What do you think of the 'riding' fashion?

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I'm sure most of you have noticed this new "horse riding" fashion going around in highstreet shops.
Jodhs, ankle boots, long boots and even those quilted jackets and show shirts!

I don't know if this is me being "hipster" (You know, 'I wore this BEFORE it was cool) but it really annoys me!

You can always tell a horse rider, from someone who's just following the fashion...they don't have muddy boots!

I usually try and ignore these things, but while out watching some Xmas festivities, I noticed nearly everyone wearing it! I really wanted to say "Oh, nice jodhs, where do you keep your horse?"


Anyway, what do you think?
 
Oh it winds me up terribly! When I was a kid I used to wear my show jacket to school (not because I couldn't afford any other clothes, my parents just couldn't get me out of it), and people used to try and take the mick out of me but I didn't car, because I looked spiffy and cool :cool: ...

Now I saw one of the girls who used to try and take the mick out of me the other day wearing "chap" like boots, and all I could think was at least mine have a function, you idiot! :rolleyes:
 
Funnny how fashion cycles - I remember my brothers girlfriend - now wife of many years running off with my black jodhs - they certainly fitted her better than me - but for her they were the ultimate in fashion statement.
 
CAN'T STAND IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have started picking out the faults! "Oh that hem line would be really uncomfortable if you rode in them!" "Those boots don't have enough heel"

ARGH!!!!

(P.S...I work in fashion!!!!)
 
It irritates me immensely.....although you can tell a mile off they ain't horsey people due to the lack of mud and urine aroma.....to me it looks like people playing 'dress-up'......

I saw Gok do something a while ago with some cream leggings....he cut some brown patches and sewed them on supposedly to look like the strappings on breeches.....but he put them over the knees- on the front:D:D My non-horsey teenage son was in hysterics......
 
I saw someone in a black quilted barbour jacket, black skinny jeans and shiny black hunter wellies with a sort of heel, I was like :eek: :eek: :eek:

They were quite.... Well..... Chavvy? I hate how horsey clothes are now chav's favourite !
 
I just don't get it tbh!! I would feel a proper fool going shopping in beige jods and avoid it like the plague! And short boots with no chaps, really? I'm clearly far to removed from fashion to get it at all! I do love the quilted/wax type fashionable jackets since I managed to pick one up that I absolutly love from Primark - ace and waaaay cheaper than Barbour et al!
 
Nicer to know that when I slog down to the shops in my grubby horse gear, boots and chaps, people will in fact think I am trend setter. Cool. I wouldn't be seen dead in a pair of leggings or skinny jeans but somehow don't mind going public in jodphurs.

Saw someone the other day going to work with shiny black boots with metal spurs on them (but no actual spurs in the back, if you know what I mean). She'll never get her hoss moving in them, I thought!
 
Glad I'm not the only one, I was beginning to think I was!

The only thing I've been remotely tempted by is some 'chaps' which had the Leslie Tartan (my clan) but they wouldn't have lasted 5mins around an actual horse.

Untill I wore my black dublins out for a walk with the dog (I don't ride in them, I stick to ankle boots and chaps) I'm sure everyone must have thought I was following the fashion, they were spotless and lovely! I had to sort that out of course :P
 
Chavs have spoiled Burberry, their now wearing hunter wellies and Barbour.

How will we be able to distingush between the two cultures? Oh yeah..... Cheap perfume vs Horse aroma.:cool:
 
I like it as it means we can walk around and not stick out like a sore thumb. Though in Tesco the other day a lady came up to me and asked me where i got my "very cool boots" from. I was like "ermmm a tack shop" and she said "ooo whats that? A vintage shop???"

Needless to say i burst out laughing and thought bless her cottons.
 
ThePony said:
I just don't get it tbh!! I would feel a proper fool going shopping in beige jods and avoid it like the plague! And short boots with no chaps, really? I'm clearly far to removed from fashion to get it at all! I do love the quilted/wax type fashionable jackets since I managed to pick one up that I absolutly love from Primark - ace and waaaay cheaper than Barbour et al!
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Totally agree :P
Especially the jods, ankle boots and no chaps! Reminds me of awkward lessons when I was younger and had stick thin legs, made worse by my lack of chaps...yuk!

I told a lie, I was tempted by the jackets too :P Purely because I need a new one and can't afford £100+!!
 
Annielusian said:
Untill I wore my black dublins out for a walk with the dog (I don't ride in them, I stick to ankle boots and chaps) I'm sure everyone must have thought I was following the fashion, they were spotless and lovely! I had to sort that out of course :P
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Also this- bought some new Ariats from Olympia and going to a new yard on riday and dont want them to think im a little fashion follower!! *Goes off to jump in a few puddles and catch horse in field*
 
Can't see the problem myself - isn't imitation the most sincere form of flattery??? Anyway, surely I can't be the only person who remembers when the riding look was high fashion in the 1990s? I've always worn my joddy boots as ordinary shoes, and my tweed show jacket has received much admiration over the years. Well, having paid £100 for it 16 years ago, it needs to earn its keep.
 
I kind of like the quilted jackets......

I was amused last year, when it was all country chic, and the girl who used to share one of my ponies text me to say that she had gone out with her friends at Uni, and they all raved about her jacket.....it was her tweed show jacket, second hand from our local tack shop, complete with half a pack of polos still in the pocket and pony snot down the arm!
 
I cant stand it! QUILTED JACKETS are for horse people!!
What annoys me the most is the fact that places like newlook make cheap tacky ones that look really bad because they are in fashion and everyone is wearing them!
Also gilets!! my non-horsey friends the other day game over wering gilets, "I have got three now", she said. -Well I have 5 and I have had them for 3 years!
I cant stand it, if this was a year ago and we turned up with our jodpurs, tucked in T-shirt and jackets on we would havew been laughed at!!
We are the trend setters,(horsey people) but they just think we are the followers and they know it all about jackets and boots!(non horsey people)
 
When out buying a wedding dress for my daughter we came across.......

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Would love to see her walk across my field in those heels
 
Ringworm the Red Nosed Reindeer said:
Chavs have spoiled Burberry, their now wearing hunter wellies and Barbour.

How will we be able to distingush between the two cultures? Oh yeah..... Cheap perfume vs Horse aroma.:cool:
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Now you say that, but apparently according to an article on the BBC, knock-off designer perfume often has horse pee as its base, so actually there might not be that much difference in smell:D
 
I've got a purpule joules quilted jacket that my Mum bought for me 3 christmases ago now - I wear it ALL the time - I can wear it at the yard and to work ( which is good as I go on my way to work) and it has taken some serious hammering including camp fire scars , so imagine my shock when I was in a posh suberb gift shop doing some Chrismas browsing of stuff I can't afford when a lady not only paid me a compliment but offered to buy it off me !! Not a chance would I part with it !!!

I'm not sure I like the copy cat chav style but I'm still not giving away my fave coat !
 
c2b said:
When out buying a wedding dress for my daughter we came across.......

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Would love to see her walk across my field in those heels
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I often sport a similar look, but normally when I am midway between changing from horsey stuff to office wear, in the barn...........
 
Brandy said:
Actually, what is REALLY funny, is that you took a photo!!!
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Exactly...

I feel really old now, but the riding look has been in and out as often as I clean my tack, so I fail to get wound up by it. I don't really see that it matters - except that I might manage to walk into town and not stick out for once :rolleyes:

Fashion is something that the rest of the world seems to get excited about. For me, getting ready to go out is really just a question of scraping the very worst of the mud off :cool:
 
c2b said:
When out buying a wedding dress for my daughter we came across.......

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Would love to see her walk across my field in those heels
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That's wonderful! :D

I suppose none of you are old enough to remember the same trend in the '70s? I remember going out in a 'hacking jacket' and my grandad's flat cap! (maybe 1974) I thought I was the bees knees!

Funny though - I don't mind being out and about in jodhs & boots, but wouldn't be seen dead in skin tight leggins! What's the diff?
 
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