What do you wear for lessons?

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I've always made a bit of an effort to look smart for lessons (ie leather boots, nice jods etc), but I've noticed more and more people show up in muddy chaps/boots and jeans...making me feel a bit over-dressed! So, 'fess up! what do you all wear for lessons?
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I like to look smart- normally wear smart jods, clean long boots and a horsey top and gilet. Horsey wears bandages and is always well turned out
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It annoys me when people make no effort and turn up in jeans and muckers with their horse just dragged in from the field
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Urm well considering last w-e i didn't really have time to prepare...so that doesn't count!! I wear my good jodphurs which now have a whole in them so i need a new pair!! My purple chaps and some riding boots that womeone gave me!! Not VERY smart but I stand out!! Oh and i try and wear something green so Hemir and I match!!!!
 
Never wear jeans for riding personally!

I wear a clean t-shirt (unless I've just mucked out!), jods, long boots and riding hat.

At our RS we aren't allowed to wear jeans, trainers or shorts
 
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I think you should look tidy....if you turn up with grubby tatty gear it somehow shows lack of respect for the instructor

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Hey u took the mick out of me for tiding my horse up for my lesson!
 
At college I wear some smart beeches, leather boots and gaiters with a shirt and tie but when I went for a lesson outside college I replaced my shirt and tie for my 'Bollocks to Blair' top which I had tucked in
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When I am about the yard generally I wear jods and and old tee shirt.

However for my lessons, which are at home with my YO, I make a special effort to wear clean jods, boots and chaps (clean) and a nice top. My horse is turned out well and a nice numnah.
 
It depends who the lesson is with. If its my own instructor I tend to wear what I wear a home. Jods, boots and half chaps and a jumper. When I went to pony club rallies I would always wear beige jods and a stock with my PC jumper. And if I have a lesson with a 'vistoring instructor' i tend to wear beige jods, a rugby shirt and a stock but still with my boots and half chaps. Ihate my long boots and don't particulary like riding in them.
 
im always clean, but i dont wear my really smart boots, because i ride best in my normal ones, so its mountain horse boots and chaps, but i do make sure they are clean, or at least looking 90% black! and i wear plain colours, no bright pink jods etc!
 
Depends who its with tbh.

Riding club (and when I was in the PC) I always make sure tack, boots etc were cleaned the night before, the horse was thoroughly scrubbed, hair in hairnet and smart tidy clothes for me (PC it was cream jods, shirt and pc tie and jumper).

For my lessons with Tilly with my instructor Ros I always make sure Tilly is well groomed and her stuff is not dirty but I don't clean it as such - only if it is plastered in mud. As for me, I just make sure Im wearing something clean and appropriate (sensible footwear etc). Ros is the same - clean and tidy but not "smart".

With Shirley (dressage instructor) I again make sure I am clean and tidy and perhaps a little smarter than I would be with Ros but at the same time pretty casual.

For Polo its chaps, jeans and a t-shirt/hoody. Tbh, its pretty much whatever I happen to be wearing that day with hat chaps and boots
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Oh, and I don't have a pair of jods and only 1 very expensive competion breeches to my name so for the last 18 months its been jeans, joggers of cords for riding in as I don't ride very often. However, I will be investing in some breeches now Tilly is backed.
 
For my lessons i wear, breeches, leather boots, spurs, a close fitting top with my gilet or a jumper and jacket if its colder, and my horse wears clean tack, clean saddlecloth and bandages.
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I would say i look clean and tidy and make sure i wear my black jods and boots and horse is clean as well but i dont go overboard with bandages and shirts etc.
 
boots, gaitors, navy jods normally (or beige if it's hot) and 9/10 the yard t-shirt

I hate muddy boots anyway so would never ride with them
 
I wouldn't say I'm ever very smart but I'm always clean & horse is always well presented. I'd be smart for a new instructor though, 1st impressions n' all that!
 
For my lessons at home, just everyday jods, mountain horse jod boots and chaps. If I have a lesson at the college or elsewhere, smarter jods, ariat boots and gaiters!
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will probably be absolutley slated for this but i wear jeans short boots and chaps, reason for this is that i have a lesson right after work and by the time ned is ready i simply don't have time to change
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if i was going out for a lesson i would make an effort LOL but instructor isn't worried and it makes no difference to my riding so why worry, i would feel alot worse making her wait while i faffed around changing!!!
 
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