What do you wear to a clinic/lesson?

[PnO]

I've got a showjumping clinic next weekend with event rider Claire Lomas. I've never had a lesson with such an experienced rider and don't want to look silly (my horse is good enough at making me look silly without me turning up looking like unprepared and scruffy!). My question..what do you guys wear, horse and rider, when going for a clinic?

Thanks x

 

[_jetset_]

When I first went to one, I made sure I was neat and looked 'matching'... However, now it just has to be whatever breeches are clean

 

[sea_view]

I would wear smart, breeches, t shirt/top with gillet, boots and gaiters.

Horse - usually my black sheepskin numnah and black clarendons

 

[kirstyfk]

Wear the tack you normally wear. Make sure it is clean and safe. Rider wise clean jods, polished boots and a polo shirt/ rugby shirt/ jumper depending on the weather. So it shouldn't be too different from what you wear day to day.

Have fun at your lesson.

 

[Lou_Lou123]

I once hacked to a Jeanette Brakewell clinic as it was at a yard five mins from where my horse was at the time, and so I wore my flourescent tabard as I always do on the road and she laughed at me and made me take it off because she said it was too distracting! Probably not very helpful!

Aside from that I just wore what I would school him in at home, and normal tack/ boots that he would wear for jumping at home.

 

[PnO]

Thanks, Obviously he will go in his jumping tack and I'll give it a good clean. Just wondering if you went in competition breeches and a nice polo shirt ect or just normal coloured breeches x

 

[glitterfuzz]

I wear the same as I would to ride at home, its not a show and "pretty clothes" and a scrubbed pony wont make it go any better!

 

[FigJam]

I make sure I'm clean and smart and horse is clean and smart. Doesn't have to be biege/white breeches etc, but it's personal preference. Always wear my proper leather gaiters rather than suede half chaps.

Have fun!

 

[diggerbez]

i'm the scruffiest person i know so will usually make slightly more effort- so i'd try and be vaguely colour co-ordinating (i.e. not pink tshirt and red gillet) and vaguely clean but thats about it. i wouldn't wear beige/white jods or anything that looks overly like show stuff as my trainer friend thinks this is hysterical when people do this....

how about:
navy/black breeches, nice polo and a matching gilet or lightweight jacket. just be aware that you will be working hard and so might get warm so dress accordingly as you don't want to be wasting time taking your coat off or whatever....

 

[CrazyMare]

As my mare is nearly white, she is bathed, but she is bathed for normal lessons too.

Clean breeches, boots, top, with clean tack and bandages for pony.

It might not make her go better, but it does make it look like I've made the effort, as I expect them to make some effort in teaching me!

 

[digitalangel]

having a grey i scrub off what poo stains i can, wear clean jods, leather gaiters and boots and gillet and long sleeved top, and make sure my tack is clean. horse wears what he usually wears ut a clean saddlecloth is a must hehe

 

[PnO]

Diggerbez I too am quite scruffy, I try not to be and my horse is always turned out immaculately but I sometimes let the side down lol I havn't brought a new pair of jods in good knows how long!! So they are all faded and I just think my competiton breeches would look nicer. But I think I have a nice navy pair somewhere that I'll wear with a polo shirt.

 

[diggerbez]

well there you go- for your birthday/xmas ask for some really nice jods/breeches (cavallos or whatever) and save them for lessons and clinics

 

[PnO]

Yes I think some new breeches will defo be on the christmas list...along with lots of other stuff! Thanks x

 

[amandaco2]

usually go dressed smart- like to wear light breeches and smart coat/gillet/polo.
and ned clean, if time plaited.
like to make an effort

 

[FrodoBeutlin]

Coloured breeches (navy or brown) and a polo. Nice saddlecloth and matching bandages, but not white. Sometimes I plait sometimes I don't.

 

[PucciNPoni]

I always like to turn out smartly as I can without going OTT. Clean boots for me and horse, horse brushed and well groomed (no shavings, mud clinging to her). I tend to wear a collared shirt and gilet weather dependent. I wear my show boots and leather gaiters (but not my show gaiters cos they're a pain). My RI often comments on the turn out. She certainly notices if we're not (I wore DMs to a lesson and she slagged me for it - tee hee - so next time I put a mirror polish on my riding boots to blind her with).

 

[millitiger]

i wear my long boots, smart grey cavallos, polo shirt and a gillet.

pony wears normal tack (but clean!) and if dressage they wear white boots, if sj leather open fronted all around.

 

[TallyHo123]

I wear navy breeches with quite a tight fitting polo top and maybe a gillet.
Polish my boots and wear my smart hat.

If flatwork horsie wears navy saddle cloth and navy bandages.

 

[MandyMoo]

tbh im rather scruffy normally

i ride in jeans and hoodies and boots and chaps...lol

so when i go for lessons i wear nice clean jods, my smart ariat long boots, a joules type top and my posher hat that i compete in

just so i look presentable...

i dont bother with white jods for lessons though.. xx