Garfield1537
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Petal boots in matchy colours : )
What tack was fashionable when you started riding?
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Pixxie
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Coloured bit guards, even better if they matched the cottage craft girth. Grooming kits had to match! Always numnahs again ideally that match the girth. Jointed snaffles or kimblewicks. Cavesson noseband no attachment and.....wait for it....one waxy new Zealand rug was all anyone ever needed
FairyLights
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browbands with plastic triangle colors. Kimblewick bits. String girths and agirth called I think a lampwick. it was 2 separate pieces of broad mustard yellow webbing with a buckle at each end attached by leather.
**Vanner**
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When I first started riding in early eighties I remember the jute rugs etc.
I remember when continental gags first came in - cutely disguised as "bubble bits".
My old boy had full on matcha matcha for the nineties -red!
I remember when continental gags first came in - cutely disguised as "bubble bits".
My old boy had full on matcha matcha for the nineties -red!
Ancient Hacker
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Wow, this is really a thread to separate the "girls" from the "grannies" (No disrespect.... I am the latter!)
Tack: English leather bridles with no noseband of any kind
Leather lunge reins
Rubber snaffles
Felt numnahs that were pure wool (had to import them from England!)
Girths that were sort of hairy stuff (was it canvas or horsehair?!)
Boots on the horse - no. Bandages if you thought you were special.
And for the rider:
Velvet hats (no elastic - your mother sewed some on with leftovers from your ballet shoes, and you made sure it got lost pronto)
Bedford cords followed by "helanca" jodhs with elastic underfoot (ooh that helanca, a stretchy marvel and the envy of your friends at Pony Club, but hot as hell.... a true horror of 60s technology)
Jodhpur boots, no chaps, gaiters or any such "fanciness" - but you got "top boots" when you were old enough ie had definitely stopped growing and this was a BIG event (and expense). Black ones with a brown strip across the top, made in England and imported to the colonies. I have mine still and they are perfect.
And nothing plastic! Metal 45 gallon drums for jumps, first on their sides and then upright when you progressed (thereafter, bricks added for additional height).
Don't get me started on feed...the rigmarole of putting forage through the chaff cutter without divesting yourself of a few digits; the big molasses drum; the wooden bins for oats and maize. The time we spent mixing food then is now spent on trying to keep up with (and keep clean) the infinite variety of tack, riderwear etc that we now appear to find essential
Tack: English leather bridles with no noseband of any kind
Leather lunge reins
Rubber snaffles
Felt numnahs that were pure wool (had to import them from England!)
Girths that were sort of hairy stuff (was it canvas or horsehair?!)
Boots on the horse - no. Bandages if you thought you were special.
And for the rider:
Velvet hats (no elastic - your mother sewed some on with leftovers from your ballet shoes, and you made sure it got lost pronto)
Bedford cords followed by "helanca" jodhs with elastic underfoot (ooh that helanca, a stretchy marvel and the envy of your friends at Pony Club, but hot as hell.... a true horror of 60s technology)
Jodhpur boots, no chaps, gaiters or any such "fanciness" - but you got "top boots" when you were old enough ie had definitely stopped growing and this was a BIG event (and expense). Black ones with a brown strip across the top, made in England and imported to the colonies. I have mine still and they are perfect.
And nothing plastic! Metal 45 gallon drums for jumps, first on their sides and then upright when you progressed (thereafter, bricks added for additional height).
Don't get me started on feed...the rigmarole of putting forage through the chaff cutter without divesting yourself of a few digits; the big molasses drum; the wooden bins for oats and maize. The time we spent mixing food then is now spent on trying to keep up with (and keep clean) the infinite variety of tack, riderwear etc that we now appear to find essential