What to wear - me and him!

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I recently bought a yearling Appaloosa and really want to do a little in hand showing next year with him, just to get him out and about and show him all the sights :)

However, am having a huge dilemma about what we can both wear!!

He is a black snowcap yearling (2 in June) with very unusual fore leg markings - pretty much exactly half black and half white, so what colour trousers am I meant to wear???

Also, does this sound appropriate for me - velvet hat with leather harness, shirt and coloured tie, tweed jacket, sensible smart shoes

For him - what sort of in hand bridle (plain, raised, stitched)? Coloured, clincher or plain brow band? Bit or lead off in hand bridle? Black or brown?

Any recommendations much appreciated for this (very excited) newbie to showing! Hot chocolate and marshmallows on offer :D
 
heres a piccy just for reference - plus hes so cute!

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Btomkins said:
I recently bought a yearling Appaloosa and really want to do a little in hand showing next year with him, just to get him out and about and show him all the sights :)

However, am having a huge dilemma about what we can both wear!!

He is a black snowcap yearling (2 in June) with very unusual fore leg markings - pretty much exactly half black and half white, so what colour trousers am I meant to wear???

Also, does this sound appropriate for me - velvet hat with leather harness, shirt and coloured tie, tweed jacket, sensible smart shoes

For him - what sort of in hand bridle (plain, raised, stitched)? Coloured, clincher or plain brow band? Bit or lead off in hand bridle? Black or brown?

Any recommendations much appreciated for this (very excited) newbie to showing! Hot chocolate and marshmallows on offer :D
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"Also, does this sound appropriate for me - velvet hat with leather harness, shirt and coloured tie, tweed jacket, sensible smart shoes" - trousers might be a good idea :D

Seriously, though, beige slacks or jodhpurs would go with what you suggest. Some handlers wear a soft trilby type hat with slacks but a hard hat is very sensible.
 
Ellen Durow said:
"Also, does this sound appropriate for me - velvet hat with leather harness, shirt and coloured tie, tweed jacket, sensible smart shoes" - trousers might be a good idea :D

Seriously, though, beige slacks or jodhpurs would go with what you suggest. Some handlers wear a soft trilby type hat with slacks but a hard hat is very sensible.
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Oops! Trousers might be good or we might get a few stares for all the wrong reasons haha... But seriously, thats my main dilemma as I know your supposed to wear black/navy with white legs and lighter colours with darker legs - but mine has both :/
 
I'd go with beige trousers with him, don't wear jods, trousers look much better!!

Make sure your shirt collar is a good, snug fit rather than baggy. Neatly tied and pinned tie

Brown gloves and a cane, useful for steering them away from you at trot!!
 
Wow, stunning! Do you just drive Or ride as well? Beautiful colouring, I'm thinking my boy is going to get much lighter as yours seems to have done :) What is his breeding?

I just loooove seeing other appys - the colours are just so individual, could stare at the all day (bit sad I know ;) )
 
Btomkins said:
Wow, stunning! Do you just drive Or ride as well? Beautiful colouring, I'm thinking my boy is going to get much lighter as yours seems to have done :) What is his breeding?

I just loooove seeing other appys - the colours are just so individual, could stare at the all day (bit sad I know ;) )
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Thanks :) I've had him 3yrs now and he's been hard work but worth every minute - I couldnt be without him now. I don't drive and never knew he could do it either! I bought him as a recently backed riding pony of 14hh. Then he grew up and out and turned into a 14.3hh barrell! I contacted the breeder because he's riggy and she sent me a lot of photos of him and his family. The picture of him being driven was one of the ones she sent me.

He's not a proper appy even though he's shaped like one. His mum was TB x New forest. His dad was out of an ID sire and appy x anglo arab dam (she was a leopard spot). Therefore he's only a little bit appy even though in every way he looks and acts like one - except when he's showing off, then the arab comes out!
 
No trust me the showing off is all Appy :D
I do like the OP's boy, I would use a havana bridle, as thin as possible, and would keep the tack pretty plain, he has enough colour of his own :) If you decide later to show him ridden as a riding horse, then a coloured brow band would be good.
 
FestiveG said:
No trust me the showing off is all Appy :D
I do like the OP's boy, I would use a havana bridle, as thin as possible, and would keep the tack pretty plain, he has enough colour of his own :) If you decide later to show him ridden as a riding horse, then a coloured brow band would be good.
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Thats what I was thinking - I don't want the over all picture to be too 'confusing' with too much going on as he is so colourful, I just have a penchant for coloured browbands and would love to indulge but will wait until he is older and can be entered in ridden classes. I was thinking a raised thin in hand bridle with no fuss, but not a rolled one as I think these are only meant for Arabs...or am I getting that completely wrong?

Thank you all for the advice, all very useful!! :)
 
If you are showing in Appy classes, it is pretty much what suits your horse. My girl did ok at the northern show, unplaited and with her tail unpulled or plaited. This look would not go down well at other shows, but the Appy people understand that what suits your horse best, may not be the absolute traditional look. :)
 
kellybee said:
I never knew that about appys :) Do they all do it?

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And having totally hijacked your thread, I'll go add you to my friends and keep a keen eye out for more pics of your boy :D
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They don't all 'flag', but they are all sure that everyone is there to look at just them :D Appy shows are also the noisiest that ever happened! They seem to all have deep voices and just about all of them call to let people know that the party can start because they have arrived! My mare does it at all parties, and both her and the previous girl were/are the most vocal horses I have ever met :D
 
FestiveG said:
They don't all 'flag', but they are all sure that everyone is there to look at just them :D Appy shows are also the noisiest that ever happened! They seem to all have deep voices and just about all of them call to let people know that the party can start because they have arrived! My mare does it at all parties, and both her and the previous girl were/are the most vocal horses I have ever met :D
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Oh, yes he's a squealer! I've never known a horse so vocal. I thought it was just because he's riggy! The day we moved to the new place he called when he got off the trailer and the sound echoed all about the fields before coming back - I wish I'd got it on camera... he was like "Who TF said that?!"
 
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