When you see tweed what do you think?

G&T said:
Agree with this! I think black *can* look a bit 'Essex girl'... (waits with bated breath for arrival of Essex-dweller lynch mob)

Whereas tweed is very smart in all situations!
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Essex-dwelling lynch mob here! Pah, snuffle, grumble - alright I admit I'm a fraud and I live in London, but my horse lives in Essex. I iron my long blonde hair before I SJ and make sure it's hanging straight as a die down my back. Hairnet? Whaddat?
 
I have a tweed jacket and beige jods which I wear for everything because I can only afford one jacket!
I figured you have to wear tweed for showing and all the other stuff anything goes really so may aswell buy a tweed and wear it for - showing, DR, SJ, etc etc...but now getting more into dressage and am eyeing up black jackets and white jods!
 
jnb said:
I know the original comment was about SJing......but

*ahem!* My tweed cost £225....but then I don't SJ, I show.
Conversely, if you see a black jacket in a show ring, you think -incorrect!
IMO Black jacket = £35 from Shires
Tweed jacket = £200+ from Pretty Ponies/Designer Browbands etc.
We showing people are strange, I guess!
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Not always the case - there are some cheap and nasty tweed jackets out there too - usually blue/grey.
 
marmalade76 said:
Not always the case - there are some cheap and nasty tweed jackets out there too - usually blue/grey.
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Traditionally blue tweeds where cheaper to make so the 'lower classes'
Green/brown tweeds where more expensive to make. Still I think even if a blue and green tweed are the same price, the green one looks nicer!

marmalade76-thank god someone agrees with me!
 
I wear tweed to most things as I perfer it. I have a navy showjumping jacket that I wear occassionally. They are both Lucinda Green and are very smart and were expensive.

I got told the other day that it was incorrect to wear tweed, to which I hotly replied that that was ridiculous and that tweed was traditional hunting dress etc.
The other person then said that when they were doing riding club eventing years ago no one ever wore tweed and she thought that that was because it wasn't allowed.
 
When I see tweed I think old fashioned. I'd rather have my wind proof lightweight new style material any day!

The prevalence of tweed and looking like you are trussed up to go to dinner makes our horse sport even more detached from the public!

No wonder we cannot get decent sponsorship and you can win more hitting a golf ball badly than winning Badminton
 
From a non persons POV - my OH says he likes watching WH etc due to it being traditional and due to the tweed action! ... chaps in bowlers, people in tweed and ties with coloured jods to match (no white! white and tweed.... bad look!) and horses all looking swish and plaited. He says it has much more sense of occasion than the other events he gets dragged alot too!

As for sponsorship - Golf if the most popular sport on the planet with Tiger woods being the worlds best know sportsman (even before his recent affairs!) and thats why it draws more sponsorship, its not due to lack of tweed.
 
Sol said:
You do seem to have some bizarre obsession with tweed & eventers though...... hmmmm
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yes, original poster does seem to have some strange obsessions :confused:

marmalade76 said:
You should NEVER wear white jods with tweed - no matter what colour tweed!
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i agree completely!!! white jods only go with black jacket IMO. tweed must go with beige jods... white + tweed = NO NO
 
I'm really sorry and I don't want to type this as I really don't wish to offend anyone!! but I will!- rather random but when I see tweed I see "Compo" in the Last Of The Summer Wine !!!! -
I actually think though tweed for eventing/showing can look smart!
 
It doesn't really register in my brian if I am honest as what other people are wearing doesn't bother me. I personally think tweed looks smart, I much prefer wearing my tweed jacket than my navy jacket.

I keep my tweed for eventing and pony club rallies. My navy jacket is worn when I am competing in pure dressage or showjumping. The best of both worlds :p
 
In show jumping days mainly wore tweed but also had a black polyester jacket for those days when it pours with rain and you don't want to ruin the dry clean only tweed. I used to think eventer when you saw the person with the stock rather than collar and tie and the crash helmet rather than "velvet cap" [we are talking the 80s and 90s here peeps so pre bling and pre the latest show jumping caps]. Also used to think eventer when person had a double barrelled surname or was the "Honourable....." Yes at our local affiliated and unaffilated centre, there was someone who used to use her title.

I have an beautiful tweed showing jacket which I love but don't currently wear but which I won't sell because it is so lovely (and cost a lot of money).
 
HotToTrot said:
Essex-dwelling lynch mob here! Pah, snuffle, grumble - alright I admit I'm a fraud and I live in London, but my horse lives in Essex. I iron my long blonde hair before I SJ and make sure it's hanging straight as a die down my back. Hairnet? Whaddat?
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Teehee! Don't forget to fake tan to extreme to set off the starched blonde locks! Actually I love the sexy horserider look; I have beeen known to ride in hipster jods with a low-cut skintight top on sexy young instructor days... :rolleyes:
 
HotToTrot said:
Essex-dwelling lynch mob here! Pah, snuffle, grumble - alright I admit I'm a fraud and I live in London, but my horse lives in Essex. I iron my long blonde hair before I SJ and make sure it's hanging straight as a die down my back. Hairnet? Whaddat?
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You are a FRAUD!! Your horse lives in Essex, yet you event, live in notoriously tweed-free London and have a law-degree? Pffft, no amount of patent-topped boots/pink Kingsland shirts/John Whitaker tack/Animo couture will EVER make you a proper Essex show jumper!*

(*My horse lives in Essex too, and I showjump (very badly) so I have the right to take the P, being statistically part of the Essex-dwelling lynch-mob.) :-D

You are probably a socialist/liberal as well, and opposed to blood sports. *purses lips a la cats-bum in disgust*
 
I have chuckled my way through this thread :) especially at all the comments on tweeds costing £250 and black jackets costing £25-£30 lol

Clearly the last black jacket I bought was over priced...

http://www.joshuajonesuk.com/products_list.asp?id=1&showcat=yes&Title=

damn it, must remember when wearing black your only suppose to spend £25-£30 lol

answer to the original question....

yes guilty, sat at the SJ today, someone came in the ring wearing breastplate with sheepskin, tweed, skull cap with a bobble on the hat cover and I did think eventer... I will try not to in future ;)
 
I have a rather sad obsession with looking "correct" for each discipline. I now have 4 show jackets, two expensive tweed showing selection ones ( in colours to match the horses depending on what I'm on), a green Whitaker sj jacket ( to fit in withe the boing crowd and my bullet shaped sj hat) and a smart black hunt coat for errrrr hunting. Tbh I normally would pick one of the tweeds out of choice, they are cut better and are very smart. I hate these animo jackets that are in fashion, mainly as everyone seems to buy them a size too small and looks reduculous! Anyway, it's our first day of cubbing tomorrow so my yearly summer flirtation with bs can come to an end and I can get on with some proper riding.
 
jnb said:
I know the original comment was about SJing......but

*ahem!* My tweed cost £225....but then I don't SJ, I show.
Conversely, if you see a black jacket in a show ring, you think -incorrect!
IMO Black jacket = £35 from Shires
Tweed jacket = £200+ from Pretty Ponies/Designer Browbands etc.
We showing people are strange, I guess!
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Ditto this! lol :)

And I have mine from hunting....just automatically grab it now as so used to wearing it out. Plus, I generally mainly do showing and any SJ I happen to do is 'extra' and links straight on from my classes so I generally just have to go straight from one, canter round the showground like a headless chicken to the other rings and into my jump round. No time for a drink or even tack change...so show saddle, double and ribbon browband it is for our SJ! *GaspShockHorror* LOL :p
 
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K27 said:
rather random but when I see tweed I see "Compo" in the Last Of The Summer Wine !!!!
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PMSL!!!!

Tweed reminds me of Pony Club and BHS exams, and definitely doesn't look right with white jodhpurs. If I notice someone wearing tweed at a BD comp I woud probably assume that they show or event, but as long as you look smart and are turned out correctly I don't think it matters what you are wearing - its all about how correctly your horse goes or whether or not you get over all the jumps isn't it??!!
 
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I think either someone old fashioned or someone like me who can only afford one jacket and went for tweed because it's not actually incorrect for anything even if it's not what people usually wear for that discipline.
 
jnb said:
I know the original comment was about SJing......but

*ahem!* My tweed cost £225....but then I don't SJ, I show.
Conversely, if you see a black jacket in a show ring, you think -incorrect!
IMO Black jacket = £35 from Shires
Tweed jacket = £200+ from Pretty Ponies/Designer Browbands etc.
We showing people are strange, I guess!
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i don't know many people on the sj circuit with £35 jackets!! more £300-£500 animo, equiport, joshua jones!!
 
if you are so busy watching what others are wearing, then who is concentrating on riding your horse?? maybe this is why our "sport" is so unpopular with the general public, that we are all so bothered with what to wear, and not about actually concentrating on the sport its self!
 
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