English Riders / Dressage Riders: Are you using bling browbands?
I'm thinking of getting a bling browband. I ride hunt seat, obviously it wouldn't be for show. Just for fun.
Anyone else blinging their browbands?
I'm thinking of getting a bling browband. I ride hunt seat, obviously it wouldn't be for show. Just for fun.
Anyone else blinging their browbands?
Anonymous
Bling Dressage Browbands
Miss Luke
LOL! I am old school and very, very conservative. (Blame it on my being exposed to George Morris at an impressionable age!) So no, I don't "bling" at all; I school, show, hack, and fox hunt in the plainest flat tack I can find, letting the quality leather speak for itself.
However, for my birthday my husband just bought me a beautiful, dainty, padded (gulp) FANCY STITCHED show bridle!! He also bought me a hunter green with navy trim (my horse's "colors") square saddle pad -- JUST for hacking. (Before now, all my saddle pads where white with, at the most, some discrete piping along the edge.) So I guess I'm becoming the teensiest bit more flamboyant.
My sister, on the other hand, just moved up to 2nd level Dressage, and she's ALL about the bling. She rides a mare and has a pink blingy brow band which matches her pink blingy stock pin. She's also got pink bling on her saddle pad and her horse's support boots!
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My friends who do Dressage have bling brow bands. It's pretty cool. I know a girl who rides hunter/jumper/eq who has a few bling brown brads (sponsored by a really nice company who makes them). She uses them on her jumper (it's not really noticeable though) but she never uses them on her hunters or equitation horses. Those are more prestigious.
So I don't see the issue with using bling brown bands at home, but I wouldn't do it during the shows.
Pause Youth
oh yes,. bling to the max. I don't know how the judges at your Country takes it, but us dressage riders (not the way high one, but the mediums) pretty much forced the judges to like us because 3/5 wear bling at competitions xD
Samoyed
I have a few for practice in our stable colors. I love how you can personalize them. I have a v-shaped royal blue bling browband and one with a white pearl heart in the middle of it. I used to be all conservative, but I've been getting a few as presents and really like them!
For shows I like to go traditional and have a normal browband on my bridles. I might do a fancy stich, but that's about it.
Whatever suits you! It's usually personal preference.