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Bling Dressage Browbands

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!

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.

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

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.

Absolutely! I really love the bling browbands. I don't do bling nosebands, otherwise it's too much bling and too little horse haha! I also really like the browbands with the ribbons and at the sides they look like tiny rosettes. I use them for jumping mainly.

I have a v shaped bling brow band for dressage and a brass clincher browband for jumpers

I ride dressage in a purple bling browband that is subtle but very pretty in the sun.

I'm not a fan of the rhinestone/bedazzled ones, but people on horses has a BEAUTIFUL brass filigree brow band. If i ever got a bling brow it would be the one from poh

I just go for ribbon on the browband of the colours that suit my chesnut I have a purple and silver ribbon and my piebald I have a blue and white wrapped ribbon. Both band have those small bling rosettes at the side cute!