On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Skye and Sally ~Fire Island <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think a lot of us have illusions while riding....when I rode western style with my appy I had a different type of feeling......I would put eagle and hawk feathers on her sparse mane with really cool blankets and dipped my hand in paint and take her out on the trail......riding gives some of us a connection to something in the past , the future, whatever it is we desire to connect to. >
i always thought it would be cool for a parade to go to goodwill and get a wedding dress with a long long veil to hang over the horse's rear end and paint my teeth black and big black circles under my eyes and make a circlet of plastic peanuts to wear as a crownpiece around my head and the horse's forelock, hang bats from the bridle browband on each side. I dont know what in my past that would connect me to but I always thought that would be very cool. I also thought it would be cool to dress a horse that is very very immediately obviously NOT an arabian in full arabian ethnic show native costume. But they are expensive. I have seen drapery dingle balls that could pass for an arabian breast collar tho. But would that be cool?? Jaspar so tall and big spanish head would be cool like that or trausti so obviously a pony, wouldnt he look cool dressed as a show arabian in native costume? And I could wear a mata hari diaphonous gown or belly dancer suit with a veil riding in the parade. another cool thing would be to actually enter a horse show, like a walking horse show in some versatility class, dressed exactly like an english rider would dress in like the 1800s. With those jodhpurs made of khaki cotton with big bloomer thighs and tall boots. or in a parade dressed exactly like scarlett ohara's daughter bonny blue riding her pony... that would be cool. Another fun thing would be to paint your horse like a cow and dress like a milk maid. or wear a beekeeper suit and paint your horse like a bumblebee. I am just full of these connections to the past it seems... i have many pasts apparently. another fun thing altho I cant say it is in my past, is you could dress like a hooker and have your horse look like a pimp, or vice versa. and before you laugh just remember, if you go back thru the archives on the gaitedlist you will find an old post where I went on a trail ride with some strangers from tallahassee, rich redneck women with expensive maicures etc and one had on , inexplicably, with no explanation whatsoever, a crushed velver pimp costume, including hat with long bright yellow plume, and when I asked were we supposed to be in costume she snapped irritably "I asked those guys to and they said they would but here I am the only one!!" they drank whiskey out of a flask at 7 AM and it was 18 degrees that day and I was almost killed when they took off at a gallop with no warning and when I threw stonewall into a one rein stop cause my foot went thru the stirrup and I knew when he jumped from the next hilltop as he had done the last I would fall and be dragged to my death, so in the one rein stop he whirled and actually hit a tree so hard it knocked his breath out and I was saved. So yes, costumes are something some are drawn too... i know I am. I even dressed my cats and easter chicks in doll clothes as a child. I scotch taped barbie hi heels to my easter chicks feet and put little scarves around their necks so they looked like isadore duncan.. janice -- even good horses have bad days sometimes.
