Zipping up my flame suit.... SOMEONE has to say it..... here it goes.........

[naters]

Zipping up my flame suit.... SOMEONE has to say it..... here it goes.........


Rust Breeches = EEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWW


Whew. I feel much better now that I have gotten that off of my chest. :D




(.............ducking and running!)

[Parker_Rider]

LOL, I totally thought this too until I saw a COTHer's absolutely adorable little girl in them w/ a navy jacket...
So I had to get some... :) we'll see if I hate them when they come in (because I am not as cute as that little girl). But I definitely understand why you would think that!!

[Dun Ciarain]

All I have to say is that the last time rust breeches were popular, so were green, yellow and dark brown appliances :lol::lol:

[mvp]

If so, you can look HOT while remaining protected.

Maybe you are too young to appreciate rust.

Maybe you don't have "butt candy" (and thigh candy?) that makes rust a good idea for both the wearer and the beholder. Love those terms, which I learned here.

To each his/her skinny or fat, young or old own.

[Wellspotted]

Back in the 60s they were very popular and looked fantastic! Especially with a matching horse. ;)

Tastes change, buff stays the same.

[City Ponies]

I'd much rather have rust over baby puke green, that was all the rage in the mid 90's. I happily stuck with my "off-beige" TS for many years, and will continue to do so b/c I personally think that, and white, look classic. Just like I'm sticking with my CO Hampton, and Dark Grey jacket and white shirt. I love the classic look. Rust is A-OK in my book though, I own a pair, though I'd never show in it, it'd clash with my horses. LOL.

[CenterStage123]

my flame suits on too...

I acctually think rust looks really bad. I'm sorry but I don't understand what all of you guys see in them.:confused: And also what shows do you se people wearing them at?? I show almost every weekend and have never seen them in the show ring. The exceptions being on COTH and my one friend who ripped her breeches on the first day of and over night show and her only back-up pair were her mom's old rusts from the eighties. Needless to say we were all making fun if them including her.:lol:

[WorthTheWait95]

I love rust for schooling or in the jumper ring but really hate it in the hunter ring. My problem with it is that I don't think there is a hunt coat made that doesn't clash with them or just look plain weird. I find the overrall look of rust breeches, a ratcatcher and hunt coat to look really busy and distracting. It could just be that I'm only 20 and wasn't alive when they were popular last but I just can't seem to wear them with anything other then a white or very pale yellow polo. I really do love my schooling pair, though.

[GettingBack]

I love 'em because I'm old school, and an adult. Trust me, you do not want to see me in puke-green/beige. I don't want to see me in puke-green/beige. :D

[Calling Duck]

Sue Sisco, in SE Pennsy (Sunfield Farm) has worn rust britches for years (at the local shows). When she's not showing greenies at the local level, she does the International Hunter Futurity, and is a sidesaddle queen. So she knows her outfits. No one is more obsessed with turn-out than those side saddle gals. I dare anyone to go up to her and tell her she looks old fashioned in her rustys at the local level. She can ride the pants off of anyone, no matter what color they are.

I wonder if all of us yapping about rustys aren't harkening back to our more youthful days: when we were skinny, the jumps weren't scary, and we all braided in light blue yarn for our chestnut ponies (or at least I did!) We only THINK we look skinny in rust. Just like black. Black on me...makes me look like a fat chick, wearing black. But in my mind, ooh, I'm walking the runway.

[xabbracadabra]

I'm with you. I HATE, HATE, HATE the rust. I think it looks horrible and is so hard to match anything with but I also hate the green hunt coats (even though green is my favorite color). I love the non-puke green breeches with a nice brown or grey coat

[Trixie]

I wonder if all of us yapping about rustys aren't harkening back to our more youthful days: when we were skinny, the jumps weren't scary, and we all braided in light blue yarn for our chestnut ponies (or at least I did!) We only THINK we look skinny in rust. Just like black. Black on me...makes me look like a fat chick, wearing black. But in my mind, ooh, I'm walking the runway.

:lol:

I personally think beige breeches are just not cute. I wear them, sure, but for about 90% of females, wearing skin tight beige pants in a material kind of akin to saran wrap is severely unflattering.

[neigh.neigh]

i definitely agree!!!!!
that color goes with NOTHING!
ewwww

[enjoytheride]

Urband legend states that breeches were rust because back in the day feminine products were not as reliable. :eek::eek:

[Queen Latisha]

I happen to love rust breeches. Not only do I like the look, but rust doesn't show the dirt as much. This way when I fall off in the schooling ring, I don't have to worry.:D

[hijumpin1]

I'm just tired of a new rust thread every day. Let's move on now to something different, pretty please? Why not canary breeches, new trend-of-the-day?

[eclipse]

It's ok, I too cannot understand why people like them!! LOL

[dab]

I like rust, but like taupe even more -- I think it hides the dirt as well and is more flattering --

[Ibex]

Everytime I see them I have horrible flashbacks to my first "real" breeches - horrible slippery nylon breeches, that also happened to be rust.

Thanks but no!

[Queen Latisha]

I'm just tired of a new rust thread every day. Let's move on now to something different, pretty please? Why not canary breeches, new trend-of-the-day?


Oh no, not canary.....that color is butt ugly.:eek:

[seeuatx]

Better than "Beige" that makes it look like some one puked in your lap :dead:. I'd love to know who decided THAT was an attractive color.

[flogarty]

I don't like rust. If the TS rust was more brown-ish, and not so RED it might be ok.

[superpony123]

I'm just tired of a new rust thread every day. Let's move on now to something different, pretty please? Why not canary breeches, new trend-of-the-day?

actually, i totally want a pair of canary breeches. they would probably look awful on me though. however, i'm getting a pair of rust ts supremes :D

[GettingBack]

I wonder if all of us yapping about rustys aren't harkening back to our more youthful days: when we were skinny, the jumps weren't scary, and we all braided in light blue yarn for our chestnut ponies (or at least I did!) We only THINK we look skinny in rust. Just like black. Black on me...makes me look like a fat chick, wearing black. But in my mind, ooh, I'm walking the runway.

Pffffftttttttt! YES! It may indeed be that. And I want ulsters, and petal bellboots and a big ol' flat saddle :D

Pretty please?

[twofatponies]

Peanut gallery speaking. I have no involvement in H/J.

But I can't help but notice that for reasons far beyond my ability to ever comprehend, "rust breeches" is creating about six new threads a day. It boggles the mind how the topic could possibly be that interesting. (I'm teasing!) ;)

Now back to your regular program...

[Instant Karma]

Rust is definately a big nono in my book.

[buck22]

please somebody post some photos of good professional looking show turnout with rust breeches.. please... all the photos I've seen so far rust looks nearly salmon and hard to match too... I'd love to see some pix of really dashing looking turnout!

[Valeureux]

i'll take rust over puke-green any day. :)

[lcw579]

All I have to say is that the last time rust breeches were popular, so were green, yellow and dark brown appliances :lol::lol:

:lol::lol::lol:
Yep, rust is what dear old mom wore back in the dark ages - I will oficially be an old lady if I buy a pair so no rust for me! I also don't remember anyone showing in them - they were for schooling only IIRRC.

[Kementari]

I didn't like rust the first time around, either.

Nor, for the record, puke green. :eek:

[Ready2Ride]

I loved showing in my rust Jods when I was little! I hated my hunter green coat though, and shudder when I see people showing in hunter green show coats. I also used to show in grey breeches when I moved up to tall boots. I never see grey breeches anymore. :(

[WorthTheWait95]

I loved showing in my rust Jods when I was little! I hated my hunter green coat though, and shudder when I see people showing in hunter green show coats. I also used to show in grey breeches when I moved up to tall boots. I never see grey breeches anymore. :(

My grey TS breeches are my absolute favorites to school in. If I was still showing in the hunters (or at all!) I would seriously consider showing in them. I have two pairs of the charcoals and two pairs of the ash grey (as well as multiples of several other colors :uhoh:). They seem to be the most flattering of the colors...those and my mocha pair.

[Foxtrot's]

...you can unzip your flame suit now - I could never see the attractiveness of puke green breeches/navy jacket. However -- on a certain gentleman they are kind of expected.

[OnyxThePony]

Oh yeaaaahhhh sister. Rust= blech! Apologies to the adorable little girl posted on the other thread.

I guess rust were really gone by the time I started showing.. I never got em the first time, although I will school in just about anything. Red, even, or brown. But.. rust...hmmmmm, NO.

[FlashGordon]

Why are popular breech colors such ugly shades??

Rust and puke green... blech to both.

I swear I am rocking light grey breeches next time I show. Will look lovely with my grey/lavender windowpane coat. (now I just need a horse to show! ;) )

[snaffle635]

I don't like rust. If the TS rust was more brown-ish, and not so RED it might be ok.

Totally agree! I am NOT a fan of the TS Rust. Rust should be really dark, not bright orangey.

[slight]

Hey - when I was wearing rust breeches it was the 70's - and as another poster mentioned: Appliances were either avacado green or harvest gold. Carpet was still shag (they even sold carpet rakes).

I was listening to David Bowie and wearing REALLY wide bell bottoms.

Old, and happy to be here :lol::lol:

[Paint Hunter/Jumper]

I think it looks good on some people, but i don't think i will EVER wear a pair. Not my type :)

[Seven-up]

Ok, I was made in the 70's and I can't stand 'em. Strangely enough, my folks do still have the avocado green dryer. They've had it for longer than they've had me.:eek:

[victoriAH!]

How about plaid breeches?

I love my greenish plaid breeches, for schooling only of course though. Next pair will be the blue plaid. :)

[Lori]

I grew up with rust and LOVE it. :) I like light grey, too, but not the puke green - blech.

[GettingBack]

Totally agree! I am NOT a fan of the TS Rust. Rust should be really dark, not bright orangey.

That is true, the TS rust is a good deal more orangey than I remember. Rust (in my albeit rusty - har har - memory) was almost like the clay of decent pottery. Not quite pumpkin.

These are not mine (not male) but they looked a lot like this:
Rust Breeches (http://horsetopia.horse-for-sale.org/local/products-and-tack/l254340?nearby=true)

[buck22]

now that is a nice color! a real earthy clay rust, like, well, real rust :) what I've been seeing lately is pushing too close to the salmon family for my taste... those, however, are lovely.

[Cookiewoo]

They go for months without washing...

[2bayboys]

I just don't understand all the fuss! I hate GPAs, so I don't wear them. Can't stand extra bling on spurs and stirrups, so I don't have any. I couldn't care less if everybody else and their mothers sport GPA helmets and rhinestone accessories.

I love rust, grew up wearing it, can still wear the same breeches I wore to ride my large pony, so I do wear the rust when I'm in the mood.

[MistyBlue]

I still love rust...hides dirt better. Some of the beiges and buffs make people look nekked from the waist down...and there's many people I don't want to picture nekked, LOL! But those colors do go better with more shirts and jackets.
I also miss the greys...light dove grey breeches with a charcoal grey jacket and a pale blue shirt....looked smashing! That was one of my show outfits way back when...with newer black helmet and black boots.
Other outfits were either rust breeches, navy jacket and white or blue shirt with either brown or black boots. (wore the older schooling helmet with the oxblood boots...well worn helmets turned rusty brown)
And buff breeches, navy jacket, pinstriped or blue shirt and brown boots and helmet. I still LOVE the look of brown boots...cordovan and oxblood.
Things I do NOT miss/like...stock pins and madras jackets and canary anything. Who the hell invented madras jackets anyways? For a short while there we all looked like Austin Powers or like we should be selling used cars, LOL!

[bamboozled]

Hey - when I was wearing rust breeches it was the 70's - and as another poster mentioned: Appliances were either avacado green or harvest gold. Carpet was still shag (they even sold carpet rakes).

I was listening to David Bowie and wearing REALLY wide bell bottoms.

Old, and happy to be here :lol::lol:

You forgot the Lava Lamp, the 8 Track Tape Player, and the Peasant Top. Ground control to Major Tom.

[anonymoustip]

Urband legend states that breeches were rust because back in the day feminine products were not as reliable. :eek::eek:

I could have gone my whole life not knowing that piece of information! ;) :lol:

But I appreciate you sharing!

[lcw579]

That is true, the TS rust is a good deal more orangey than I remember. Rust (in my albeit rusty - har har - memory) was almost like the clay of decent pottery. Not quite pumpkin.

These are not mine (not male) but they looked a lot like this:
Rust Breeches (http://horsetopia.horse-for-sale.org/local/products-and-tack/l254340?nearby=true)

If those were for women, I'd think someone was selling off my mom's old pair!

[ohsareee]

I ride in CT and there is only one person who rocks the rust color breeches. I must say, I am not really a fan. I guess it was one of those 'had to be there' kinda things. Maybe it woulda been different if I grew up with everyone wearing them, not sure. I know everyone here wears the TS greenish "beige", i used to go with the ariat "beige" which wasnt as green, and I stuck out alot in the show ring, so I just had to pick up a pair of the TS again. I can't help it, im just a sucker for the way they look. Plus I ride horses of many colors, so they go very nicely, and I had to get an almost black hunt coat, looks marvelous.

[ohsareee]

Oh, and a while back I discovered a box of my moms old riding items and behold, there they were; rust colored johdpurs. I took them out and she was like they were all the style back then. I just couldnt understand it.

[GettingBack]

Urband legend states that breeches were rust because back in the day feminine products were not as reliable.

Actually, I love this about rust. I know, sounds terrible, but I'm paranoid about "that time" and the very idea of wearing flesh/lighter than flesh colored breeches makes me just want to cry.

[naters]

Peanut gallery speaking. I have no involvement in H/J.

But I can't help but notice that for reasons far beyond my ability to ever comprehend, "rust breeches" is creating about six new threads a day. It boggles the mind how the topic could possibly be that interesting. (I'm teasing!) ;)

Now back to your regular program...


:lol: Hence why I had to post this thread. :)


I guess I am double zipping my flame suit, because I have ALSO always hated the puke-green color breeches.

I have always gone with regular old beige/tan. I just don't EVER get them skin tight because I am an adult, and definitely have butt/thigh/stomach candy :lol:

[Summit Springs Farm]

I didn't like rush breechs in the 70's and I didn't wear them, and I don't like them now.

[OnyxThePony]

Dove grey.. ah now THERE was a breek colour. I was wracking my mind trying to figure out whatever I wore "before greenish beige".. of course, dove grey.

Geez.. you could almost split hunters into two distinct eras.. BGB and AGB. That's really when the BIG CHANGE came, wasn't it.

BEFORE GREEISH BEIGE
We had...
rust, grey
no skunk stripes on our helmets
thoroughbreds
handy courses
outside shows
the forward gallop
stock pins (cringe)

you know, etc..

[LSM1212]

I have to agree... not much of a rust fan here either. And it would look horrible w/ my horse (blood bay).

I don't like the puke green, so I stick with tan. I LOVED the dove grey I used to wear in the 80's. Now that looked smashing, IMO. :D

[naters]

I like the gray as well!

[Sing Mia Song]

I'll tell you why I like rust: I'm a slob. I am my own groom, and dirt is magically attracted to me. The lighter the color, the more Pig Pen-like I become. Puke green hides dirt? Pffft, not on me!

I was a junior in the 80s, when we were all still wearing Harry Halls. Yes, we wore beige breeches and navy coats for the Eq, and on the day of the stake class. But rust was in the rotation as well for other days

[pattnic]

Urband legend states that breeches were rust because back in the day feminine products were not as reliable. :eek::eek:

If this is the case...

#1 - Then why not black?

#2 - Then why does the George rock the rust?!?! :uhoh:

[Wellspotted]

I love 'em because I'm old school, and an adult. Trust me, you do not want to see me in puke-green/beige. I don't want to see me in puke-green/beige. :D

I don't want to see that color on anyone anywhere! ;)

As for rust not going with anything, these young asbestos-wearers apparently just don't remember madras jackets! Black also goes well with rust, as does navy (as someone already pointed out).

[lesson junkie]

If you really want the rust breeches to look great, you need to get the Newmarket boots, too.

[GettingBack]

I thought rust was quite classy with the brown jackets as well (the new brown, not the old plaids) and of course the blues. It doesn't appeal to my eye as much with the gray jackets, but I'm sure with the right threading it might look quite eye catching.

[Wellspotted]

If you really want the rust breeches to look great, you need to get the Newmarket boots, too.

Yes! (Where do you get them nowadays?)

I think that the black breeches with the little purple horse-print full seat should be the new standard for showing, BTW! :lol:

[GettingBack]

As long as we don't go leopard, I'm all for it!

[Wellspotted]

Yeah, I'm with you on the leopard print.

However ...

... wish State Line still carried their zebra helmet covers. I would love one to go with my gloves! :D

[Dispatcher]

If you really want the rust breeches to look great, you need to get the Newmarket boots, too.


Yes!! The problem is the rust color today is not the same as the rust color of yesteryear...!

Seems like a LOT of pictures of George Morris show him in rust breeches. For all you haters of rust, here's your chance to criticize George!

[foursocks]

It is all a cycle, children! Before the side-zip TS's in the puke-green came into the world, my show breeches were all front zip and: very light tan, dove grey, and rust. (Before that, when I was still doing schooling shows, I rode in very dark green wool jods and a burgundy hunt coat! :( :lol:) As a junior, though, I had the rust, grey and tan breeches and: a dark grey jacket and two navy coats with white pinstripes. I wore white, light yellow and light blue rat-catchers. Then the puke-green hit the scene and with them I wore: black coats with faint pink and blue pinstripes, and ratcatchers in solid colors that matched the pinstripes in the coats.

No more rust, no more grey. It was a sad time (although the thicker cloth and looser shape of the TS's was much more flattering than the super skin-tight and thin light tan and grey everyone wore previously!) I don't miss the rust but I now like to show my jumper (who is very light grey) in my new dove grey breeches with a greyish-blue ratcatcher and a dark grey with pinstripes coat. His boots, of course, ;) are black leather. Good taste, in my opinion, is all about what looks best on you and the horse, not what the Jones's are wearing. :cool:

[gmv567]

I loved showing in my rust Jods when I was little! I hated my hunter green coat though, and shudder when I see people showing in hunter green show coats. I also used to show in grey breeches when I moved up to tall boots. I never see grey breeches anymore. :(

Why are popular breech colors such ugly shades??

Rust and puke green... blech to both.

I swear I am rocking light grey breeches next time I show. Will look lovely with my grey/lavender windowpane coat. (now I just need a horse to show! ;) )

I have only seen one person that I like the rust on, and they were rust jods. Plus the whole rest of the outfit was perfect. She was on a medium bay pony. Otherwise...

I LOVE THE GREY!!!!! The TS pearl or dove grey.... love it! Too bad I outgrew mine, I did the A and AA in them two years ago. Those are absolutely going to be my next pair.

[OnyxThePony]

OMG.. I forgot about the (ahem.. my) dark hunter green huntcoats. Totally forgot. :lol:

Wow.. that was one sharp coat.. at the time. *shudder*

[Tilly]

*raises hand* Okay. My name is R & P, and I used to be a rust-hater. 'Oh, it's just so ugly!' said she. Until, that one red-letter day, I wore a pair of rust breeches. 'look at how nicely it complements the pony!' said she.
I've been cool with the rust since :lol: I don't love 'em, but I don't hate 'em.
Hate puke-green. Love gray. Hate dark green jackets, hate stock pins, hate *gulp* canary :eek:

[naters]

Whats funny is that I LOVE the rust COLOR. I have several sweaters that color...

I just don't think it looks good as breeches against any horse.

[Tilly]

I just don't think it looks good as breeches against any horse.

I think it looks nice on greys. And very, very dark bays. But on a light bay or a chestnut? gag. Although, it did look very nice on my pale chestnut roan pony ;)

[GettingBack]

I wore them with all colors of horses BPG (before puke green), but APG I wore them on a quite bold chestnut. There's a picture in my "Schooling and Riding the Sport Horse" of Anne Kursinski rocking the rust on a chestnut...I adore that picture.

[FancyFree]

Puke green really is the worst. Breeches the color of sea-sickness.

I've always had bays, for some reason, and the rust looks really good on them. I must be the totally odd man out because I used to have a forest green jacket that I just loved. :cool:

[GettingBack]

Yup, I miss the green jackets too.

[luvs2ridewbs]

yeah I wouldn't mind seeing green coats come back in

[danosaur]

Urband legend states that breeches were rust because back in the day feminine products were not as reliable. :eek::eek:


:eek::eek::eek::eek:

that's amusing.
I personally think they look stupid. I mean, sure, if you're out in the hunt or something maybe it hides dirt? and along with the feminine product thing I would think that being out all day may be slightly disastrous.

but I'm 16. I'm too young to know anything about anything :lol:

[kaazs]

I too am not a fan of rust breeches.

[Swale01]

I love gray breeches. I don't own a pair because I didn't think they were show-appropriate....but are they? You would make me a very happy person if you tell me that yes, in fact, they are appropriate....

[Parker_Rider]

My rust TS just came in today... and I've gotta say, I absolutely adore the color... how it'll look against my tack is a totally different decision, but I know they'll be awesome against my super dark bay. However, not with my blood-red mare. Ohmygod, I'm now coordinating outfits to match my horses. I think I have hit an all time low. :eek:

And I too, would like to know if the grey breeches are appropriate because I love my pearl TS pair...

[Ready2Ride]

My rust TS just came in today... and I've gotta say, I absolutely adore the color... how it'll look against my tack is a totally different decision, but I know they'll be awesome against my super dark bay. However, not with my blood-red mare. Ohmygod, I'm now coordinating outfits to match my horses. I think I have hit an all time low. :eek:

And I too, would like to know if the grey breeches are appropriate because I love my pearl TS pair...

pics!! What style did you get?

[RugBug]

Whats funny is that I LOVE the rust COLOR. I have several sweaters that color...

I just don't think it looks good as breeches against any horse.

Heh...and I HATE the color except for in breeches and think it looks great with most color horses, dark bays at the top of the list, greys last.

'Course, I grew up with the light tan, light grey (While very pretty and looks smashing on a grey horse...it's HORRIBLE to keep clean) and rust options for showing. Canary had already bit the dust in most areas, although I still thought it was pretty. Jackets were black, blue, hunter green or grey (or some shade of the those colors).

Actually, I had a brown tweed-ish coat that would be considered quite stylish these days...but I HATED it. I had to buy all my show clothes myself..so ended up with a lot of sale items. My first coat was the brown one and NO ONE was wearing brown at that time. It was O-U-T. I was soooo happy the day I bought my plain navy coat. I LURVED that coat...and still have and wear it to this day. It's not special or anything...it's just not the brown one. :winkgrin:

Fads come and go...why limit yourself based on what someone else likes/dislikes? If you like rust or grey breeches, chances are you will be showing under someone who does as well. Go for it, wear what you wnat and have fun.

[Parker_Rider]

pics!! What style did you get?

Got the TS cotton low rises. Will post pics after I head out to the barn today and offer myself up as the visual example of the "i hate the rust" thread :lol:

[superpony123]

oh here's a good one :D

not only do i looooooooooooooooooooooove rust..

.. i have STOCK PINS !

and i am not afraid to wear them!

(actually, i'm too lazy to use them with my regular ratcatchers, even though i used to, but, for my stock tie, it does need SOME sort of pin!) :D:lol:

[feather river]

my flame suits on too...

I acctually think rust looks really bad. I'm sorry but I don't understand what all of you guys see in them.:confused: And also what shows do you se people wearing them at?? I show almost every weekend and have never seen them in the show ring. The exceptions being on COTH and my one friend who ripped her breeches on the first day of and over night show and her only back-up pair were her mom's old rusts from the eighties. Needless to say we were all making fun if them including her.:lol:

Well it is too bad that you are not in charge of the clothes police.

[Daventry]

not only do i looooooooooooooooooooooove rust..

.. i have STOCK PINS !

and i am not afraid to wear them!



I am afraid to wear stock pins! :eek: After having one come undone years and years ago, and then folding over too far while my horse jump really big, I ended up getting stabbed in the neck with the pin!! It was very minor, but enough for me to never put one on again.

P.S. I HATE rust breeches too! :no::no: WTF were the equine clothes manufacturers thinking?!?

[damecheval]

As a general rule I'm not very fond of rust breeches, they just aren't very attractive. However, I have seen the occasional person wearing them and thought that they looked great. For example, the Wildhorsefeathers catalog had this adorable little girl in it wearing rust colored breeches. But maybe it was just the girl...

[Parker_Rider]

Alright, here's some pics of the new rust breeches. It's not very good lighting because my mare (1st picture) looks the same as my gelding... and my mare is usually a coppery/red color and the gelding is a super dark bay. Feel free to bash/love the visual of my new breeches!!! (ignore the black jacket and the fact that I look like I'm ready for Halloween...)

http://s681.photobucket.com/albums/vv172/Jkoerner/Rust%20Breeches/

[Ready2Ride]

I love them!

[unbridledoaks]

Don't feel alone, I'm with you! LOL!

[Xanthoria]

Rust = orange, basically. Orange doesn't go with many colors, and in fact clashes horribly with some shades because it's not a neutral color.

Neutrals like beige, white, cream etc work for breeches because they'll provide an understated foil to almost any coat color, as well as leather color. Rust doesn't.

You can have several tones of a neutral all working together - you cannot have several tones of rich, reddish orange together and have harmony, unless you work in a majolica pottery factory. Believe me - I have a chestnut. Putting oranges, terracottas and reds on him is a disaster.

I've seen a few pics of people sporting their rust breeches with navy jackets, or caramel saddles, or grey horses and it's just awful.

Now, if you can wear neutrals in the rest of your outfit, and your tack doesn't clash, and you can pick another item in a perfectly matching rust to tie it all together (polo wraps, pad trim) then great. But clearly this is not a showing outfit.

[FancyFree]

Alright, here's some pics of the new rust breeches. It's not very good lighting because my mare (1st picture) looks the same as my gelding... and my mare is usually a coppery/red color and the gelding is a super dark bay. Feel free to bash/love the visual of my new breeches!!! (ignore the black jacket and the fact that I look like I'm ready for Halloween...)

http://s681.photobucket.com/albums/vv172/Jkoerner/Rust%20Breeches/

Those look great. My mare is a bay with copper coloring too. I think they'd look great on her. Much more striking than vomit green or a washed out beige.

[caradino]

Rust = orange, basically. Orange doesn't go with many colors, and in fact clashes horribly with some shades because it's not a neutral color.

Neutrals like beige, white, cream etc work for breeches because they'll provide an understated foil to almost any coat color, as well as leather color. Rust doesn't.

You can have several tones of a neutral all working together - you cannot have several tones of rich, reddish orange together and have harmony, unless you work in a majolica pottery factory. Believe me - I have a chestnut. Putting oranges, terracottas and reds on him is a disaster.

I've seen a few pics of people sporting their rust breeches with navy jackets, or caramel saddles, or grey horses and it's just awful.

Now, if you can wear neutrals in the rest of your outfit, and your tack doesn't clash, and you can pick another item in a perfectly matching rust to tie it all together (polo wraps, pad trim) then great. But clearly this is not a showing outfit.

*applause* thank you!!! some of the color combinations people are sporting with the rust would make the hosts of "What Not To Wear" pass out on the spot! i also am not a fan of rust britches. (though i MIGHT wear a pair schooling.. with a white shirt.. and white saddlepad.. and very dark tack.. on a horse whose color will not clash.. maybe.) i've been reading this thread with bemusement.

and i have to say it... i REALLY LIKE the puke green color. there.

*zips up flame suit*

[Trixie]

some of the color combinations people are sporting with the rust would make the hosts of "What Not To Wear" pass out on the spot!

You say that as if we all frequently wear gray blazers over puke green pants with pink or light blue shirts in the real world... :lol:

[caradino]

You say that as if we all frequently wear gray blazers over puke green pants with pink or light blue shirts in the real world... :lol:

LOL you have me there!

we DO sport some odd color combinations in the hunter world... but at least puke green is a neutral! :winkgrin:

[Trixie]

We're also among the few that consider puke green "neutral."

[chawley]

More rust for me then! :) I loved rust growing up, and still love it. I have the rust TS schooling breeches, but recently picked up a pair of the rust TS Royals. I can't wait to wear them.

I was never a fan of the grey breeches growing up, but would like to see a modernized version of it before I say I still don't like it.

[foursocks]

chawley- here is a pictorial of me showing my baby jumper at a schooling show with grey TS- my coat is dark grey with a very faint blue windowpane, and I was wearing a pale grey-blue ratcatcher. I'm putting up links to the 3 picture series not because these are stellar examples of me and my horse, but because it cracks me up and I thought I'd share.

Dunh dunh dunh...here we come...
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a298/sproutsie/042008053.jpg

Hey, I dropped my stirrup! Ack! Maybe I should get ahead of him and load up his shoulder! That will help!
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a298/sproutsie/042008054.jpg

Oh well, carry on...
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a298/sproutsie/042008055.jpg

[chawley]

chawley- here is a pictorial of me showing my baby jumper at a schooling show with grey TS- my coat is dark grey with a very faint blue windowpane, and I was wearing a pale grey-blue ratcatcher. I'm putting up links to the 3 picture series not because these are stellar examples of me and my horse, but because it cracks me up and I thought I'd share.

Dunh dunh dunh...here we come...
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a298/sproutsie/042008053.jpg

Hey, I dropped my stirrup! Ack! Maybe I should get ahead of him and load up his shoulder! That will help!
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a298/sproutsie/042008054.jpg

Oh well, carry on...
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a298/sproutsie/042008055.jpg

Thanks foursocks. I can't access photobucket at work, but will check out your photos from home later!

[Bugs-n-Frodo]

The absolute NICEST looking show outfit I have ever seen in my almost 30 years of riding was a little girl who showed her pony in grey breeches, a light blue shirt, grey jacket, grey helmet and black gloves and jod boots... her hair was in braids with blue ribbons. That grey was stunning to me. That was a LONG time ago.

I come from Dressage-land, I am traditional... black coat, white (yes, stark white, I don't wimp out and do off-white) breeches, black boots, black hat and white square pad. HOWEVER, when I school, anything goes. My favorite pad is orange and I love color. :winkgrin:

I will say that rust does not offend me, but, I am from that era. I never showed in rust, but I had a pair. The only color that offends me is the canary. :dead:

[sisu27]

I loved showing in my rust Jods when I was little! I hated my hunter green coat though, and shudder when I see people showing in hunter green show coats. I also used to show in grey breeches when I moved up to tall boots. I never see grey breeches anymore. :(

I used to show in greys as well when I was a kid, with a navy jacket. I think it looks great...I wonder why it has gone away and rust is making a come back? Rust pants and a green jacket...that is gross.

[La Gringa]

I love rust, period. I don't care what anybody says! :lol:

[Wellspotted]

I loved showing in my rust Jods when I was little! I hated my hunter green coat though, and shudder when I see people showing in hunter green show coats. I also used to show in grey breeches when I moved up to tall boots. I never see grey breeches anymore. :(

Dover has some lovely grey breeches, but I don't know if you mean you never see grey ones at shows, or at all (as in catalogs).

When I was little, green breeches just were not worn. There was some dress code or something that you just could not wear green breeches. I am still shocked when I see people in green breeches today, for that very reason, even though the code/dress rule seems to have gone by the board.

I personally loved canary breeches!

All in all, I think "to wear rust or not to wear rust" is a matter of personal taste.