Unaff Dressage - what to wear ?

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First comp ever in a month, what should I wear so I don't look scuzzy ?
I have beige jods, black jod boots, - would my tweed hacking jacket be ok ? What sort of shirt ? Tie or stock ?

Tweed hacking jacket would be fine, plus a plain dark tie and a white shirt with a collar. And a big grin so the judge thinks you're enjoying yourself!

Good luck; let us know how it goes!

Great, thank you ! I just need to pinch one of DHs ties as my showing one is dark gold.

Am looking forward to it, and it has been great as a focus

I'm sure dark gold would be OK. Which test(s) are you doing?

Only 2008 A walk/trot . But its a start, and in the not quite two years since I lost the use of my left arm, I didn't think always that I'd get this far. Just need a bit more control in canter now.

Tweed is fine, with a tie. I think you only wear stocks with black or navy.

I wear a green striped tweed for dressage and much prefer it as it goes better with my horse's type (I have a traditional piebald hairy beast). It looks super smart and I like the fact that we stand out a bit amongst a sea of navy and black I was one of a handful in tweed at Stoneleigh last year.

I'm fairly sure it's more correct to wear a coloured stock with tweed for dressage, I think I got this idea from the BE dressage rules. I only wear a tie with tweed for showing and cubbing. With tweed, a coloured shirt should be worn with a tie, a pale yellow is ideal.

Posted too soon! Good luck with it, enjoy, but try not to get addicted

Thank you both !

Oh wow, you are competing! That's so exciting, very best of luck. Please please please can we see photos? Have you learned the test or is someone allowed to call it out?

I will post photos

I've learned the test - while doing dponys in hand work, we've been actually going through it, which makes everyone else greatly