178 JJV THE HIDING-SCHOOL. 



will change so much during a three hours' ride 

 that you cannot keep yourself sufficiently warm 

 for comfort and for safety, and if you start for 

 a longer excursion, you must use your common 

 sense. The best and least expensive way of 

 solving the difficulty is to have an ordinary 

 habit, with the waist and skirt separate, and 

 to wear a lighter coat, with a habit shirt, or 

 with a habit shirt and waistcoat, whenever some- 

 thing lighter is desirable. This plan gives three 

 changes of dress, which should be quite enough 

 for any reasonable girl. 



But still, you do not know what color you 

 can wear? Black is suitable for all hours and 

 all places, even for an English fox hunt, although 

 the addition of a scarlet waistcoat, just visible 

 at the throat and below the waist, is desir- 

 able for the field. Dark blue, dark green, dark 

 brown are suitable for most occasions, and a 

 riding master whose experience has made him 

 acquainted with the dress worn in the principal 

 European capitals, declares his preference for 

 gray with a white waistcoat. 



Among the habits shown by English tailors 

 at the French exhibition in 1889, was one of 



