j8o riding for ladies. 



lined jacket, to fit over habit-bodice ; and one Newmarket 

 overcoat, to wear when driving to and from covert. 



It will be only necessary to notice a few of these articles 

 in detail, having already given advice concerning most of 

 them. To begin, then, with stockings. Wear woollen 

 ones if you want to have your feet always dry and com- 

 fortable, with a pair of silk drawn over. Nobody who has 

 not tried this plan can possibly realise the warmth and 

 comfort of it — especially when the outer stocking is of spim 

 silk ; a material in itself almost as warm as wool. If the 

 sensation of wearing wool next the skin is objected to, the 

 silk may be worn underneath. As a rule, however, it is 

 only cheap wool stockings that " tickle " ; the finer kinds 

 seldom do, and I cannot recommend the " cheap and 

 nasty " in any article of riding gear, no matter how com- 

 paratively unimportant it may seem to be. 



Your breeches for hunting should be especially well- 

 made ; large enough in the seat not to burst in case of 

 a fall, and long enough in the thigh not in any way 

 to hamper the knees. Nothing save a garment of this 

 description can be worn with top boots, nor will any- 

 thing else do so well for hunting, or be half so com- 

 fortable. They should be carried below the calf of the 

 leg, in order to check the tendency to work up, and 

 ought to have the last four or five inches made of silk, or 

 better still, good serviceable satin, by which I certainly 

 do not mean the abomination known as cotton-back, 

 which in reality gives no wear at all. This arrange- 

 ment will prevent the top of the boot (a Wellington, of 



