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THE RIDING HABIT. 



The skirt should be fitted when the 

 wearer is on horseback. The whole habit 

 should be quiet in colour, neat and severely 

 simple in style, avoiding extremes in length 

 or shortness, and should fit with perfect 

 ease and comfort. A good habit maker 

 will be able to give ladies information as to 

 other items of a horsewoman's outfit. 

 Suffice it to say that hat, gloves and whip 

 should be suitable to the wearer ; the hair 

 should be done up tightly, no ear-rings 

 should be worn, and the whip should be of 

 moderate length and almost inflexible. A 

 safety skirt is not a necessity, but it may 

 be recommended, as being safer than the 

 ordinary one in case of a fall. ^ 



LADIES TO UNDERSTAND SADDLING AND 



BRIDLING. 



Ladies should be carefully and repeatedly 

 instructed in the various items which come 

 under the head of Bridling in the fore- 

 going pages, and also in those included 

 under Saddling, so far as they apply to a 

 lady's saddle (see p. 19), they will find the 

 knowledge and experience thus obtained 

 most useful in enabling them, when a horse 



