260 HACKS AND HUNTERS 



Top hat with hat-guard to match velvet collar. Veil op- 

 tional. (Hunt collar should never be worn with a 

 bowler.) 



White hunting stock. 



Black Melton habit with skirt-coat (or Pytchley), with 

 distinctive hunt buttons and velvet hunt collar.* 



Black calf butcher boots and garters. 



Spur. 



Tan doeskin or white buckskin gloves. 



Hunting-crop with brown or white pipe-clayed thong. 



Combination oblong hunting-case should be carried on 

 off rear side of saddle, and white or buff cord gloves 

 under off girths. 



Full appointments for ladies' hunt team: 



For member's team. 



All three ladies attired as above, and exactly alike even 

 as to the shape of hat, tying of stock, length of 

 thong, etc., etc. 

 Tack on horses. 



Bridles all alike, double or single, with sewn-in reins 

 and headstalls. French clip not desirable. Plain 

 Cavasson nose-bands and plain, not colored, 

 fronts. 

 Saddles, all alike, of some good make, preferably 

 with pigskin, and not buckskin, seat and pommels. 

 Leather or linen lined, with leather girths. 

 Martingales and breastplates optional, but the latter 

 generally advisable on a ladies' team. If used, 

 martingales and breastplates should be made 

 to fit each horse. Martingale rings should be 

 of proper size, so that leather stops are unneces- 

 sary. 

 Leather combination flask and sandwich-case (oblong 

 not oval) carried on off rear of saddles. White 

 or buff cord storm gloves under off girths, with 

 tips just protruding beyond the saddle-flap. 



* Scarlet is never worn by women, although I believe Miss Somer- 

 ville of the West Carbery, in Ireland, who hunts her own hounds, 

 wears it. 



