What's Up with Rhythm's Mommy? A Decision to Make

Well, as you can imagine with the golden boy gone to Tommy Garland's for training, Brittany is missing the Arabian horse. She has three other Arabian geldings at home to ride, but her dream is based around Rhythm. While the horse is gone to Garlands, she has things to put in order before show season starts.

One of those things, of course, is show clothes. She's never had a horse of this calibre and never had hopes of riding at the higher level. Now that it's looking like her dream might be attainable, she needs to dress the part. She needs new show clothes.

I had talke to her dad, Rich, about the fact that Brittany was working on getting custom show clothes made. I even had an idea about the direction she planned to go. It all sounded good to me. I could hardly wait to see what this outfit was going to look like.

Then Brittany called me on the phone on Wednesday asking for my assistance. It seems the company that is making her clothes won't be able to get the clothes done until later in May. The plan was, if the horse was ready, the first show would be in Syracuse, NY the first weekend in May.

Well it just so happened the seamstress had a shirt just Brittany's size. The shirt was designed to be worn on a chestnut horse. The woman would send pictures, one of the shirt and one if a fabric swatch to show the color for chaps, she thought would work best. Brittany wanted to forward me the pictures for my opinion.

I've talked with her on the phone. We have mixed reviews about the shirt. And I'm thinking for all that money she should get what she really wants instead of something she can get in time for the first show. I can understand the woman wanting to sell her this shirt since most of their work is custom orders and this is already made. It takes some stress off in a busy season.

So here's the deal. Since you all have been so involved in Rhythm's story, we thought maybe you could give us input on what you think would look best on him. I'm posting a picture of the shirt and the swatch for chaps.





Originally Brittany thought she wanted something sand or light tan colored for both the shirt and chaps with cranberry overlays on the shoulders, collar and cuffs. Also maybe on the bottom of the chaps. We also talked about
turqouise as being a good color on Rhythm. It could be substitued on the overlaly for the cranberry or done right with the cranberry.

This shirt is all the current rage but my problem with the current rage is you end up looking just like everyone else. Even though the shirts are different colors and the overlays shaped a bit different the overall look with how the print is used etc is definitely hot.

I think the shirt is interesting but worry that the orange is not the right tones and might clash bad on the horse. He is more a golden chestnut than an orange one. Brittany liked the style of the shirt but wasn't sure about the print or the orange and Rich didn't like the orange.

Personally I hate the chaps fabric. I have seen it in the ring. It looks dirty or something that stuck in my mind as not a good clean look (actually they looked cheap to me, not the picture we are trying to portray) But what color would look good with this shirt was a loss as well.

One thing Rich, Brittany and I all agree on is that Brittany doesn't want to be so glitzy that you see her instead of the horse. In keeping with that thought I was thinking something more along the lines of classy. The crystals and glitz could still be used but just more sedately.

OK, that's what we've got to this point! What do you all think?


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