Most Embarrassing Place You Wear Your Riding Clothes

[Laura F.]

Hi Everyone,
Do you ever stop off at the grocery store or drug store on you way home from the barn, STILL in your riding clothes? How about going out for lunch after a ride?
Where is the most embarrassing place you ever wear your riding clothes?

[Barbara F.]

Woman horse rider kicked out of Tesco store because she was 'too smelly'

By Dan Newling

Time was when the ripe smell of horses and livestock was an ordinary part of day to day living.

In modern Britain, however, the 'smell of the countryside' - like so many other harmless aspects of life - has been branded a health and safety menace.

Amateur horse rider Krys Gunton fell foul of the edict when she walked into her local supermarket in her jodhpurs and riding boots, having just finished an early morning ride.

She was astounded when, as she gathered her groceries, a security guard tapped her on the shoulder and told her: 'You're smelling too much'.
Krys Gunton

Horse rider Krys Gunton was shopping at her local Tesco store when a security guard asked her to leave because she was 'too smelly'

Miss Gunton, 29, said: 'At first I didn't understand him, but then it became clear that someone else in the shop had complained about the smell to him.

'He kept on repeating "you're smelling too much". I asked him what he thought I should do about it. He suggested that I should change my clothes.

'I just told him that I didn't have any spare clothes - and there was nowhere to change anyway. The whole situation was completely ridiculous as I didn't have any horse muck on me - just a but of mud.

'I was totally humiliated in front of a shop full of people and felt forced to dump my shopping and simply walk out of there.'

Miss Gunton, who works as university administrator in east London, said that she had spent an hour riding her horse, Monty, an eight year old gray Irish draught cross thoroughbred that morning.

As the horse is liveried at a nearby riding school, she had not mucked out the animal at all. Indeed, she claimed that the only mess on her clothes would have been some dried mud on her riding boots.

Miss Gunton said: 'Before I went in I made sure that I wasn't trailing mess everywhere. Anyway, it was not like I was covered in horse muck - it was just "eau de horse"!'

The incident happened on January 2nd at a branch of Tesco Metro in Romford, Essex. The store is located near rolling fields and is near a number of riding schools.

Miss Gunton claimed that other horse riders regularly use the shop, although she said this is the first time that she has heard of anyone being punished for it.

A Tesco spokesman said: ' The customer was asked politely to leave the store as she had manure on her riding boots which is of course not acceptable in a store which sells food."

[Catherine]

I once had to stop at the library on my way home from riding. I was pretty much stared at untill I left! lol
I also go to resturants when I'm at horse shows but there are usually a lot of horse people around so I don't feel to out of place.

[Helen]

When our stable is at an out of state horseshow, our trainers always take everybody there out to eat. One time we were in St. Louis, and we wwent to this really fancy italian resturant. Since everybody had finished pretty late, everybody was still in there breeches, zocks, and shirts! one person even wore her helmet in to "Disguise" her awful helmet hair. When we went in, everybody gavew us weird looks. the whole stable strutted around the restuirant like "ya, we now that we've been riding, and we're proud of it!!!":) LOL

[Sidney Jefferson]

Most of the time when my mom takes me to the barn, she has to go somewhere afterwards. So one day on the way to the barn she says she got to go pick something up from the mall. Normally she would tell me if we were going somewhere afterwards so i could bring extra clothes to change into. (but i end up forgetting shoes so i have to wear my paddock boats anyway) So I have no idea where we are going untill she pulls up infront of a MALL ! Not just any mall. One that all the prissy girls go to to buy their clothes. I wanted to stay in the car, but of course my mom wanted to show me something inside. So yes, i had to walk through the mall in my breeches, with my paddock boots and half chaps, and dont forget the helmet hair.

[Natasha Sukorokoff]

oh jeez, I've been everywhere in riding pants! the worst would probably be over to my hot neighbours house. they have two dogs, and having horse slime, barn dirt, the smell AND two huge dogs crawling all over you just aint that attractive.

[Laura]

Im proudest of myself when I wear my riding cloths out :D Never embarrassed. I wear my riding stuff anywhere I might need to go (much to my mothers horror) because those are the cloths that make me feel happiest. I get odd looks sometimes, but mostly its looks from people going "hey, she rides too!"

[Anni]

I live in downtown Chicago, and commute out to the barn, so when I leave my apartment people stare at me like I'm absolutely crazy. I sometimes then have to go straight to work ( a shoe store ) and change in the bathroom, and I think most of the people I work with have never set foot in a barn.

[IrishRider]

I have walked into our local Starbucks a few times in breeches and tall boots. Only a few people actually get why I am dresses like that, the rest of them just give me an odd look over their latte.

[Lucy]

I am never embarrassed about wearing my riding clothes in public. I even went to class in my breeches and half chaps one day when I didn't have time to go home and change after a ride. Nobody seemed to care. I did get some odd looks but all my friends and the prof knew I was a rider so they didn't think much of it. I ride at home and there are times my mom will ask me to run a errand right before or after riding and I never bother changing, I just go as is to save time.

[Emily]

I am in my breeches for the day! I will also go out to eat with friends and clients after working at the barn late and not having a change of cloths and often yes i am the only one dressed like this. The best is when i go out for a quick bite to eat with friends who do not ride and are all clean. The other good one is when you go to pick up food in show cloths...

[Nicole Jackman]

I live in a small cowboy town so lots of people walk around with mud on their boots and hay on their clothes. But since I ride English I do get some funny looks at the coffee shop or grocery store in my breeches, tall boots, and flat hair.

[Wendy]

Okay, this is the most embarrassing moment ever when wearing my riding gear..... breeches and long boots.... I stopped off at a grocery store after riding, bought my groceries, and as I was returning to my car, a man came up to me and handed me a business card asking if I would do a porn movie in my riding clothes! Yuck.......