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 The riding habit depends on two things: a person’s age and the environment. The young girl in her ’teens wears a tweed suit consisting of a box coat and riding breeches for riding across country, in town or even for an exhibition.

This costume is usually completed with a blocked tricone or a soft felt hat and riding boots.

Very often out in the country a woman also wears a tweed suit, box coat and breeches instead of a skirt. However, if she is riding in town, her suit is a little more formal. The coat is oxford cloth or twill and fitted. Her riding breeches are of twill or checked material or she has a divided skirt to match her coat. Her hat is either the regulation sailor or tricone.

For indoors exhibition riding, women usually choose the side saddle which calls for the regulation side-saddle habit and high silk hat.

The ideal suit for knockabout country wear is a three-piece one of tweed, homespun or khaki. There is a coat cut in box style and belted, a pair of knickerbockers and a skirt. The skirt buttons up the front and if occasion warrants can be worn as a cape. The outfit