Merideth

Dressage rider, Architect. Slytherin. India, Rave, and Reverie

[transequeerstrian]

First comp of the year and we came home with 2 blue ribbons 🥳

[flutterbuck]

[amazingpetenclosures]

by my.gecko.luvs

[milessperhourr]

Does anyone know any specifics on how this enclosure was made?

[classycookiexo]

[viggo-mortensen]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS 2002. Peter Jackson

[milessperhourr]

Veri wearing boots for the first time like a grown adult

[milessperhourr]

I have returned to this hellscape

Please enjoy this picture of india being the goodest girl

[scarlettjane22]

Horsespre & Lusitano Horses

[graydog58]

Hailey Rae Stewart

[star-anise]

Feminist fantasy is funny sometimes in how much it wants to shit on femininity for no goddamned reason. Like the whole “skirts are tools of the patriarchy made to cripple women into immobility, breeches are much better” thing.

(Let’s get it straight: Most societies over history have defaulted to skirts for everyone because you don’t have to take anything off to relieve yourself, you just have to squat down or lift your skirts and go. The main advantage of bifurcated garments is they make it easier to ride horses. But Western men wear pants so women wearing pants has become ~the universal symbol of gender equality~)

The book I’m reading literally just had its medievalesque heroine declare that peasant women wear breeches to work in the field because “You can’t swing a scythe in a skirt!”

Hm yes story checks out

peasant women definitely never did farm labour in skirts

skirts definitely mean you’re weak and fragile and can’t accomplish anything

skirts are definitely bad and will keep you from truly living life

no skirts for anyone, that’s definitely the moral of the story here

[beatrice-otter]

Now, a skirt that’s too long will be harder to work in–skirts brushing the floor may look elegant, but is also a tripping hazard–but that is not a problem with skirts in general, it’s a problem with that particular skirt not being suited to being worked in. Skirts are very practical. You can hike them up if you’re hot or need more freedom to maneuver (this is called “girding your loins”). If you need to carry something, you can lift up your hem and make a pouch just like the person in yellow in the bottom picture above. If you need to handle something hot, a skirt generally has enough material you can hold it out from your body to use as a hot pad. (Tight skirts were only used by people who didn’t need to work/move until the invention of elastic fabric.)

[star-anise]

Long skirts were markers of class almost as much as gender. Both men and women in the European middle ages wore extravagantly long garments to indicate both “I’m so rich I can afford THIS MUCH fabric” and “I don’t walk in the mud, I pay servants to do that for me.”

Skirt hiking: Definitely a Thing. (Janet’s tied her kirtle green/above the knee and not below…)

Love this post, and want to add: another example of the “empowerment means shitting on feminity” is the bizarro way that this genre attacks basic survival skills like cooking and sewing as pointless, inferior or mutually exclusive with masculine pursuits (like your lady knight should probably know how to cook for herself and sew her own wounds and patch her clothes while she’s on her quest through the North to rescue her boyfriend, or this happy couple is in for a world of hurt!)

Or to quote one of my all favorite posts, “fuck women’s contribution to our survival.”

[whatevercomestomymind]

Historically, skirts have been the garment of choice for almost every culture, gender and class. Breeches, or pants, were created specifically for riding horses.

[eric-coldfire]

Meanwhile, men wearing skirts.

[star-anise]

*bangs gavel* NEEDS MOAR SKIRT

(Seriously, the notes on this post are a goldmine for people mentioning their cultures where men wear skirts. I couldn’t fit them all in. This is missing toooons of cultures from every part of the globe, especially Asia, Africa, and the Americas.)

Ancient Rome

Modern Morocco

Medieval Europe

Traditional Saudi Arabia

16th century Russia

Traditional Papua New Guinea

16th century Turkey

Modern India

[wowsyri]

i deliver propane.  this means driving a large truck, then dragging a heavy hose up to one hundred and fifty feet through people’s yards, usually in deep snow and severe cold.  i was the first woman my company ever hired.

and when i showed up for work in a skirt, all the men went BALLISTIC.  they told me i’d trip, i’d get stuck, i’d freeze, i’d quit within the month when i found that i had underestimated how hard the work was.  i asked what they thought women wore to work outside before the mid twentieth century, and they told me “women didn’t work outside then.  they stayed in the house all the time.”  and that’s when i learned that hatred of the skirt is another way of erasing women’s history–if you can pretend that all women were too hobbled by their clothes to even function, you can pretend that they never contributed jack shit to society.

anyway i’ve been doing this job in a skirt for three years now, and all the men should be jealous of my complete range of movement and infinite layering potential.

[milessperhourr]

I frequently get asked why I wear dresses out to eat so much. Two words.

Maximum. Expandability.

I can eat as much as I want and I don’t have to unbutton anything or feel uncomfortable.

The dress: made for eating until your actually full

[all-the-horses]

Bayshore Simen

Gingard x FG Lakita

Fjord, Stallion

14hh

Born 2004

[sosuperawesome]

Carbickova Crowns on Etsy

[whitepeopletwitter]

[soundtrack-for-lovers]

Today marked the achievement of a 7 year long goal of getting this lad to big boy Grand Prix level.

A very solid 1.40-1.45m track with some cracking horses in the field (keep in mind we've only ever done about half a dozen 1.35m classes before this GP lmao). Just had the one rail which was totally my error, pushed him to a triple bar which got us too close to the next jump and punched it out. If I'd have waited for the better stride to the triple bar we very likely would have been clean.

They took the top 6 to the second round, there were 2 clears and 4 on 4 faults each (if they ran under non World Cup rules I would have placed third lol), I opted not to start in the jump off because he did so fucking well in the first round, so because of that we placed 6th.

I'm so proud of what this horse has become under my guidance 😭💞

[soundtrack-for-lovers]

Love how mature he's looking these days, finally 🥴😂

[cristalplanetheart]

[milessperhourr]

First question.... why?