If there is one thing dressage riders do really well, it’s breathing life into “classic” and “traditional” styles. While they prefer to keep everything within the [60 X 20 meter] box, they’re always finding ways to balance elegance with refreshing individuality. Crystal Anne Little is the owner and head trainer of Atkinson Riding Academy, an…
“Riding is gentle on the body”—said no one ever. I once moved into a farmhouse to start a new job as a rider/groom. The (assumingly exhausted) girl before me didn’t exactly make the effort to polish up the room before she left. Among the abandoned odds and ends were half-filled bottles of ibuprofen in just…
Continue Reading 6 Items that Make Riding with Arthritis More Comfortable
Right now, somewhere in North America, there is a girl sitting at home caught between awkward adolescence and the evening bell. She wears her paddock boots to the park, and just so there wasn’t any mistaking that she rides, a screen printed t-shirt of a horse frolicking through the surf. When teachers and well meaning…
I don’t think I’m alone here when I say that I have a love/hate relationship with Instagram. Mainly, it’s a relationship borne out of envy. It seems like every rider I know is taking elegant, professional-quality photos on horseback and around the barn. Even worse, the captions always seem to indicate that they just rode…
Lisa McLean has a masters degree in psychology, but when her career took an unexpected turn towards fashion she didn’t overanalyze. “When I was pregnant, I left my job and basically just wanted a creative outlet,” said McLean. Born from her craving to create was bella bliss, a women and children’s clothing line featuring classic,…
Ever find yourself in a situation that makes you wonder if stuff like this only happens to you? That frozen in your tracks, heart-dropping “OMG” moment when you realize your leopard-print underwear is showing through your white breeches or that you’ve been wearing your shirt buttoned wrong and/or inside out all day. Yeah, we’ve all been…
Continue Reading 17 #EquestrianFashionFails We’ve All Experienced
No matter how comfortable your tall boots are, we can’t wait to take those bad boys off and slip into our favorite pair of barn shoes after a long day of riding. Have you ever noticed the vast variety of barn shoes around a horse show? (Are we the only ones scoping out people’s footwear after…
Summer is right around the corner and the sun is making its powerful debut. In a sport that involves being in the sun for hours on end we are faced with the challenge of preserving our skin. How many of us actually put on sunblock, let alone reapply every four to six hours? Let’s be real,…
Whitney Anderson was born in Alaska into a third-generation commercial fishing family and grew up in Breckenridge, Colorado, and Seattle, Washington. In 2009, she received a B.A. of Fine Arts from Duke University and she hasn’t looked back since, traveling to more than 55 countries, establishing her own fashion label (Big Bold Fierce), and developing a fine-art following…
Continue Reading Q&A: Artist Whitney Anderson Is Bringing Horses to High Fashion
When did this happen? When did I become a fashion don’t? I mean, I consider myself somewhat current with all the trends. Stores in Malibu know me by my credit card number. I read W and work in the world of film production…how did I go so horribly wrong? It happened with Barn Clothes. Instead…
Continue Reading Barn Clothes: Life on the “Fashion Don’t” List
