Do you like yourself in your riding hat?

[Trundlecat]

We've got Hippyhorse looking like a model in her thread & I had to comment on a photo from an absolute stranger the other day cos she looked too good in a hat too. I'm getting really paranoid cos I look like a total pleb in mine! Doesn't help I have glasses & hair that's not short but too short to tie back so pokes out of the bottom. I seriously hate myself in my riding hat, would rather wear a full face motorbike helmet to be honest. Think I've just got one of those brows & face shapes that is always doomed to look like a potty head in any kind of hat.

Anyone else the same or do I have to dislike you all? Men need not reply BTW, have yet to meet one I don't fancy in riding gear so I wouldn't believe you if you said you looked bad in yours lol.

[chickyd444]

my head looks fatter than normal - so no ! :p

[*Sez*]

I hate me in a hat :o Jockey skull caps make me look like a UFO is landing on my head, and so far the one that suits me best is my Harry Hall, but I still think I look ridiculous... but better ridiculous than broken :D
I quite fancy a motorbike-style helmet as well - when I had my bike I had a tinted visor which would be perfect for riding out on days like today and to keep the sun out of your eyes :D It was a bit warm in there, though, but I guess it would keep your ears warm in winter! :D

[noumenon]

I just hate myself in a riding hat - I can't find a shape that suits me (unlike my daughter who looks wonderful in any shape of hat) so I think I must just have one of those faces. Slightly better in a skull-cap with silk but only marginally!!

[gordysgirl]

Nope I certainly look a muppet! It would appear I technically have quite a small head so when i put a hat on they always look enormous & like they are balancing on top of my head!

So, no do not like myself in a riding hat of any description!

[soph1985]

No it makes my head look HUGE and I look like a right pleb just look at my pics lol

And who hates hat hair????? God when I take my hat of its all flat and stuck to my forehead sticking up in places lol

And who said horsey girls are sexy lol;)

[Trundlecat]

No it makes my head look HUGE and I look like a right pleb just look at my pics lol

And who hates hat hair????? God when I take my hat of its all flat and stuck to my forehead sticking up in places lol

And who said horsey girls are sexy lol;)

Hat Hair - I even wear a wolly beanie in summer after riding cos I so can't do hat hair. If I can't find a wooly hat before I go to the stables (which is often in this house, we have a black hole somewhere) I switch on the knitting machine & knock a quick one off rather than go without. Defo growing my hair again cos it's so much better just to be able to tie it back.

[~*sugarlump*~]

i look manky:o
look terrible in a skull, better in a ventair, and still abit better when i wear bunche or pigtails:p

[Bertie]

No I look like a complete gimp in my hat!! I hate wearing it but I also my head to be in perfect working order so wearing it and looking like the local village idiot is the lesser of 2-evils :p

[andreaB]

i've never even considered it! its an essential piece of nsafety equipment , end of!

[Gruntfuttock]

I look terrible in all photos, so I don't care !

[palmerlover52]

I have the classic mushroom head :rolleyes:

I've given in with the hat hair thing....normally I have straight, messy hair (think Elliot from Scrubs) but wax + hat + sweat = :eek:

Ah well, I look like a gimp, but at least I still have a head :D

Ooh, 11:11 make a wish.

[welsh-by-name..]

I have a masoove head so have to buy even more masoove hats!

Once bought a velvet show hat and looked so masoove i've never worn it, time for e.bay me thinks!

My current one is ok, but still dont like looking at pics of myself in it!

So vain aint we! :eek: shocking!

[xloopylozzax]

i hate skull caps full stop.....

will only wear 'posh' showing hats. i have to get one with a small crown other wise it looks odd on me, but it doesnt look too bad.
hat hair is ok i just stick it in a low ponytail. tend to have a shower though because it gets greasy from my (old) hat.

[*taz*]

And who hates hat hair????? God when I take my hat of its all flat and stuck to my forehead sticking up in places lol

And who said horsey girls are sexy lol;)

lol i know having a fringe is awful!! you straighten it in the morning and when you go riding it has kinks and sticks up!!

hats just makes heads look huge and it doesnt help when you have a big head anyway!!:o

so to answer your question No:D

[RRA]

Some people do carry them off better than others..me - I'm always on the look out for something lower profile - I already have a big head, but my Harry Hall one is pretty good and I like the air vents..my skull cap type makes me look like I'm wearing an old fashioned motorcycle helmet and it also gets really hot underneath!:p

[LeftBrainer]

i look amazing in my hat. It's just a coincidence there are no mirrors in the tack room or the loo. As for why my children and my OH guffawing loudly I have no idea why;)

[learningcurve]

I too look awful and have a quite a large head.

Reading this thread is there a link, horse riding and big heads?

[keds mum]

Yes horrible I have a tiny pin head and any hat I wear looks ridiculous, worse though is the hat hair when I take it off.:eek:

[Mimi + Me]

No I don't, and neither do I like myself in jodhpurs :o

[BlackBess]

I can't get a velvet hat that fits my head so I wear a skull cap which makes me look like an atomic mushroom. Its got a cover to try and make it look like a velvet hat but I still look a total idiot in it but if it keeps the old bonce protected.

[Hero]

i have the champion vent air one .... doesn't bother me at all. looks fine...
(i think lol)

x

[Hippyhorse]

We've got Hippyhorse looking like a model in her thread & I had to comment on a photo from an absolute stranger the other day cos she looked too good in a hat too. I'm getting really paranoid cos I look like a total pleb in mine! Doesn't help I have glasses & hair that's not short but too short to tie back so pokes out of the bottom. I seriously hate myself in my riding hat, would rather wear a full face motorbike helmet to be honest. Think I've just got one of those brows & face shapes that is always doomed to look like a potty head in any kind of hat.

Anyone else the same or do I have to dislike you all? Men need not reply BTW, have yet to meet one I don't fancy in riding gear so I wouldn't believe you if you said you looked bad in yours lol.

Well thank you very much for that Trundle(tenna is in the post)!!:D although personally I think it makes my head look huge(big enough already as wear a size 3 skull cap/71/4-1/2 peaked cap!) I think my son's hat makes him look hilarious same make as mine but he has a little head and it looks soo huge on him and he gets worse hat hair than me!

[Siogfinsceal]

NO it makes my head look mahoosive, it makes my hair manky and greasy and worst of all I always always manage to put my hat on slightly crooked so I always look like an idiot in picture!!

[Joyscarer]

I'm lucky because I have never been able to give a stuff what I look like.

I don't do fashion or makeup nor fancy haircuts.

So the fact that I look like an egghead and that jods aren't the most flattering of items for this Mrs Blobby don't really compute! :p

It's comfort, practicality and safety all the way for me :D

[Morganna]

Skull caps with silks always make my head look aboslutely huge for some reason. My velvet hat, not so much but I still reckon it makes me look totally stupid. I have one nice piccie of me in a riding hat that I like where my head doesnt look like an out of shape football

[Heucherella]

My Champion vented hat isn't too unflattering - the hat is fine - shame about the face underneath. :o

The big problem for me is also the hair. I get a tad hot when riding - think beetroot face - so when i remove said hat I look like I've been standing in a thunderstorm for an hour!! Only solution - removal of the many inches of insulation that I carry around with me. :rolleyes: Maybe I need a grazing muzzle....

[RichmondLass]

My sister says I look like a WW2 German soldier in my skull cap! I recently bought a Champion hat to take on holiday to Spain which looks more like a cycle helmet, shiny plastic with loads of vents. Not very pukka but light weight, lower profile and definitely more flattering (and easier to pack - will fit in hand luggage!)

[hannah:)]

NO I look like I've been assaulted with a huge mushroom... the only bit of riding kit that I like are my boots but I'd get cold if I only wore them;)

[Kittycat]

I look terrible in my hat, and when I take it off my hair is just plain scary. Add to the fact that I usually have a fine layer of pony drool on me and dirt on my face, well it's just the sexiest look!:D

[horse__obsessed]

dont like my skull cap, i want a more flattering one but no point cos i want to do xc n stuff and cant afford 2 hats

[Trundlecat]

My sister says I look like a WW2 German soldier in my skull cap!

PMSL!!!!

[Clava]

I'm lucky because I have never been able to give a stuff what I look like.

I don't do fashion or makeup nor fancy haircuts.

So the fact that I look like an egghead and that jods aren't the most flattering of items for this Mrs Blobby don't really compute! :p

It's comfort, practicality and safety all the way for me :D

Totally agree.

The only time I regret the look of my hat (because my ears stick out:o) is in photos which hardly ever happen (the old fashioned velvet thin and useless hats looked better but safety is the most important thing)

[mikh]

Should we post pics??????? go on!!!

[raingodz]

i have the champion vent air one .... doesn't bother me at all. looks fine...

Yup, I have a champion ventair too, it is great. I also find that skull caps make me look like a mushroom head (how come no one makes Super Mario mushoom style silk for a skull cap?!)
Should we post pics??????? go on!!!
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f192/raingodz/beauty/first%20show/IMGP1452.jpg

[Clava]

OK then......argh!
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn267/Pidham/BelleandI-1.jpg

[ANN H]

I look terrible in all photos, so I don't care !

Me too, but I look even worse in a hat. I have a very 'flat' profile and short hair that tends to stick up everywhere when I've had my hat on. My close-fitting blue velvet hat is OK but if I wear a skull or vented hat I just look ridiculous. My size 8 friend has tumbling blonde curls almost down to her waist and a lovely leggy TBX. I feel like a munchkin on a Thelwell pony when I'm with her!

Raingodz - I think you look very dashing, and I LOVE your siggy:D

[Trewsers]

Yep, I like my riding hat - means I don't have to worry about my hair - lol!! I've been obsessed with horses since childhood and have wanted my own riding hat for soooo long - I still cannot believe I have both horse and hat!!!! I don't know as I look particularly nice in it - but I've been told it knocks years off me.......hehehehehehe

[STEFF79]

I have the same hat as raingodz I never really thought weather I hate my hat.. No I think I quite like it,
it is a nessisary peice of equipment..
me in my hat.. :rolleyes:
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll232/steff79_photo/harrymetresouth-1.jpg

[*Sez*]

Since I'm having a photo posting day :D Here I am as Queen of the Mushroom-people :o

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/Gothic_Sez/Leeds%2018th%20Feb/2007_0218Salsa0192.jpg

[marli@missi]

Just gonna say what about the jod's!!!!! Lol. :eek: :D

[Trundlecat]

Just gonna say what about the jod's!!!!! Lol. :eek: :D

New thread on the way!

[marli@missi]

Just gonna say How do we all look in our jod's Lol!!!!!!!!!! :eek: :D

[marli@missi]

Call me thick. No only joking! Pls don't. How do I put on a question???????? :confused:

[Mimi + Me]

:ohttp://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f200/emmageegee/DSC04621.jpg
Well you did ask (sorry it's so big the photo I mean not the hat!) or maybe I do mean the hat :o:o

Coupled with the fact that the peak of the silk has gone sort of ripply AND the satin has come away, showing the plastic bit underneath, it's really not a good look :D:D

[soph1985]

:ohttp://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f200/emmageegee/DSC04621.jpg
Well you did ask (sorry it's so big the photo I mean not the hat!) or maybe I do mean the hat :o:o

Coupled with the fact that the peak of the silk has gone sort of ripply AND the satin has come away, showing the plastic bit underneath, it's really not a good look :D:D

Complety of the subject but your horse is georgous lovely markings and colour:) Sorry just had to comment

[Mimi + Me]

Complety of the subject but your horse is georgous lovely markings and colour:) Sorry just had to comment
Thank you, she's not bad I guess :D:D:D Everyone thinks she's a gelding though :o

[soph1985]

No shes is very pretty and unusal markings, and dont worry my gelding always get called a mare:eek: lol

[Silvia]

I must say I don't really know how I look with my riding hat on. We don't have a mirror at the yard and I don't have any recent fotos of me riding either.
I guess I'm better off not knowing. :rolleyes:

[clairey259]

Well Mimi + Me, I think you look lovely in your hat. Me on the other hand!!

(I know the strap under my chin is rather loose, new hat, so it's now a lot tighter!!)

[Crazy Mare]

I used to look awful in my old skullcap but my J3 skullcap (with the silk) looks marginally better.

OK I guess, in a functional kind of way :rolleyes:

[carrimclaren]

To be honest i don't usually worry about it. It's one of those niggles at the back of my mind that might come out occasionally and if i had the money i'd invest in a J3 because i think they're lovely or a nice slimline hat but daydreaming aside, i haven't got the cash anymore to buy a new hat so my old faded black mushroom hat will do :) As long as there's something on my head for safety i'm not too vain about it. If i ever win the lottery i can assure you a posh new hat is on the to do list :D
p.s don't you just find there's some people out there who are always annoyingly lovely even with a big hat on their heads. :)

[clairey259]

God yes (see previous post from me on how to look gross in your riding hat!!), my friend looks perfectly gorgeous in hers!!

[Ruskii]

Strangely enough I do, I quite like my hard hat :D

[Capall14]

i have a scull cap that i think is the wrong size for me... i might get a new one. can you show wearing one with a black velvet cover? anyway it slides back sometimes and makes my face look pudgy :o xx

[kusha]

I look awful in my hat and my jods but think from the knee down I look fab in my boots and chaps!!! :D

[swava19]

I dont mind myself in the hat before riding, but afterwords, especially when its a really hot day like it was today my face is red like a tomato and it stays like that for like an hour:mad:. Even my instructor says so 'u r a bit pink on yr face' Bless me.

[TheHoglet]

i love my hat, i think it quite suits me :D

[Dogrose]

I look terrible in my hat, I have a big heavy face and I just look like weird big headed Orc or something. Still I have the benefit of being over 40 and therefore not caring what I look like :D

[Anna-Marie :)]

im not that bothered with my newer hat, but my old one was a horrible skullcap, no ventilation, the silk wouldnt stay on without attatching it with safteypins. when id finished riding my face would be red because it made me boiling! i basically looked like a right freak! haha

[Welshgirl]

I'm unusual then , because I actually like myself in a riding hat! (hate the hair afterwards though!

[Portia]

No, I look awful, hat or no hat! Best view is from the back :)

[horses4eva888]

I don't mind it from the side like this... (excuse the face, I was conscentrating!)
http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n158/horses4eva888/Duke/MeonDukeundarkenedbuttriedtofixVPLl.jpg

But I'll save myself the embarrassment of posting one from the front where I look like a complete mushroom head with no hair. ( I shove the fringe back under my hat when I ride or it bugs the hell out of me!)

[Anastasia]

I dont...
just look at this...

http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v288/210/40/1143602257/n1143602257_30102139_4861.jpg

[sjmcc]

love my harryhall with air vents in and always wear a hair net as my hair sticks out the sides i hate my showing hat its a high crown and looks awfull it to me looks to high off my head i wont put on till i have to and hate pics of me with it on im in need of getin rid

[ellasma]

I have the most enormous head so my hat looks like a mixing bowl BEFORE it's on my head! Once on it makes me look like an atom bomb or someone who's ready to be fired from a cannon!

[ShariN]

The helmet is there to save a life, not look pretty.
I would not be here typing to you if I did not wear an helmet, when I had that accident.

I have two different new ones...
This is the Tippery, DH likes that this one protects the back of my head more than other helmets would.
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i51/Bergere/dyfra/medyfrajune08ctoltsmall.jpg

And this is the Troxel
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i51/Bergere/dyframeeaug07.jpg

The Tippery sits lower on my head than the Troxel does but both are comfortable.

[ferna]

Banana head comes to mind:rolleyes:!! nooooo I look a right plonker

[JustJas]

I hate myself in any riding hat-mushroom head:rolleyes:. The closest I have to liking one is my GR8 in brown/tan but even then not enough to post a pic on here.

[FRED]

:)I look very serious lol~
this is from the 2007 Sheriffs Ride.

[antonia :)]

I look like a right pleb in my hat. I have a JTE one with the vents and its not a bad hat, just doesnt look good on me with a beetroot red face and hat hair lol! So im gonna save myself the embarrassment and not post a pic lol :D

[Janette]

I don't particularly care about what I look like when I'm wearing the thing, because without it I wouldn't be riding. It's just as essential as a saddle and bridle.

However - the hat hair thing afterwards is baaad! I've just got a Champion Ventair and that is brilliant. It's quite low crown, not too bulky and when you put it on, you can feel the air squish out of the vents. When I take it off, my hair looks much better than it did when I wore a normal skull hat and far better than when I wear my Charles OWen SJ.

[keithpenry]

I thought it was just me,adult male,that felt ridiculous with a [ potty-head].obviously not.

[JustJas]

I like my GR8 in brown/tan... best hat I have found but still not perfect but then when I am on a horse anything that keeps me safe is OK by me!

[twigs]

I have only started riding after 20 yrs and had one lesson last week, I never looked at myslef in my hat, but when I took it off I was mortified, my hair was soaking:D. Im sure I looked fab!!!:cool:
Im also sure no one was looking lol
sharon x

[HJ&Katie]

Nope I look terrible in all hats/helmets and unfortunately all of my hobbies need head protection (horse, snowboard and MTBing) - I have a large asymmetrical face

[vixie]

i have such a small head and my hat makes it look huge and round and just wrong...i have a champion cpx 3000 and an old champion one too, i look so much better in the old one :(

[solomansbandit]

http://i330.photobucket.com/albums/l439/solomansbandit/morgan.jpg[/IMG] I look like a day release patient in mine:(

[*katie*]

I look awful in a hat - i always have done - they look massive on my head for some reason :confused:!

This is me when i was a little kid in my hat:

http://www.newrider.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=891&pictureid=7629

And this is me a month or so ago:

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk89/Bambihorse_92/snipped.jpg


Depressing lack of difference :p! I've always looked awful in them so i sort of accepted it! And i'm going to make a shocking confession now - that's the same hat :eek::o! From age ten to age 16 my hat size didn't change and the hat didn't take a whack so i just carried on wearing it :o - if you look at the second pic; i look that size now on the pony in the first pic - that's how much i grew - but my head stayed the same hat size :confused:! Oh well; it means i can still wear kid's hats so don't have to pay VAT ;):D!

[vixie]

lol katie! you have the same issue as me! thats exactly how they look on me too.

and same with the kid thing....my hat size hasnt changed either...from 11/12...to teens...to 20s...all the same, kids hats, ;)

[vimto92]

I don't look good in my hat to be perfectly honest with you, and I look worse after a lesson when its off. Haha, sweaty fringe hat hair! Sounds gross, but c'mon, I'm not the only one now am I?:p

I wear a skull cap and its PAS 015 so VERY big.

[vixie]

my hat is pas 015 and its gigantic...i look very....strange.

and yes...sweaty hair is lovely, urgh :(

[*katie*]

I don't look good in my hat to be perfectly honest with you, and I look worse after a lesson when its off. Haha, sweaty fringe hat hair! Sounds gross, but c'mon, I'm not the only one now am I?:p
.

Nope :D! I'm the only one out of my riding group who wears a BP, too - so i always get even hotter :rolleyes:! Both me and the RI put on our big heavy waterproofs yesterday because it was piddling it down - dried up as soon as we got out and i was sweltering by the end of my lesson! Normally i keep my hat on for as long as possible to hide my hair - so i'll turn out in it (yard rules mean you have to anyway) i untack in it, rug up in it, everything, then dive in the car and whip it off when no one's watching! But yesterday my mum was going to be an hour or so late picking me up so i went to sit in the house - i obviously had to take my hat off in there so i was sat with these icky sweat patches from my BP and tangly, matted looking damp hair clinging to my head *wants a vomiting smilie* - then to make it worse one of the staff came in to sit down - she's one of those really irritating sorts who could go out hunting then take her hat off at the end and not have a hair out of place, or slightly red cheeks, or get slighty messy in anyway shape or form :rolleyes: - so she sits her size 6 backside down on the sofa and says she looks a mess and terrible and haggard - i was just thinking 'have you seen who you're talking to??? I look like i just went round Badders' :eek::o!

[vimto92]

Nope :D! I'm the only one out of my riding group who wears a BP, too - so i always get even hotter :rolleyes:! Both me and the RI put on our big heavy waterproofs yesterday because it was piddling it down - dried up as soon as we got out and i was sweltering by the end of my lesson! Normally i keep my hat on for as long as possible to hide my hair - so i'll turn out in it (yard rules mean you have to anyway) i untack in it, rug up in it, everything, then dive in the car and whip it off when no one's watching!

I am exactly the same; what are we like?!?!:D

I sweat a lot when riding anyway - I think I'd overheat and collapse with a body protector on as well!:eek::p

[vixie]

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y256/gorekitty666/pppppl/DSCF0594.jpg

thats me glamming it up....but still looking like a mushroom head....*amused*

[Dominic]

Well as of yet i havent seen anyone pointing and laughing hysterically so i'll carry on thinking i look like the best thing since sliced bread :cool: I have another hat that i havent worn yet as it was a self indulgence and is far too nice to be spoilt by wearing it although im sure everyone in the yard will chuckle merrily to themselves if/when i do wear it muttering under thier breaths something along the lines of "more money than sense.." and rolling thier eyes with a knowing smile :o

[Laura83]

I look stupid in my riding hat. I am overweight and I have a fat face that is only generally remedied by being able to wear my hair down. Of course with the hat on the hair has to be tied up otherwise it blows in my face when I'm riding and drives me up the wall, and I look like a fat mushroom off the Nintendo Mario Bros :mad:

[Gurnosstud]

I never used to, but after so many years of riding I think I have gotten used to myself in them now!! Both my hats are quite a nice shape, and I don't do skull caps at all.