in my collection of photographs, captioned : 'Mrs Keith Simmons, who is here seen with some of the hounds, wore complete masculine hunting kit at the meet of the Tedworth Hunt at Tottenham, in the Savernake Forest. The occasion was taken to present to the Earl of Cardigan a silver box in celebration of his coming of age.
no dates- but likely 1938-40.
the Hunt here
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I don't think God likes me, and I don't like him for all sorts of reasons, for doing such cruel things to people and being so badly dressed. I hate the brown Jaeger dressing gown with a rope around the waist. We wouldn't want him like that at a dinner" - Betty Somerset from The Beaton Diaries.
ReplyDeleteI would love to have a hat like the one on the right.
ReplyDeleteMy aunt was photographed in her ridding habit just like this, but with the bowler like the other woman on the right. She was such an accomplished equestrian, she qualified for the Olympics, but couldn’t compete because they didn’t let women on the team. I loved the photograph so I painted a miniature of it and gave it to her a few years ago, she’s ninety now.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me so much of my step=grandmother, who rode hard to hounds. LLGxx
ReplyDeleteBruce- that should be easily done, rider or not.
ReplyDeleteSydney- I do love the romance of it all, though such controversy now. I don't wonder that the foxes are a bit puzzled by the whole uproar.
LLG- and does her grand daughter?
This is one of the coolest blogs I've come across in a long time. Very cool..keep the interesting posts coming. -BC
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