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Weird nostalgia: My old rust Harry Halls Posted: 03 Dec 2009 02:06 PM PST Here I am in the late 70's on a a surprisingly agile draft cross named Summer's Day. Summer's owner was pregnant and I was riding him for her. Summer was a sweetheart, but the subject of this post is not the horse. It's about... The breeches. Proof that you can wax nostalgic about anything... My sister has a basement full of stuff that she has had since childhood -- including clothes. Among the clothes I would bet she still has a Hang Ten halter top and a pair of Bobbie Brooks slacks circa 1977. Well, the other day she started to clean out some of the artifacts of her past, and what do you suppose she found? An artifact of MY past! Specifically, she found one of two pairs of breeches that I owned as a teen. I had a pair of canary yellow breeches for foxhunting, and a rust pair that I used for horse shows (top left). She mailed me my rust breeches and I got them last week -- breeches more than 30 years old, the breeches I rode my main steed Foxfire in, my little bit of history! The tag reveals them to be Harry Halls, which at the time was a "woo-woo" brand. Believe it or not, I only owned two pairs of breeches at the height of my horse craze. Mostly wore chaps. Maybe that's why I'm such a horse clothes horse now. Equissentials, Tropical Rider, FITS, I own them all. Nostalgia alert: This week I will be riding Harv in my Harry Halls!

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