Excerpt from Riding Habits and Habits of Riding, or an Enquiry Into the Most Proper Position and the Most Becoming Dress for Ladies on Horseback: To Which Is Added the Riding School, or Elementary Instruction in Horsemanship, Addressed to the Late H. C. Esq.Strange as the shape of these cloth brogues may appear when distended as in the drawing, yet when they are drawn in plaits round the waist, by means of the tie which passes through the hem, their appearance is that of the customary English riding habit slightly dragging on the ground. From their breadth they allow of just as much room as the habit does for placing the leg over the pummel, and they have this advantage, that there is no opening beneath but for the feet to go through, so that a fall from the saddle is entirely exempt from those consequences which some females dread more than bruises or even broken bones. Thus a lady with a cloth jacket and sher wals of the same colour, without discomposing the other parts of her dress, has but to slip them on, and she will be to all appearance in her habitual riding costume, only that she gets rid of a foot or two of skirt and the mud generally collected by it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.