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Title: Riding and driving for women
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Beach, Belle
Subjects: Horses Horsemanship Driving of horse-drawn vehicles
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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Correct CostuxMe for Young Girls Riding Astride by men, and there are few occasions when a womanhas it in her power to look better—or worse—thanwhen in the saddle. It is only those women who arebuilt like men and very young girls who look at allwell astride. A woman with merely a normally de-veloped figure looks both ridiculous and immodest in 39
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RIDING ASTRIDE this position, and in an English saddle thoroughly illat ease. Much as I disapprove of most women using thecross-saddle, yet, as this book is intended to be asomewhat complete treatise on riding for women, andas many women insist on using the cross-saddle, andas in some parts of the West, and in roughing it,riding must be astride if at all, I shall make a fewsuggestions about the way in which a woman canbest attempt to do this, though it is something inwhich she can rarely, if ever, attain perfection. The saddle for cross riding generally used bywomen in the East is the same as a mans, althoughsome makers are offering a cross-saddle especiallyadapted for women (see illustration, page 155). Thesesaddles are built more on the lines of an armysaddle, having more dip and a straighter flap thanthose for men. Many men, and nearly all hunting men and poloplayers, use plain flap saddles; that is, without rollsand cut well forward so as to give plenty of roomfor the knees (see i

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