Riding habit facts for kids
A riding habit is a suit of clothing worn by women when they ride horses. It includes a jacket, a long skirt, a shirt, and a hat. The rider also wears boots, a necktie, and gloves. Riding habits were first worn in the 18th century.
Images for kids
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Riding habit, 1801
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Riding habit (c. 1885–1895), Jacoba de Jonge Collection in MoMu, Antwerp
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Woman's redingote, c. 1790. Silk and cotton satin and plain weave. Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Woman's redingote, c. 1790
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Redingote à la Hussar, 1817
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Redingote of 1887
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'Redingote polonaise' (left) from a McCall advertisement, 1914
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Madame La Comtesse de Saint Géran in a riding habit with a masculine-styled jacket and waistcoat, c. 1680
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Marie Adélaïde de Savoie, Duchesse de Bourgogne in a scarlet riding habit, with male cuffs, gold trim, buttons, early 18th Century
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Lady Worsley in a riding habit with a cutaway coat and waistcoat, and military details from the uniform of her husband's regiment, then in America fighting the rebels, 1776.
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Button-front redingote of 1790, worn with a tall hat.
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Fashion plate of 1799.
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1830s habits show the popular full sleeves of the day.
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1850s habit, worn with fashionable ringlets under a top hat.
