An Improved Riding Habit.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Apr., 1894-Accepted, 5th May, 1894
An Improved Riding Habit.
We JAMES ALEXANDER WINGROVE, Tailors' Cutter, and WILLIAM PELLING,
a Director of Hyam and Company Limited, Outfitters, both of 134-140 Oxford
Street in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The chief object of the present invention is to produce a growing girls' riding
skirt which will fit and look well, and which can be used for riding either on the
near or on the off side of the horse.
It is very necessary for girls from the ages of 5 to 15, in order to preserve a
straight figure, to ride sometimes on an off or right hand side saddle, as a change
from the ordinary near or left hand side, and to enable them to do this, it has
hitherto been necessary for them to employ either a second, specially made skirt,
or to use one loosely made, without fitting or shape, which will do for riding on
either side, but which does not fit or look well on either.
According to this invention, a shaped reversible skirt is provided, which can
be used, and will look equally well, on either side of the horse.
In the accompanying drawing,
Figs. 1 and 2 show the skirt as used for the near side, in front and back views
respectively.
Figs. 3 and 4 are corresponding views of the skirt, as used for the off side.
Fig. 5 shews, detached, a loose piece, which, when secured in position, serves to
close the opening in the waist band of the skirt.
A is the skirt, shaped to fit the knee of the rider at a, and the pommel of the
saddle at b, in the manner well understood by habit makers, and having the side
worn next the horse longer than the outer side, as usual. The seams are what
are commonly called lapped seams, that is to say, seams which look the same on
both sides.
The skirt is converted from a near-side to an off-side skirt, by turning it
inside out, the cloth being reversible, and the seams being lapped seams, as
already mentioned. This will bring the parts fashioned and shaped to fit the
rider and the saddle, into the proper position on the reverse side, and the opening c
in the waist band onto the outside hip of the rider. This opening c is preferably
closed by a loose piece C (see Fig. 5) (which may be furnished with pockets, if
desired) carrying buttons to engage with button-holes in the edges of the opening c.
This piece C being loose, can be attached inside the skirt, whichever way the
rider wears it, and forms a neat and convenient mode of closing the opening.
In this manner, a reversible riding skirt is produced, which can be worn on
either a left or right hand side saddle, and which has the appearance, when in use,
of being specially fashioned and shaped for the near or the off side, as the case
may be.
The elastic loop indicated in dots in Figs. 2 and 4, is for the rider's foot, and is
detachable, a button being fixed on both sides of the skirt for the attachment of
the buttonhole carried by the loop.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
:-
A reversible riding skirt substantially as described with reference to the drawing.

page_text: fashioned and shaped for riding on one side of the horse, and suitable, when turned
inside out, for use on the other side, in the manner explained.
Dated this 4th day of April 1894
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.