How to Choose a Color for Your Horse
Picking a color to choose for your horse and what to wear when you ride says a lot about your personality and your level of professionalism. Not everyone wants to wear the same color. Horse riders want to stand out and look sharply dressed. So what color do you choose for what horse color?
Number one rule, to blend in, wear the same color as your horse, and to stand out, pick a complimentary color.
First of all, black is a universal color and looks good on any color of horse. However, black is also hot in the sun and while you may like professional, you don't necessarily stand out. It's a good color for hiding a flaw in your equitation, such as hiding hand movements with black gloves. However, if you want to stand out, consider choosing from the equestrian color wheel. For black horses and horses of all shades of grey, pick just about any color from the color wheel and stand out more than wearing just black or grey.
Next, there are other colors that help you blend in with your horse. This helps create harmony visually. If you ride a grey, consider wearing grey. If you ride light colored horses such as buckskins, cremellos, perlinos, palominos and likewise, considered wearing shades of cream, tan, taupe, vanilla, and buff. If you want to stand out try picking colors from the darker blue and and darker green collections. If you ride a bay, consider wearing rusty colors or dark reds, and browns. If you want to stand out pick any shade of pink, purple, and the aqua to light blues. Definitely, if your horse is more of a shade of brown, wear brown to match, unless you want to stand out. Then choose from the aqua blues and greens to yellows. Pink and rose colors also look nice on a brown. If you ride a chestnut or sorrel, consider caramel, tawny, cinnamon colors for matching, and to stand out, pick from the coppers to aqua greens and blues. Last of all are the roans. They can be the blue roans so then wear the black, greys, and even navy to blend in more. To stand out, pick the purple and blues. As for the red roans, stick with the cinnamon to rust colors to blend in pending the coat color, but to stand out pick from the greens and even the red category can look stunning.
Of course, picking a color is highly controversial, and this is just a start. Bottom line is pick a color that you like and just wear it!
Number one rule, to blend in, wear the same color as your horse, and to stand out, pick a complimentary color.
First of all, black is a universal color and looks good on any color of horse. However, black is also hot in the sun and while you may like professional, you don't necessarily stand out. It's a good color for hiding a flaw in your equitation, such as hiding hand movements with black gloves. However, if you want to stand out, consider choosing from the equestrian color wheel. For black horses and horses of all shades of grey, pick just about any color from the color wheel and stand out more than wearing just black or grey.
Next, there are other colors that help you blend in with your horse. This helps create harmony visually. If you ride a grey, consider wearing grey. If you ride light colored horses such as buckskins, cremellos, perlinos, palominos and likewise, considered wearing shades of cream, tan, taupe, vanilla, and buff. If you want to stand out try picking colors from the darker blue and and darker green collections. If you ride a bay, consider wearing rusty colors or dark reds, and browns. If you want to stand out pick any shade of pink, purple, and the aqua to light blues. Definitely, if your horse is more of a shade of brown, wear brown to match, unless you want to stand out. Then choose from the aqua blues and greens to yellows. Pink and rose colors also look nice on a brown. If you ride a chestnut or sorrel, consider caramel, tawny, cinnamon colors for matching, and to stand out, pick from the coppers to aqua greens and blues. Last of all are the roans. They can be the blue roans so then wear the black, greys, and even navy to blend in more. To stand out, pick the purple and blues. As for the red roans, stick with the cinnamon to rust colors to blend in pending the coat color, but to stand out pick from the greens and even the red category can look stunning.
Of course, picking a color is highly controversial, and this is just a start. Bottom line is pick a color that you like and just wear it!
