Looking Elegant on a Horse

It's really ironic that my paternal grandfather, who I adored and one of the key influences of my perspective of what a real man should be, was a horse trainer (and in his youth, a jockey). Yet I never learned to ride a horse because I just didn't have the opportunity to do. Well, perhaps I really did have the opportunity, but I wasn't mad about horses as a child.

But I've had may occasions to watch people riding horses, either on tv or in person, and regretted that I never learned to do so. Nowdays women ride horses the same way men do. But there was a time, that if you were in the proper society, women were expected to ride sidesaddle being as that it was more ladylike to do so. Yes, that may have been sexist. But I just think there is an elegance to riding sidesaddle that just cannot be matched. It looks like you really have to master the ability to sit upstraight, while keeping your legs on one side of the horse, and control the horse at the same time. I came across a website that sells clothes and saddles. I just love the clothes that you can see on this page. Maybe someday I can actually learn to do so. I think Miss Myla would look so elegant. Don't you agree, Genia?