News — HorsebackRiding

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich on Navigating the Starkly Gendered World of Horseback Riding

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich on Navigating the Starkly Gendered World of Horseback Riding

How I hated the jodhpurs. If you’ve worn them, you know why, can probably conjure their feel against your legs: the heavy yet too stretchy material; that color like sand or Play-Doh or a pallid doll’s hard plastic flesh, a color that has never looked good on anyone, only determinedly inoffensive, the most offensive thing about it. And then the horrible cling of those pants, the way there was just your shape in them, the bud bloom of your body right there for you and your mom and the other horse girls to see. Worse yet was that the pants...