PonyGurl Couture

They were brave, often idiotically so. They fell, fell, and fell again, hurtling over the big fences and into the bogs, thinking life or limb well lost in the sacred quest. They bonked a lot. Fox-hunting and adultery are inseparably entwined. Those of us who live in the country yet are rotten horsemen have always been madly jealous of the success with women of a good man to hounds. His cheques may bounce, he may have the brain of a pea, but if he "goes well" he never lacks female worshippers. The complexity of some fox-hunters' love lives is amazing, hence my favourite hunting story.

Two men out with the Quorn saw two women fall heavily into a ditch on the far side of a field. One man said: "Oh God, I'd better go and take a look. One of those women is my wife and the other one is my mistress." The other man demurred. "I'll go," he said, and cantered across to inspect the wreckage. A few minutes later he was back. Glancing impassively at his companion, he observed thoughtfully: "Small world, isn't it?"
Max Hastings Guardian Newspaper

Ponygurl Couture Edwardian inspired riding mistress jacket in Scottish green tweed with sky blue and russet window pane check.

£975 in heavy weight tweed

Leather choker and wristband with silver pheasant claws and green kid gloves from our vintage couture private collection; James'pink jacket is a vintage Llangibby Hunt one. Incidentally the Hunt is now amalgamated with the Curre and the Curre Hounds are descended from the fox hounds of Owain Glyndawr.

Model: Bridie Barnes

Location: 'untin'country

Photographer: David Dent

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Jacket made to measure in any combination of tweed and velvet subject to availability £975.00