Sentence examples for riding habit from inspiring English sources
noun
A woman's garment for horseback riding.
Ms. Mack is exquisite, dressed strikingly by Erin Murphy in riding habit and crop; Mr. Wilson has matinee idol charisma.
The second highest price achieved at Sotheby's, $25.92 million, greeted the portrait of a woman in riding habit with a would-be alluring smirk on her rouged lips.
It was generally acknowledged that even if most park users could not afford the riding habit, the spectacle of their betters on parade served an uplifting, or at least entertaining, purpose.
She is also to be seen striding about in riding habit, top hat and/or big gauntlets, and brandishing an array of riding-crops, one of which comes from Eros Boutique.
"It was only over the next 75 years that the riding habit caught on," said Kenneth Jackson, editor of the Encyclopedia of New York City and a professor of history at Columbia University.
Christopher Bailey's 2006 dress in lilac silk faille for Burberry, the exhibition's chief sponsor, grandiosely merges trench coat with queenly riding habit: its spreading train, lined in red, all but obscures the horse.
Saddles, for instance, have been donated by Hermès and riding habits by the Belgian designer Dries van Noten.
If you really insist on knowing who designed the ball gowns, furs, bathing suits, embroidered boleros, cocoon coats, Grecian tunics, harem pants, and riding habits in "The Fashion Pictures," you have to read the fine print of the endnotes.
What was wonderful was how much livelier the gorgeous landscape of this city became when this cadre of exotic creatures in all their raiment — skyscraper stilettos, lace mantillas, riding habits, Mr. Pearl corsets and bondage boots — made their invasion.
They cast off their Marie Antoinette frocks and took to dashing English riding habits, wearing their husbands' politics on their backs.
Opera gowns, dinner and daytime dresses, women's riding habits (with 15-inch waists), children's wear and servants' attire appear in fabrics of rich velvet, silk, flowered brocade and wool.
