Wow. I've never heard of or seen hats for horses. Learn something new every day.

Does anyone have a picture of this? A poster on the website thread
below mentioned that he had seen pictures of hats on civilian horses.
I've never seen or heard of them in a historical context.

Today, we sometimes use "fly fringe" which have fabric covers for the
horse's ears and a crocheted fringe that hangs down over his forelock
to keep away the flies. This only works so well as some flies will
bite through anything, no matter how much flyspray you put on it. The
show types use them to hide the cotton that they stuff into their
horse's ears to muffle the crowd noises.

I think I would go completely overboard with a straw horsey hat tho'.
I would be too tempted to make it match my straw bonnet by putting
flowers and pretty ribbons on it.

Deb

On 1/25/06, Barbara Hass <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> http://www.authentic-campaigner.com/forum/printthread.php?t=10980&page=3&pp=10
> I found this web site for reenactors which has a discussion of hats for
> horses --
> some seem to think the hats were more for mules.
>
> Interesting topic hard to search!!                      Barbara Hass,
> retired reference librarian.

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