Women's Riding Apparel & Equestrian Clothing

Breeches or riding tights, riding boots, a protective helmet and a riding top. At USEF shows, protective headgear is required in hunter, equitation and dressage classes, and boots worn while riding at dressage competitions must have a distinguishable heel (HU107.1, EQ106.1, DR120.1.1 and DR120.1.6, 2026). For schooling, lessons and trail, the rest is your choice or your trainer's.

For schooling, lessons and trail, it's your choice or your trainer's. If you like denim, riding jeans are made for the saddle: Horze makes its Kaia Highwaist Denim Silicone Full Seat Breech with a silicone full seat for grip. At USEF shows, the hunter, equitation, jumper and dressage attire rules all name breeches (HU107.2, EQ106.2, JP111.11, DR120.1.4, 2026).

Knee patch breeches have grip at the knee; full seat breeches carry it through the seat. In the hunter ring, knee patch is the norm, on the flat too; in dressage, full seat is the norm, and many jumpers ride in it too. Eventing splits it: full seat for dressage and cross-country, knee patch for stadium. No USEF dressage rule requires full seat: DR120.1.4 sets only the color. For schooling, lessons and trail, it's your choice or your trainer's.

Hunter and equitation breeches may be buff, canary, tan, rust or white (HU107.2, EQ106.2). In jumper classes, Formal Jumper Attire calls for white or fawn breeches, Proper Jumper Attire for light colors (white, fawn or canary), and Standard Jumper Attire allows any color (JP111.11). Dressage allows white, light or dark breeches, with no bright colors or patterns (DR120.1.4). All rules are from the 2026 USEF editions.

Our women's breeches and tights run in waist sizes from 22 to 38 and up and in letter sizes up to 3X. Choose your size in Find Your Fit above to see every style made in it, Unisex included.

Paddock boots are ankle-height riding boots, worn on their own or with half chaps. Dublin, for example, designs its Venturer RS boots specifically for riding, to fit well in a stirrup iron. At USEF dressage tests at Fourth Level and below, paddock or jodhpur boots are allowed with half chaps or garters that match the boots (DR120.1.6, 2026).

At a USEF dressage test at Fourth Level or below, paddock or jodhpur boots are worn with half chaps or garters that match the boot color (DR120.1.6), and in jumper classes half chaps are permitted when their color matches the paddock boots (JP111.11). For schooling, lessons and trail, it's your choice or your trainer's.

The rule allows both: USEF DR120.1.6 requires tall English-style riding boots above Fourth Level, “including dress or field boots or variations thereof,” and at Fourth Level and below allows tall boots, or paddock boots with half chaps or garters that match the boot color. In practice, the dressage ring does not use field boots.

A show shirt is the collared shirt worn under a show coat, and the rules set its neckline. Hunter and equitation shirts must have a choker, similar collar or tie (HU107.2, EQ106.2). Formal Jumper Attire calls for a white or lightly colored shirt with a white collar and white cuffs (JP111.11a), and dressage shirts need a tie, choker, stock tie or integrated stand-up collar (DR120.1.5).

A dark, single-color coat meets all three: formal hunter attire calls for scarlet or dark coats (HU107.3), Formal Jumper Attire for dark, muted or scarlet coats (JP111.11a), and dressage permits any single-color jacket, while striped or multicolored jackets are not permitted (DR120.1.2). All rules are from the 2026 USEF editions.

That's your choice, but riding coats add details made for the saddle. Horseware builds its Verve Long Padded Coat with a two-way zip, a generous back gusset and removable inner leg straps that keep the coat in place while you ride, and Mountain Horse gives its Alicia Parka a riding slit at the back.

Look for a glove made for cold rides. Roeckl makes its Warwick Winter Riding Gloves from Polartec Power Stretch Pro, with extended cuffs that tuck inside a jacket sleeve and silicone on the palm for grip, and Horze lines its Winter Cuff Gloves for warmth, with an adjustable cuff fastener.

In USEF dressage, white or light-colored gloves are recommended and any solid color is permitted at Fourth Level and below; gloves are required in FEI tests or levels and must be white, off white or the same color as the coat (DR120.1.7, USEF Dressage Attire & Equipment booklet, 5/1/2026).

It means the helmet meets a published testing standard. USEF dressage rules require protective headgear that complies with the accepted testing standards published on the Federation's website and carries the applicable testing tag or label (DR120.1.1). Makers list their standards on the product page: Equinavia, for example, lists ASTM F1163-23/SEI and CE EN 1384:2023 for its Crown helmet.

Mips stands for Multi-directional Impact Protection System. One K describes it as a low-friction layer inside the helmet that allows a sliding motion, designed to add protection against rotational motion from angled impacts. See every helmet with it on our Mips helmets page.