Show Ring Bling????

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SFASUshowman

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I am helping a lady with her daughter's and son's first beef project!  The daughter is a senior so it will also be her last beef project but there are 2 more girls coming up behind her! They saw some really blinged out exhibitor number harnesses and show halters at a show, and have decided they want one.  I think I have talked them out of the halter but told them the number harness was ok...lol. 
Problem is none of us know where to get them? Is this something the people made on their own? Or is there someone who makes them? If anyone could let me know so I could tell them it would be greatly appreciated! 
 

titan

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Sullivan supply sells them.... i think. but you can usually find them at the show where the supply trailers are.
 

advocate

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Weaver leather has a lot of harnesses and halters and pretty much everything on there show supply endeavor
 

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Buy a plain one and make a trip to the craft store!  I know lots of girls that do that and make it their own creation... just don't get carried away.
 

harleyhog

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I have to agree with the previous poster, DO NOT GO OVER BOARD. 

In my opinion I think there is way to much "bling" in the show ring right now..We have watched a few preview shows and the girls  have on more jewerly and/or the tightess jeans a young woman would or should wear out on a date. I am a believer the show ring is to show off the cattle not the showman..
 

SFASUshowman

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I completely agree! Thats why I have cautioned them, but you know girls, they want to be flashy!
 

harleyhog

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I know!!  My 11 year old said she felt out of place showing in Sioux Falls in January as her jeans didn't have any "bling" and she didn't have any fancy jewerly on...

So at the expo she bought jeans with big blingy crosses on them to "fit it."  I am it was her money!!!!
 

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Some girls I seen at our Expo looked like Disco Balls, and not to mention the make up. I believe a lil bling is ok, like my show halter is the weaver dark dazzel, its just the right amount of bling, I think the sullivan bling halters should be left for the younger girls until age 14. With the show harness the best bet is to use a plain one and "bedazzel it ;D they can personlize it to the stones or studs they want
 

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me and my buddies joke around that the reason we don't win showmanship is because we dont have the bling. haha.
 

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(lol)

This is an interesting topic, and I think it could be even more interesting if everyone who responds to this post declare their gender, are you  male or female.  ???

I for one would like to know who is for, and who is against, all the BLING!  (pop)   

Male or Female Exhibitor, or is it Dad or Mom?  (argue)

<beer>
 

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SEA said:
(lol)

This is an interesting topic, and I think it could be even more interesting if everyone who responds to this post declare their gender, are you  male or female.  ???

I for one would like to know who is for, and who is against, all the BLING!  (pop)   

Male or Female Exhibitor, or is it Dad or Mom?  (argue)

<beer>

Female, and Im for a little like just one item, not belt, big necklace, big earrings, halter,show harness, and .headbands all together. I have even seen blinged out shirts
 

harleyhog

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I am a mom of an 11 year old girl..

I believe a little bling is okay, but not so much that it gets in the way of showing the calf.  My daughter says she doesn't win in showmanship because she doesn't wear enough bling either, because of mom, and her jeans are not tight enough, because of mom and dad!!!!!
 

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I'm a dad of a 9 yo old girl and I'm old school.  I hunt with a recurve bow and I am a blacksmith that can build just about anything out of metal with a coal forge and an anvil, but I got out voted on the bling thing with my wife and daughter.  I personaly don't care for all the bling on halters and belts but we did allow our daughter to have a little on her halter, that we did ourselves.  Now the belt is a different story,  I think the belt is way overboard but both grandmas got it for her and rather than start a fight that I can't win I look the other way.  There are other battles I can win.
 

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Being a dad of a 11 year old daughter and 8 year old son that show, we have basic rules.
Show halter - basic black and clean. Somedays a quick layer of Final Bloom is as close as we get there
Show harness - NO BLING.  make sure it fits good.  Safety pins sure help for those smaller kids.  If they are worried about adjusting their harness in the ring they are not worrying about what they should be.
Show Stick - Black or silver extra long, no exceptions.  Even for small kids so they can reach those back legs.  If its too long for them to manage they didn't practice with it at home enough.
When it comes to cloths I have one request - STARCH.  Nice well fitting jeans creased with heavy starch.  Long sleeve button down shirts pressed.
Nice bling belt on the girls and nice belt and buckle on the boys is fine.
A little bling neckless on the girls is ok.  Just not costume jewelry.
Nice boots or "cow shoes" as Bodie calls his Ariet chuccas.
I get a little fussy about Caroline's hair.  I want Kelly Pickler cute but nit gaudy.

This combination along with a lot of practice has given our kids a lot of success in the showmanship ring.

Ron
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flacowman

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guy, I always did a nice western shirt, clean dark jeans, my biggest belt buckle, and a concho covered belt.  I liked the flash of the silver, rhinestones on guys still kinda creeps me out personally
 

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From the pictures I see on here you people are mere amateurs when it comes to bling compared to some of the girls here   ;D. As a rule, I feel much more traditional about the dress and accessories in the show cattle ring.

There is however, one thing I have always wondered. And wondered even before the recent trend toward more glitter. Why is it that horse show people bling it up to the max and cattle show people have until recently have tried to be as plain and nondescript as possible? Why is it acceptable to have silver inlays and silver buckles on horse show halters, rhinestones on horsewomen's clothing with matching jewelry and yet as evidenced by the response here, cattle showers and expected not to do anything that would "take away from the cattle."  Does dressing it up only take away from cattle and not horses?

Seems to me an AQHA ( or NCHA, NRHA or USET) judge is much more attuned to the  animal than most cattle judges. And don't even get me started on how they have to apprentice for a year  and are video graded on the scores they give by their respective association while our industry almost promotes "you pick mine and I'll pick yours" among judges who also breed cattle. Sorry I digress.

Anyway, I wonder why the flash  is not only accepted in horse shows but expected, while obviously it is frowned upon by many in cattle shows?

One thing I do know is that the number of cattle shown in many if not all areas of the country is down and going down farther. $8.50+ corn, $4.00 and rising diesel fuel, the cost of a truck, trailer and show supplies, the growing gap between the "haves" and "have nots" are all part of the reason that the hog and goat projects have sky rocketed. If this cattle showing isn't as fun as we can make it, it will continue to dwindle. It costs too much for it not to be. I am of course a guy, but if I were a little girl, it looks a lot more fun to dress up and lead a blinged up pony around than to lead a calf around in my every day attire. Just a thought. Worth no more than anyone else's.

 
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