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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get it OP! I grew up in semi-rural California and my best friends family is super horsey ranchers and basically design their financial lives around being able to do horse stuff despite the fact that they are not rich. I can't imagine how they would deal with frou frou east coasters who think it has to do with gear and clothing![/quote]

ya, so for them it is about having the right kind of gear, **at the right AGE** (it can't be new, it has to be very old but properly maintained, and [b]they will hunt down used things second hand rather than buy them new for this reason[/b]) plus JUST right type of outdated techniques / "style" of performing a particular move. Similar to raising your pinky finger when you drink tea. Not only do people NO LONGER do that, but many of the people who do are wanna be posers. But they love this sort of ^%@#: "look at me, we do things the way others have wanted to imitate for generations! tally ho! "

THAT is what I do not want to teach my children. Ever. Ever. Ever.

I felt guilty about it, but now I don't.

Thank you. [/quote]

Op here again just to give an example: they will troll classifieds for a YEAR if need be to find a very particular piece of equipment, but then once they have it, they casually pretend its always been part of their gear, perhaps used by an illustrious relative, etc. Whereas I might say, OMG, yeah, isnt that gorgeous, they don't make them like this anymore and I felt really lucky to find this after some effort (although max i would put in is a couple of random searches over lunch over a month, and then it would be off to the store or catalogue for me)

The level of pretense is just tremendous. [/quote]

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