Talk:riding dress

RFD discussion: July–August 2022

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riding dress

As defined, just a riding dress. Maybe there is a type of dress called a riding dress, but as it stands this is SOP Zumbacool (talk) 18:57, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Delete the current definition per nom, it is entirely SOP, referring to things like

• 1829, Henry Edwin Dwight, Travels in the North of Germany: In the Years 1825 and 1826, page 337:

  When he enters his lecture room, he is usually clad in his riding dress, consisting of a coat, light buckskin pantaloons, long boots and spurs. He has also a riding whip in his hand, and in his dress presents very little of the […]

comparable to someone's battle dress (clothing worn for battle), parade dress / parade uniform, etc.
Iff it has a second/other sense referring to a specific article of women's clothing with particular attributes, like a riding habit, and not just any dress worn for riding, that's different. - -sche (discuss) 15:30, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

Keep. The citation is not the same as the quote above, it specific A riding dress. This was also used for various styles of women's dress in the 18th-20th centuries. Also in the OED. Ƿidsiþ 10:11, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

Can you improve the definition? I don't doubt there's an idiomatic sense out there, but "Something worn to go riding..." sounds SOP... - -sche (discuss) 05:16, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

Well I had a go. Ƿidsiþ 14:56, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

• Kept after the rewrite Dunderdool (talk) 23:49, 22 August 2022 (UTC)