Foxhunting [ Games & Sports ]
… began adopting many of the rituals and vocabulary of older hunting practices and was transformed into a fast-paced and fashionable pursuit. Practices > Games & Sports Mots-clés Animals Elite Hunting Sports Women Hunting had been the … (London, 1782), p. 214. As with all high status hunting, fine clothes were an essential part of the experience, with the fashionable Leicestershire hunts leading the way in the respect, as in so many others. A travel writer commenting on the … but in the final decades of the century, foxhunters switched to red coats that are now their hallmark. For example, the fashionable Taporley Club in Cheshire, founded in 1762, switched from blue to red coats in 1769, at the same time as they …
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