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A running braid is a variation of French braid, braided along the crest of the neck. It is used on long-maned horses, and is usually seen either when a baroque horse breed competes in dressage, or in hunter and dressage classes for horses that are otherwise required to show with a long, full mane.
The head and neck are allowed to be held at a natural position, thought the handler may subtly raise or lower the head a bit to flatter the individual horse. Most sport horses now show on a "triangle" pattern, allowing a view of the horse going toward and away from they judge as well as a side view of the horse in motion.
Polo ponies have their manes hogged and their tails plaited up before a match, so that the polo mallet will not get tangled in them. Formerly, their tails would be docked and banged. Today, polo ponies in competition often have their dock trimmed or shaved, and the skirt of the tail is braided and folded up against the tailbone. The braid is ...
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‘This is a form of protection, our roots, and a tradition left by our ancestors,’ Rihanna says about having her hair in braids
My ex told me he thought (but wasn't sure) the reason that braiding became popular in competitive riding was that when equestrianism at the Olympics was opened up to civilian riders in 1952, civilians were expected to braid or trim their horse manes instead of intruding on the military privilege of sporting full-flowing horse manes, and that as ...
Consider the humble side-view mirror, once an optional add-on, now a safe-folding, lane-watching, self-defogging marvel of technology. And like the vehicles it's attached to, it's much bigger than ...
Men in ancient China wore their hair in a topknot bun (Touji 頭髻); visual depictions of this can be seen on the terracotta soldiers in the Terracotta Army sculptures. They were worn until the end of the Ming Dynasty in AD 1644, after which the Qing Dynasty government forced men to adopt the Manchu queue hairstyle (queue order).