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28 S U M M E R 2 014 U N TAC K E D 2. Your Gloves OK, these gloves may not be individu- ally customizable, but if you're looking for a great present for your Pony Club or Young Rider team or a membership gift for the organization you chair, an order from Custom Gloves USA would quite literally be the perfect fit. Custom Gloves can apply any logo you choose to your gloves' Velcro closure and print text on the thumbs or fingers, or they can apply a logo or digital image across the full back of the hand and down the fingers, covering up to 95 percent of the gloves' surface. They offer models in cabretta leather or synthetic or a combination thereof, and you can also take your pick of full leather, pebble grip, stretchable flex panel across the knuckles or ventilated fingers. And coming soon from Custom Gloves USA: personalized half-chaps! Visit customglovesusa.com/ designs/ for more information. THE CLOTHES HORSE 8 Things You Didn't Know You Could Customize Monogrammed collars and personalized helmet covers have long served as creative outlets for riders, but these days the sky's the limit when it comes to customizable equipment. B y K AT N E T Z L E R 1. Your Whip Or Crop Whether you're a color-crazed eventer or a classical dressage queen, the perfect personalized whip for you is out there: You just have to build it. ProCush, a subsidiary of Old Mill Whips, primarily makes rac- ing bats for jockeys in the U.K., but they also offer an eventing model. They're fully customizable, from the color combination to the embroidered text (why stick to just your name when you can go with your personal motto or a favorite quote?) to the national flag emblem on the popper. Plus, ProCush offers a junior model too. And in spite of its rather specific name, U.S. brand Signature Spurs offers crops as well— everything from the custom-colored jumper bat to the classy monogrammable dressage whip. If you're going for the former, be prepared to make a lot of tough decisions, because when Signature Spurs says "custom," they mean it. You'll be able to select a main color from 18 options, a secondary color and a piping color; determine your bat's overall length, flex level, handle style and wrap; pick your popper type, material and even the color of its stitching and string; and, oh yeah, add a monogram to your end cap as well. The dressage whip (black only) and Signature Spurs' leather hunter bat (black or brown) are much more modest, but they'll still bear your initials in the classiest of manners. Visit saddlery.biz for ProCush pricing and ordering informa- tion, and go to SignatureSpurs.com to check out that company's wide variety of options.

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