Wallflower Dispatches

Jodhpurs Nr. 52 by the Japanese company Haversack founded by designer Koji Norihidein 1998.
Haversack is readily available in Japan, and has a flagship store in Tokyo but is currently only stocked in a handful of places in Europe.
via Martha B’s NIBS blog

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Jodhpurs Nr. 51 by Carla Bruni-Sarkozy photographed for the September 2008 edition by Annie Leibovitz. This is the third example of the editoral directive: “when in doubt, put them in jodhpurs”.
Other examples include Kristin Scott Thomas, Paris Hilton (Vanity Fair cover September 2005), and Olga Kurylenko by Michael Roberts in Vanity Fair April 2008, who [...]

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Jodhpurs Nr. 50 by Kristin Scott Thomas – another shot by Annie Leibovitz for the Vanity Fair April 1997 special Hollywood edition.
See first shot below

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Jodhpurs Nr. 50 by John Langenus, in celebration of the World Cup which starts today in South Africa as this is being posted.
Here he is seen refereeing the first round match on May 30, 1928 at the Olympisch Stadion in Amsterdam, where Uruguay beat the Netherlands by 2–0 in front of 40,000 people. From left [...]

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Jodhpurs Nr. 49 by Kristin Scott Thomas in Vanity Fair April 1997, the special Hollywood edition.
Annie Leibovitz’s shot is one of a number of examples of what appears to be a Vanity Fair editorial maxim; “If in doubt, put them in jodhpurs.”
Granted, Scott Thomas had been nominated for an Oscar for her role in “The [...]

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Jodhpurs Nr. 48 by Ralph Lauren for an advertising campaign in the mid-1980s

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Jodhpurs Photograph Nr. 47 by Jacqueline Bouvier (later Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis) watching the competition at the Southhampton Riding and Hunt Club’s seventh annual horse show August 11, 1935 in Southampton, New York.
Spectactors include Jackie’s maternal aunt and uncle Franklin D’Olier and his wife Winifred Lee (sister of Jackie’s mother Janet Lee), Marian Raymond and [...]

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Jodhpurs Photograph Nr. 46 by Gwyneth Paltrow photographed by Mario Testino wearing Salvatore Ferragamo silk jodhpurs from his Spring 2010 RTW collection as seen in Vogue UK May 2010 issue

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Jodhpurs Nr. 45 by Louis Jourdan with Grace Kelly taking a break during the filming of  the romantic comedy “The Swan” posing for MGM’s in-house PR department. Helen Rose is responsible for the costumes, including the Jourdan’s jodhpurs.
MGM postponed the release of The Swan to correspond with the wedding day of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of [...]

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Jodhpurs Nr. 44 by Kawashima Yoshiko
Kawashima Yoshiko (1906-1948) whose Chinese name was Aisin Gioro Xianyu, with the courtesy name Dongzhen (= Eastern Jewel).
Her father, Shanqui, was the tenth Prince Su, who briefly ruled the Manchu of Inner Mongolia.
As Shanqui’s thirteenth child, she was given to Kawashima Naniwa, a Japanese military advisor when she was eight [...]

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