1865 Reproduction Riding Habit

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Posting a Wikipedia link goes against my morals and ethics, but... MOR suggested it.
Frances Isabella Duberly - Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Isabella_Duberly

There's a picture, but can't say if it's the one being discussed.

Thanks Ted!

Yes, this is the redoubtable "Mrs. Jubilee" as the troops called her. What's interesting is the apron worn over her legs... it must have been insufferably warm (hot?) in the Crimea, to say nothing of India.

[Bugbear]

* Never mind, off topic. *

[Mike_Oettle]

Seeing this inquiry called to mind a book I once read titled The Bishop’s Lady, an account of the life of Sophy Gray, wife of the first Anglican bishop of Cape Town, Robert Gray.
She often travelled with her husband as he went about his vast diocese (initially it included both Natal and the Eastern Cape, although he did not himself visit Natal, and new dioceses for these regions were created in 1852).
Mostly she rode in a Cape cart (much like a Scotch cart), but in some areas the roads were inadequate, and she and the bishop rode on horseback.
She typically wore a green riding habit, under which she usually had chamois riding trousers – but since it was regarded as unseemly for a lady to wear trousers, she kept this a closely guarded secret.
Regards,
Mike