Fashion police! Those Stripes don't go with that Paint

Recently I posted about why I clip and blanket, and mentioned that Cash has his old Rambo blanket along with a nice warm under layer. Until recently, the under layer was a fleece sheet - one of the old-style ones with a closed chest and just leg straps. I think I've had that sheet for as long as I've had his Rambo, which is now 15 years (!!!!). For whatever reason, this year the fleece seemed too small for Cash, so Red inherited it since Red is one size smaller than Cash. This left me in a bit of a pinch for a lining layer for Cash.

I looked for another fleece sheet, but it seems like all the manufacturers have gone to "dress" sheets and are no longer making sheets that are intended as liner layers. I then purchased, from our new local Dover store (DANGER DANGER DANGER) a Rambo blanket liner with 200 g of fill. I got it home and put it on, only to find out that the Rambo liners do not go with the original Rambo blankets. Not only that, but they don't have a second set of Ds so that you can use leg straps with them... fail. So the Rambo liner got returned, and I spent my lunch hour with one of the very helpful folks at the Dover store as we sifted through every single option they had in a size 75. It went something like this:

*sorting through blankets*

Helpful Dover Person: How about this liner?

Me: It's lined with cotton. I want it lined with the slick Poly stuff so it doesn't rub.

*more sorting*

Helpful Dover Person: What about this stable blanket?

Me: The material feels really cheap. I know it's going to be used as a liner, but is there something a little sturdier?

*rummaging even deeper. Apparently every horse in south central Texas wears a 75?

Helpful Dover Person: How about this? (Holds up a Rambo Newmarket sheet that I've secretly been lusting after for years)

Me: Ooooh... 

Not going to lie, y'all. This sucker is THICK. It's HEAVY. It's obviously very well made (Horseware, how I love you), and it looks super warm. Also, I just love the colors. I was so tempted... and then I thought about how it would look on this horse:

I'm really not a stripes sort of guy. Maybe plaid instead?*

Alas, my sense of fashion got the better of me, and I put the lovely Newmarket fleece back. Instead, I ended up getting Cash a nice, plain, black Amigo stable blanket, which fits perfectly under his Rambo and is keeping him super toasty warm.

The Newmarket fleece might not look too bad on Paddington, though... ;)

*Photo courtesy of MC, because apparently I only take pics of Cash when he's covered in mud.