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SMART THINKING
With regard to dressing appropriately in the hunting and shooting fields, Netia Walker [Seeing red, October issue] tactfully suggests that “members of the field, when dressed down, do look more like a rabble”. So true. To be smartly dressed inspires confidence, both in the wearer and the beholder, that they care and know what they are doing, even if possibly riven internally with doubts.
Top-quality hunting and shooting attire has evolved to offer maximum protection against the elements and some of the inevitable risks encountered when hunting and shooting. For shooting, tweed once reigned supreme but the best modern shooting jackets are both smart and vastly better than tweed. Nevertheless, tweed breeks – plus-fours are more effective than plus-twos – quite rightly are still the best and most practical form of legwear and considerably more efficient at coping with rain than trousers, tweed or other material (therein lies scope for a debate about the relative
