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Subject: That helps explain a lot of it

Date: Thu 21/06/18 18:23:41 GMT

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Thank for the great explanation. That answers a lot of my questions and I'm sure the wife would love to see it just because of her love of large horses. Wish we lived closer, but I think the photos you see online afterwards are probably the best way to see great wetlook from the event.

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Some info for you, jetwetfun

By jollywetfellow - Thu 21/06/18 17:30:34 GMT

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Here's what Wikipedia makes of it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appleby_Horse_Fair

That's a bit bland; I've read a fair bit about it in newspapers and magazines over many years, because of the wetlook pictures frequently displayed next to the articles having caught my attention! Basically, the great looking ladies are gypsies. Many would argue that the gypsies (or Romanies) who deal in - and in some cases travel about pulled by - horses, which presumably includes most of these ladies, are a higher class than the usual scrap dealers.

This is the big social event of their year, where they all get together; though there are no organised events, apparently gypsy weddings frequently occur; in addition, it is no doubt one of the main places where the foundations are laid for next year's weddings, if you get what I mean. Plus its probably the only time in the year when they are 'in the public eye' in a big way - and a mostly positive way; most of the time in the UK gypsies are regrettably subject to a lot of prejudice ("pikeys" is the usual derogatory name these days).

So I think the probable reasons they are dressed up are:

1) Best chance of the year to catch the eye of a young man from another gypsy family;

2) Going to a wedding or similar later (or earlier);

3) Want to look their best for the admiring public, photographers, etc;

4) Or simply because they want to look a bit special for the biggest weekend of their year.

As for the photographers - well, its something a bit different, a bit exotic, and part of the ancient traditions of the north of England, I guess. Most of them do seem to do a lot of the gritty northern stuff in the rest of their output (though I believe a couple may actually be gypsies themselves), either that or lots of country pics.

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Like to know more about this

By jetwetfun - Thu 21/06/18 14:55:32 GMT

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These are great finds. I'd like to know more about this Appleby event. Does anyone know what it is for and how it draws such great looking ladies who are dressed fairly nice for being around horses and who know they are likely to get wet? Also, the pictures posted of this event are always beautiful images so it must draw some great photographers who know how to handle harsh lighting conditions and are good at editing.

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Found some more from Appleby

By jollywetfellow - Thu 21/06/18 10:51:41 GMT

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These albums contain quite a few good ones:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/antrowe/albums/72157668105141277

https://www.flickr.com/photos/billcoulsonphotography/albums/72157696181180851

And some individual ones from other collections:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127470263@N08/41839069275/in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127470263@N08/42688582592/in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127470263@N08/42737867151/in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127470263@N08/28864314458/in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127470263@N08/41999998044/in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127470263@N08/28841084448/in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127470263@N08/42714747681/in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64742149@N06/40889239880/in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64742149@N06/27829988007/in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64742149@N06/27829990377/in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64742149@N06/40885940140/in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64742149@N06/41795863355/in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64742149@N06/42646392672/in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64742149@N06/42646395052/in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64742149@N06/42646407782/in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64742149@N06/27826889527/in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64742149@N06/42646413902/in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64742149@N06/42646459562/in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64742149@N06/41977448374/in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64742149@N06/41796090735/in/dateposted/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64742149@N06/42646467762/in/dateposted/

These are the best ones I think, but there are others in each photostream.

Not quite sure if this is strictly wetlook or not, but I also liked this one in the street of the big girl who appears in the water in quite a few of the others - notice that her jeans have partly dried, but are still noticeably wet where they are in contact with the horse:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimmonk/28035060347/in/dateposted/

The usual warnings about other real life people appearing in some of the pics apply in all cases.

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