Saveguard

"BURIENSIS" (No. 13. p. 202.) is informed that a *saveguard* was an article of dress worn by women, some fifty or sixty years ago, over the skirts of their gowns when riding on horseback, chiefly when they sat on pillions, on a *double horse*, as it was called. It was a sort of outside petticoat, usually made of serge, linsey-wolsey, or some other strong material: and its use was to *guard* the gown from injury by the dirt of the (then very dirty) roads. It was succeeded by the well-known riding-habit; though I have seen it used on a side-siddle by a rider who did not possess the more modern d…