Thank you for your ongoing patience regarding our waiting list, good news is it has reduced slightly to around 5-6 week. As always please do get in touch before you order, if you have a date that you require your order by.

Thank you for your ongoing patience regarding our waiting list, good news is it has reduced slightly to around 5-6 week. As always please do get in touch before you order, if you have a date that you require your order by.
Which would you choose?
With 6 different colours to pick from it can seem like a hard choice. So below are images of each colour to help aid you in your decision.
Head over to our shop page to see the avalible sale skirts. There are limited cololurs and sizes avalible across our full range of products, most of the skirts in the sale have end of line fabrics, meaning they are truely ‘one of a kind’
We are excited to announce that we have paired up with Prestige Sporting UK
About Prestige Sporting UK – They offer fun in the countryside, specialing in organizing ladies events in the North, including clay and game shooting, simulated game days, fishing events, and more.
Our walking skirt collection is growing and we are excited to introduce some new additions. Firstly we have the original walking skirt which has a new name ‘The Compass’ because which ever way you go you’ll stay dry.
With making room for our new 2024 show stock. Which will include fresh new designs and colours, perfect for any country outing.
The final few ex-demo walking skirts and riding skirts have had a further reduction in price. We have also added our Woodland ear warmers to our sale, perfect for keeping you warm during this freezing weather!
Our 12 days of Christmas sale is drawing to a close but don’t worry the skirts will stay live for the whole of December.
All the sale skirts are ex-demo and make for a perfect opportunity for you to grab yourself an early christmas present or why not nudge your other half into getting you one.
Thank you to everyone that is being patient on waiting for orders and thank you to those that have recently placed new orders, it means the world to us here at Nouvelle Habit.
Every year I like to put a list together of some Christmas gift ideas. This list consists of a mix of gifts, ones that I’m secretly wishing for, some are from business I have met over the last year and loved their products and some I already own!
We have a few more shows booked for this summer and they are fast approching.
Firstly- Mid Devon Show, at Knightsayes, Chettiscombe, Tiverton. It is a one day show on the 22nd July, you will find us in the Magpie tent. This is the first year attending this show for us and we can’t wait. It is always such fun doing the shows and always when its your first year. As always we will have samples of walking skirts and riding skirts for you to try on.
During the making of ‘The Moorland’ riding skirt, I had the idea that it would be great if you could get a wax cotton walking skirt.
Myself and my partner love to go camping and walking and are not put of by the weather. My partner has some water proof trousers but I don’t as I hate the idea of wrestling my muddy boots off to then peel off wet trousers. The idea of the skirt was much more appealing. The skirt would have a similar design and concept to ‘The Moorland’ a wrap around waxed cotton skirt that I could simply pop on and off over what ever Im wearing and hang it up easily to dry when I was finished.
Thank you to Rural Life magazine for this lovely feature of ‘The Moorland’ riding skirt. If you would like to view the online Spring issue click the link below
Hand made with love
All our skirts our hand cut and sewn by myself ‘Odette’ I’m the founder, designer and owner of Nouvelle Habit.
Here are some of the reasons I choose to hand make every skirt.
This traditional method of waterproofing fabric has definitely stood the test of time. The waxed cotton look has become intertwined with traditional English past-times and the look reminds me of being in the country side.
Are you looking for some Christmas shopping inspiration this year?
I have put together a little list of my top gifts that I would love to see under my Christmas tree this year.
This was photo-shoot No4.
I was excited about this shoot for a few reasons; one being, I love moorland, especially Dartmoor. Two, it was going to be the first time having two models and to see the Navy and Vintage brown side by side. And finally, it was the first shoot where a model already owned her skirt, so we would get to see it once the wax cotton has been – broken in. It is one of the things I love about wax cotton is how it becomes more supple and soft as it is worn.
For our 3rd shoot, we were up in North Wales in a breathtaking location on the edge of Halkyn Mountain.
My Photographer for this shoot was the extremely talented, Martha Lily photographer. I was excited to work with Martha as I had been following her Instagram account for a while, as she offers super photography tips and, I had been trying to improve my skills. So I was looking forward to meeting her in person.
Our 2nd shoot was up in Peterborough with the wonderful Jody and her handsome horse Ferguson. Our photographer for this shoot was Laura Fiddaman, who has a great style of capturing beautiful natural photos.
After the fun we had doing our original photo shoot, I wanted to organize a new shoot but using a new model, new horse and new photographer. I wanted to offer the opportunity for some of you guys to be involved and so I put up a post on social media asking if any one would like to model with there horses. It was lovely to have such a big response, but I then had the task of picking.
Throughout the design process I was inspired to create all sorts of extra finishing touches.
As Nouvelle Habit, my dream business came closer to reality; I decide that I would make sure that those little extra finishing touches were part of my final product.
The official photo shoot was coming up; I had everything crossed that the weather would be kinder this time.
I booked two full days to give us a greater chance of good weather, hoping to get the shots I needed for the launch of my website.
Celine, my friend was flying down from Glasgow to model for me. Avril would be my photographer and I was going to direct and be on horse duties. The Nouvelle Habit branded clothing had arrived and looked stunning thanks to Team Equestrian
I buckled down to designing the straps for the skirt fastenings.
I wanted my design to mirror the shape of my logo, to have in-built slits as keepers* so as not to have to attach keepers.
On the morning of our test run I washed Jester from head to toe, much to Jesters disgruntlement. I carefully wrapped him up and hoped that I had done enough to keep him clean in the January Mud! The location was at Kate’s (my lovely yard owner’s) house, which was a 10min hack up the road. As we set off, a thick cloud of drizzle rolled in over us… Not ideal.
Prototype No13. Mon pièce de résistance!
I finally achieved what I had been aiming for in my final design, the one that ticked all the boxes. The one that looked exactly the way I had pictured it in my mind’s eye. So it was full steam ahead to get my test riders in skirts and out on horses.
I was really stuck on this for a long time; I had my business name but the inspiration for my logo just wasn’t there.
After being given a book on symbols, signs and visual codes by my dad the idea came to create my own Coat of Arms. I spent the next few days reading as much as I could on Heraldry and the meaning of colours, animals and flowers to help me create one that I felt would represent my business and me.
In the run up to my launch date, I had a huge dilemma to resolve. Which was going to be the best route for my business? Me, hand tailoring every skirt or, finding a manufacturer that would reflect everything I wanted my business to be. As with most things there are pro’s and con’s.
For the first time ever, Jester was only a 5 minute drive from my home and now that he was fighting fit, we could start riding again. This gave me the opportunity to ride every day in my skirt and to start putting it though some vigorous testing. Come rain, shine or even snow.
After Christmas my horse ‘Jester’ fell very poorly and had to be taken into hospital to have fairly big head surgery, which involved the removing of a large tumour. The operation went well but poor Jester then had a fairly long recovery period, confined to his stable.
Prototype No10 turned out to be everything I had hoped for. So the next big thing was to figure out the best weight of fabric …and the best solution to keep it secure while riding.