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06/2005. 24 pages.
0896725499
978-0-89672-549-2

Western Wear: 1850 to 2000 (Calendar 2006)

Edited by Sally Queen

Historic Fashions Calendar 2006

"A bonafide calendar which offers something practical, but the real point is to show off Western fashions. . . . The calendar is useful, the photos colorful, and the accompanying narrative interesting."—East Texas Historical Journal

The era of the great trail drives lasted only twenty short years, yet no figure has taken a greater or longer-lasting hold on the popular imagination than the American cowboy—and nothing is more evocative of the cowboy than Western dress. Much of what we know as Western wear is rooted in the working attire of the cowboys who rode the trails—broad-brimmed hats, boots with spurs, fringed chaps, tooled leather belts, bandanas, and stiff denim. All of these survive, not only on working ranches, in rodeos, and in Western films but also in mainstream dress and haute couture.

Yet as these twelve North American collections attest, Western dress includes much more than what the cowboy wore. It ranges from the deer-hide leggings and dresses of Sioux and Comanche men and women, still made and worn for special occasions, to a 1925 rattlesnake-skin flapper dress made by a Greeley, Colorado, woman known as Rattlesnake Kate. Flip through this stunning calendar for a sampling of the best that Western wear has to offer.