Clothing and Fashion
Well assembled bedroll helps you when traveling light
Back in the days of the Old West, a cowboy’s bedroll was much different than we imagine as overnight travelers, hikers, or campers today. Today’s bedroll generally means a hastily thrown together and rolled up sleeping bag, perhaps with a pillow and additional blankets tossed in, maybe even including a good change of underwear and one day’s outerwear. We strap all this together and shove it into the trunk of the car, or if we’re real outdoors adventurers, onto a bicycle, motorcycle, or horse.
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Horse riding boots or cowboy boots — find great deals on eBay!
Whether you call them horse riding boots or cowboy boots, you’ll always find great bargains on a huge selection at eBay. As the world’s largest auction site, eBay offers western wear, cowboy clothing and apparel, horse riding boots, and horse saddles and tack, and other horse gear of every kind.
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Find great deals on cowboy hats at Amazon.com
Find great deals on cowboy hats and other western clothing at Amazon.com.
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A cowboy shirt topped list of things I wanted as a kid
A cowboy shirt topped the list for awhile of all the things I wanted as a kid. Of course the childhood passion I had for a cowboy shirt was closely followed by cowboy boots (with a jangling pair of spurs, of course!) and a great six-gun cap gun and holster set.
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Today’s horse riding boots differ greatly from Old West footwear
Today’s horse riding boots differ greatly from footwear in the Old West. Boot making and shoe making technology and materials are radically different today than they were on the Plains or prairies of the 1800s. Today’s boots offer comfort and fit unknown back then.
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Western belt buckles blend utility, show
Belt buckles are a relatively modern invention, and Western style or cowboy style belt buckles blended utility with the desire to show off or “fancy up” things and dress for going out on the town. The utility of a belt and buckle was that it plain and simply cinched up the pants, while offering a convenient place to tuck in a sidearm, or wear a holster. The showmanship or dress-up aspect came about as silversmiths and other metal workers found ways to shape, carve, and engrave pictures and symbols into the buckle, turning it into a fancy ornament, a piece of acceptably “manly” jewelry for cowboys and others in the Old West.
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Ever wonder why Abe Lincoln wore such baggy pants?
A friend of mine who’s quite a Western writer in his own right tipped me off to a great book, and a snippet of information in that book actually discusses clothing and fashion in the Old West — with a clever explanation of why old Abe Lincoln so often appears in photos wearing baggy pants obviously in need of a good pressing.
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