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Western wear is a category of men's and women's clothing
Clothing

A feature of all human societies, except perhaps the most primitive, is the wearing of clothing or clothes, especially in public. The primary purpose of clothing is functional, as a protection from the weather....
 which derives its unique style from the clothes worn in the 19th-century American West
American Old West

For cultural influences and their development, see Western .The American Old West or Wild West comprises the history, geography, peoples, lore, and cultural expression of life in the Western United States , most often referring to the period of the latter half of the 19th century, between the American Civil War and the end of th...
.

Western wear ranges from accurate historical reproductions of pioneer, mountain man
Mountain man

Mountain men were trappers and Explorations who roamed the North American Rocky Mountains from about 1810 to the early 1840s. Although primarily of Canadian or American origin, mountain men were of many ethnic, social and religious backgrounds....
, Civil War
American Civil War

The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several Naming the American Civil War, was a civil war in the United States....
, cowboy
Cowboy

A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks....
 and vaquero
Vaquero

Vaquero may refer to:* Cowboy in Spanish; Charro is a related term* Model name for a Dune buggy kit built Sand Chariots of Fullerton California in July 1969, it has a fiberglass body and custom frame for VW or Corvair components...
 clothing to the stylized garments popularized by singing cowboy
Singing cowboy

A singing cowboy was a subtype of the archetypal cowboy hero of early Western films, popularized by many of the B-movies of the 1930s and the 1940s....
s such as Gene Autry
Gene Autry

Orvon Gene Autry was an United States performing arts who gained fame as "Singing cowboy" on the Radio in the United States, in Cinema of the United States and on Television in the United States for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s....
 and Roy Rogers
Roy Rogers

Roy Rogers , was a singer and cowboy actor, as well as the founder of the famous Roy Rogers Restaurants chain. He and his third wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger , and his German Shepherd Dog, Bullet, were featured in over one hundred movies and The Roy Rogers Show....
 in the 1940s and '50s
1950s

The 1950s decade was the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive. The Fifties in the developed western world are generally considered social conservative and highly Consumerism in nature....
.

The most elaborate western wear is the custom work created by rodeo tailors
Tailor

A tailor is a person whose occupation is to sew and scissor menswear style jackets and the skirts or trousers that go with them.Although the term dates to the thirteenth century, tailor took on its modern sense in the late eighteenth century, and now refers to makers of men's and women's suit , coat s, trousers, and similar garments, u...
 such as Nudie Cohn
Nudie Cohn

Nudie Cohn was a Ukraine-United States tailor, known for designing rhinestone-covered suits and other elaborate outfits, to be worn by celebrities such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Gram Parsons and John Lennon....
 and Manuel
Manuel Cuevas

Manuel Arturo Jos? Cuevas Mart?nez or just Manuel is a designer for Rock and Roll and Country and Western singers.Manuel was born, Manuel Arturo Jos? Cuevas Mart?nez, on April 23, 1938 in Coalcoman Michoac?n, Mexico, and was the fifth of eleven children of Esperanza and Jos? Guadalupe Cuevas....
, which is characterized by elaborate embroidery
Embroidery

File:Kazakh rug chain stitch embroidery.jpgEmbroidery is the art or handicraft of decorating Textile or other materials with sewing needle and yarn....
 and rhinestone
Rhinestone

A rhinestone or paste or diamante is a diamond simulant made from rock crystal, glass or Polymethyl methacrylate.Originally, rhinestones were rock crystals gathered from the river Rhine....
 decoration.






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Western wear is a category of men's and women's clothing
Clothing

A feature of all human societies, except perhaps the most primitive, is the wearing of clothing or clothes, especially in public. The primary purpose of clothing is functional, as a protection from the weather....
 which derives its unique style from the clothes worn in the 19th-century American West
American Old West

For cultural influences and their development, see Western .The American Old West or Wild West comprises the history, geography, peoples, lore, and cultural expression of life in the Western United States , most often referring to the period of the latter half of the 19th century, between the American Civil War and the end of th...
.

Western wear ranges from accurate historical reproductions of pioneer, mountain man
Mountain man

Mountain men were trappers and Explorations who roamed the North American Rocky Mountains from about 1810 to the early 1840s. Although primarily of Canadian or American origin, mountain men were of many ethnic, social and religious backgrounds....
, Civil War
American Civil War

The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several Naming the American Civil War, was a civil war in the United States....
, cowboy
Cowboy

A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks....
 and vaquero
Vaquero

Vaquero may refer to:* Cowboy in Spanish; Charro is a related term* Model name for a Dune buggy kit built Sand Chariots of Fullerton California in July 1969, it has a fiberglass body and custom frame for VW or Corvair components...
 clothing to the stylized garments popularized by singing cowboy
Singing cowboy

A singing cowboy was a subtype of the archetypal cowboy hero of early Western films, popularized by many of the B-movies of the 1930s and the 1940s....
s such as Gene Autry
Gene Autry

Orvon Gene Autry was an United States performing arts who gained fame as "Singing cowboy" on the Radio in the United States, in Cinema of the United States and on Television in the United States for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s....
 and Roy Rogers
Roy Rogers

Roy Rogers , was a singer and cowboy actor, as well as the founder of the famous Roy Rogers Restaurants chain. He and his third wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger , and his German Shepherd Dog, Bullet, were featured in over one hundred movies and The Roy Rogers Show....
 in the 1940s and '50s
1950s

The 1950s decade was the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive. The Fifties in the developed western world are generally considered social conservative and highly Consumerism in nature....
.

The most elaborate western wear is the custom work created by rodeo tailors
Tailor

A tailor is a person whose occupation is to sew and scissor menswear style jackets and the skirts or trousers that go with them.Although the term dates to the thirteenth century, tailor took on its modern sense in the late eighteenth century, and now refers to makers of men's and women's suit , coat s, trousers, and similar garments, u...
 such as Nudie Cohn
Nudie Cohn

Nudie Cohn was a Ukraine-United States tailor, known for designing rhinestone-covered suits and other elaborate outfits, to be worn by celebrities such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Gram Parsons and John Lennon....
 and Manuel
Manuel Cuevas

Manuel Arturo Jos? Cuevas Mart?nez or just Manuel is a designer for Rock and Roll and Country and Western singers.Manuel was born, Manuel Arturo Jos? Cuevas Mart?nez, on April 23, 1938 in Coalcoman Michoac?n, Mexico, and was the fifth of eleven children of Esperanza and Jos? Guadalupe Cuevas....
, which is characterized by elaborate embroidery
Embroidery

File:Kazakh rug chain stitch embroidery.jpgEmbroidery is the art or handicraft of decorating Textile or other materials with sewing needle and yarn....
 and rhinestone
Rhinestone

A rhinestone or paste or diamante is a diamond simulant made from rock crystal, glass or Polymethyl methacrylate.Originally, rhinestones were rock crystals gathered from the river Rhine....
 decoration. (See also Nudie suit.) This type of western wear, popularized by country music
Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
 performers, is the origin of the phrase rhinestone cowboy.

Some western companies focus on maintaining cowboy
Cowboy

A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks....
 authenticity in their events, for example like Happy Pappy's Holdup outside of Hardin, Montana
Hardin, Montana

Hardin is a city in and the county seat of Big Horn County, Montana, Montana, United States. The population was 3,384 at the 2000 United States Census....
 for reenactments, staged events, and history tours.

Further reading

  • 100 Years of Western Wear by Tyler Beard and Jim Arndt (Photographer), Gibbs Smith Publishers (1993), ISBN 0-87905-591-X.
  • How the West Was Worn by Holly George-Warren and Michelle Freedman, Harry N. Abrams (2001), ISBN 0-8109-0615-5.