Western Wear 1850-2000

Historic Fashions Calendar Series
Sally Queen, Editor

Much of what we know as Western wear stems from the early working dress of American cowboys -- broad-brimmed hats, heeled boots with spurs, fringed chaps, tooled belts, bandanas, and stiff denim. These survive on working ranches, in rodeo and Western films, in popular dress and haute couture. Yet, as these collections attest, Western wear is much more. The traditional deer-hide dress of Sioux and Comanche men and women; a snakeskin flapper dress made by a Colorado woman known as Rattlesnake Kate; glittering performance costume by Nudie Cohen and Rodeo Ben -- these and many other examples do much to explain why the American West still captures imaginations worldwide.

Our "book-on-the-wall" featured the following collections and their objects of American Western Wear:

National Museum of American Cowboy
Oakland Museum of California
City of Greeley Museums
Buffalo Bill Museum, Buffalo Bill Historical Center
Museum of the American West, Autry National Center
Phoenix Art Museum
Kansas City Museum
Missouri Historic Costume & Textile Collection
Museum of the Rockies, The Caroline McGill History & Textile Collections
The Plains Indian Museum, Buffalo Bill Historical Center
The Heard Museum
Fashion Study Collection, Houston Community College

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