Western wear
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Western wear is a category of men's and women's clothing which derives its unique style from the clothes worn in the 19th century Wild West. It ranges from accurate historical reproductions of America
Woman wearing fringe jacket and hat, United States, 1953
Lawman Bat Masterson wearing a bowler hat. The bowler hat was later replaced by the cowboy hat.
1950s style Western shirt with snap fastenings of the type popularized by singing cowboys
Cowboy wearing leather chaps at a rodeo
Guayabera
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The guayabera is a men's summer shirt, worn outside the trousers, distinguished by two columns of closely sewn pleats running the length of the front and back of the shirt. Typically made of linen, si
Western wear
…these were frequently worn by movie cowboys like Roy Rogers or Clayton Moore's Lone Ranger. Derived from the elaborate Mexican vaquero costumes like the guayabera, these were worn at rodeos so the cowboy could be easily identifiable. Buffalo Bill was known to wear them with a buckskin fringe jacket during his…
Two guayaberas seen from the back, showing the alforza pleats and the Western-style yoke
Closeup of a pocket on a guayabera, showing the button and aligned alforzas
Cuban man wearing a guayabera c. 1956
Men wearing white filipina shirts in the traditional jarana Yucateca dance of Yucatán, Mexico