Wife and I were at a Boot Barn (western store) yesterday and I'm now seeing that the old western shirts for men and ladies with snaps, instead of buttons, and no button-down collars, are making a comeback. Back in the early 80's or so, I had some. The lady manager had on a western shirt with piping and snaps on it. Now, that, to me, is very old looking! Don't remember when, but many western stores replaced the snap shirts with the "buttons" and "button-down" collars. George Strait, the singer and roper, made them popular, as well as Garth Brooks and some others. All of my casual shirts now, western and regular, are the button type. Have a few dress shirts that are regular collar. Only men that I've seen nowadays wearing snap shirts are older men...….many older than myself. Whether it's at a country-western nightclub or a rodeo, the men and women were wearing "button" type shirts. Don't know why the "snap" type shirts have made a comeback. The Cinch Jean Company has their own jeans out today, but the jeans remind me of the old men's/women's Jordache Designer jeans. I looked at a pair yesterday...……"no thanks!" Will stay with my Wrangler Cowboy Cut ones. I remember when I had a old flashy Brooks & Dunn (singers) shirt. Got rid of that some time ago. Flashy shirts and me just don't get along! LOL
I've always liked the snap shirt but most of the ones that came with snaps instead of buttons were also very gaudy, and I have always been a brown-black-gray kind of guy.
Well, Holly, some folks prefer some things, even types of clothing, over another. There are ladies that absolutely won't buy/wear a low-cut top. Many young women love them. Neither my wife or her female relatives will buy/wear them. The word "cool" came back to our language, but my wife's older sister absolutely won't say it. American western tv stars Roy Rogers and Gene Autry wore snap shirts full of decorative piping on their shows. That was way back then, but today...…...
OH I'm only pullin' your leg Cody...kinda.., but it is a little bit of stretch to be checking out buttons and comparing them to a woman's low cut top... I hope you don't mean my avatar BTW....that's not me.. ( well it is my face).. but it's an app call Face in the hole, you just add your face to any body.. it's a bit of fun..
No, wasn't talking about your avatar, BUT, if I get that app, can I look like Harrison Ford? LOL Actually, we stopped at the same store (Boot Barn) when we were in Cheyenne, Wyoming and that is where I first seen the snap shirts. I simply couldn't believe how many were on hangers for sale. Then I seen the same thing at our local Boot Barn. Some things a person just never thinks will return and then it does. Some like the return, while others think it's pretty weird.
Fashion changes, even western fashion. Fashion is where somebody else decides what's best to wear. In a way fashion is like the stock market, somebody tries to guess what stocks will rise and what willl fall. Sometime they're right and everybody jumps on it, it is seen in all the stores. Your favorite whatever wears it, so we want it, want to look that good in our duds. There are locations and people who tend to do their own thing regardless of the days fashion. Fashion can come and go, yet some will not change. Sometime fashion swings in a circle in some areas of dress or the way we wear our hair, it's liken to what we wore at some point recently to the way we wore it in the fifties maybe. I have more or less worn what I liked, but at times I have been swayed by fashion. For instance, I prefer a two button sports coat or a two button suit coat to the three button which has become popular. I'm going to keep wearing two button jackets even if the whole country switches. So in that vain, snaps on shirts seem flashy, pretensous, even back in the day when there were a lot of snap-shirts around, I thought of them as being gaudy and somewhat tasteless. Today, when I think of clothes, I tend to consider what's best to wear for certain jobs or events. There was a time in my part of the world when jeans were not seen as suitable wear for grown-up men. Kids wore jeans. I recall a country song that seems to bear that out. Waylan Jennings in one line of one of his songs, wrote, 'going on forty and still wearing jeans." So a man or a woman can wear what's fashionable if they like it or they can roam arounnd the country looking for those little anthills or pockets of people who only wear a certain type of clothing and then further sub-deviding that style into different brands, i.e. Wrangler vs Levi; snaps vs buttons. I sometime wonder, too, if they, like me, are living in the past too much and/or merely fixated on a certain fashions of the past, and perhaps greatly influenced by marketing ads that swear to us sharp toed boots make a better cowboy than round toed or roper style boots. It seems more desirable to me to wear what you like regardless of what others wear and try to find some common ground on the other issues of life. Otherwise it can be costly, disappointing, and maybe a waste of time because these little pockets of people carrying around a certain type lariat are drying up and harder to find. If I may say so, like myself, sometime we can get fashion struck and here in this year of our Lord, when I do, it seems rather childish. When I'm that way perhaps folks should feel sorry for me and hope I get over it.
Actually, in both of these Boot Barn stores, I seen some women's boots that really, really appeared that they came right out of Los Angeles and/or Beverly Hills. Really wild looking. Not a single women that I've ever known, who owns/works horses and/or cattle, would be caught dead with these "Hollywood" looking boots on. My wife's sister has a pair of short white boots that have fringe on the side. I bought my wife her first pair of Roper brand boots when we first met. She was wearing pointed-toe ones and she was happy to get rid of those. She told me, "My old pointed-toe boots looked way to city for me. I love my Roper boots!" I knew a lady, years ago, that loved tops adorned with decorative stones. Thank God my wife doesn't like tops like that. Then again, this same lady like wearing numerous finger rings. My wife only wears her wedding set and that is totally fine with me. It's no wonder that my wife got along so well with the rodeo crowd I knew. She wore nothing Western that looked "big city".
At one time I had a pair of Jordache jeans. At the time, they looked really, really cool. Then I got involved with rodeo and the Jordache jeans went to the Goodwill. Had a couple pair of Levi's, but after buying a pair of Wrangler Slim Fit jeans, and riding my horse in them, I completely switched over to Wrangler jeans. Wranglers felt a whole lot better in the saddle than Levi's did......to me anyway.
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@Holly Saunders What a cool app!! @Cody Fousnaugh My brother purchases his western wear from Amazon. They have a big selection. The advantage is their program of trying on clothes before you buy them. They send you what you want so you can find the fit you want, then you can send back what you don't want in the return box they provide. The prices aren't bad either, not compared to Boot Barn.
We went to Boot Barn to purchase two felt cowboy hats. We both already have one, but wanted another. A nice one for church, going out to dinner or other nice occasion and the other to wear to Walmart, out to breakfast, a rodeo or whatever. We have a Boot Barn credit card.
Any remember Tuff Nut Jeans and save the cards and get a knife. Also Robucks from Sears save the buck cards and get a free pair. Wranglers here daily but admit I had a pair of Dickies that did fit well. Don't like the square toe boots here either, for me #1 is H&H brand. Most of my shirts do have snaps!