Let’s Rodeo

Wild West shows and frontier rodeos are largely responsible for the distinctive styling and flare seen on cowboy shirts today. The arena cowboys initially wore plain and coarsely woven “linsey-woolsey” and cotton ticking ranch work shirts. The iconization ofTexas-born cowboy William Levi “Buck” Taylor, Buffalo Bill Cody’s protégé, helped pave the way for flashier and eventually idiosyncratic cowboy shirt styles. Starting with Buffalo Bill’s first Wild West show in 1883, T