Most modern retailers of Old West period clothing seem to sell only “banded” collared shirts, yet old photographs show cowboys did wear shirts with collars. When did cowboys begin wearing these shirts?

Most modern retailers of Old West period clothing seem to sell only “banded” collared shirts, yet old photographs show cowboys did wear shirts with collars. When did cowboys begin wearing these shirts? R.D. Alsop Clinton, Missouri Shirts with and without collars were around long before the cowboy era. Cowboys didn’t much care which style of shirt they wore; they wore whatever they could afford or get their hands on. In the 1880s, they even purchased Army shirts from soldiers and post trade