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Thanks fellas. My wife has had a turquoise colored Ortega's coat since the early 1980s. It hasn't seen the light of day for a long time. Not sure if it is faded or just needs a cleaning.
Did the same 11 years ago and still going.I've moved to exclusively pearl snap shirts, mostly short sleeved, and I love them, though nothing ostentatious. Very plain and understated. Though I like them and that's good enough
Don't know if it was a Joe McCoy or not but I remember having a shirt like this in a buckskin suede. Most of the time I wore it untied just like shown here.
Someone probably mentioned it already somewhere between pages 2 and 14, which I skipped over, but I remember Roy Rogers explaining one reason, at least, why he wore those fancy outfits when performing. The simple answer was so it would make him seem a little bigger and more noticeable on stage. I don't know if he actually started that trend or not but I don't recall any photo from before around 1940 of Western entertainers wearing fancy things like he did later on. In fact, many Western Swing performs didn't even wear western-style clothes at first but more college-style things. Later, though, he and his band always wore Western outfits, though not exactly cowboy gear.
Where I grew up, anyone who owned horses wore cowboys hats and boots and jeans. One person, whose name was the very appropriate sounding "Jody Whittaker" had a stable a block from the house and kept horses. He could be seen going up and down the street with a team of horses and wagons but I otherwise know nothing about him and I never saw him actually ride a horse.
You just reminded me of Every Which Way But Loose, with that song. THANKS! Hahahaaa! YES!Viola, you reminded me of a song by Mel Tillis
"You're just a Coca-Cola Cowboy, you got an Eastwood Smile and Robert Redford Hair..."