/fa/ - Fashion

>>14281902
Great idea. One of my hats is this style.

>>14282351
Good hat, saving for later.

>>14281902
Here is another hat of mine.

>>14282359
Thanks! It is the Bushman style of hat, made by Akubra. It is from Australia, but it could still be made shaped like an American narrow-brimmed cowboy style hat. It's 3 1/4" inches wide, with a bound brim, and two little eyelets for chin straps for use while riding a horse, or for windy days. It does not come with a chin strap, though, as you have to buy one and put it on yourself. Here is a Bushman hat in black.

>>14282367
No problem! I live down in Texas and I'm thinking about trying out western-wear. Might be a hit or miss, but these hats are leading off to a good start.

>>14281902
hat, shirt, trousers and shoes

>>14282381
The actual color of my tan or mid-brown hat is closer to this picture, in fact. The one I posted above makes it look darker than it looks to me in person. Anyway, I don't typically wear much in the way of western wear, besides my collection of hats, usually atypically western themselves, rather than wide and heavily curled brims with the cattleman's crease on the crown. I often wear chambray/work shirts and jeans, and they happen to fit with my style. Infrequently, I even wear one of them with a tie, with a sports jacket, too, but that's a function I normally use my Open Road hat for.

Posting to spark some ideas and to get Red Dead out of the way. I'm in love with the jean jacket.

>>14281902
Jim core

>>14282395
I'd love to try a dark-brown version of that. Birthday's coming up in a few weeks and I might pay a visit to a store nearby.

>>14282407
His fits will always be better than yours just accept it faggots

I don't own one, but I like looking at pictures of Boss of the Plains style hats. They are considered the first cowboy hats, because that meant the first hat style meant for the occupation in America after the Civil War, although other hats were obviously worn by cowboys, from military style slouch hats, to Mexican sombrero styles, to bowler hats, to even top hat styles on occasion. In fact, the bowler hat is considered the hat that won the American west, rather than the cowboy hat as we know them today, due to how popular bowlers were in the cities, towns, and even while in the frontier people wore them, and probably wider-brimmed variants existed.

>>14282409
For the Bushman, by the company Akubra, that is the darkest they make that style of hat, besides just black after the Nullarbor Tan color, which is what that tannish-brown hat's color is called. Darker brown Akubras exist, most notably for the Cattleman (Outback style hat) and Federation IV (Fedora similar in proportions to Indiana Jones hats) types of hats, among their best sellers. The Nullarbor Tan color is not that light, though, and a silver belly (Light beige like most Open Roads) colored Bushman hat is sold, too, somewhere.

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>>14282431
Technically against op's rules, but throwing it in

I always thought this picture of a Boss of the Plains hat was cool.

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>>14282438
keep up with the hats, anon. It's interesting

>>14282441
Sure!

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I think this model is actually listed on Staker Hats website as a sugarloaf hat, not a Boss of the Plains, but it is very similar, just with a slightly lower crown or wider brim, and a more round-shaped crown, more tapered.

Here is a very nice, to me quite dressy BOTP hat. It looks to be in a silverbelly, light beige color listed on the site as bone.

Here is an antique BOTP hat from the early 1900s, I think. Most notably, it has two front creases. Most of these hats didn't seem to have any particular crease on them like that, but they existed even back then, sometimes.

River Junction sells this hat, I believe. It is their Abolitionist model, and is basically a lower crowned, wider brimmed top hat with a flared crown shape, with the reverse of tapering.

Here is another example of the Abolitionist style hat, named as such in reference to the era just prior to the American Civil War, in which abolitionists were a faction. This one is in black,.

Somebody believes that this picture represents another sugarloaf hat, the style of which was very popular in the Old West before, during, and a little after the Civil War, but I think the style largely got superseded by the BOTP hats, and later styles.

This is another variation of a sugarloaf hat, according to the photographer, but it may also be considered a wide awake hat, or even a Boss of the Plains, but I am not sure if it was made by Stetson or not, or meant to be a style copying Stetson's hat by a later hat maker.

>>14282476
Accidentally posted without the picture.

>>14282427
After looking up the dates of the magazines in this photo, it appears to have been taken in 1949

Here is an antique Mexican sombrero, similar to what is often considered the Gus crease of many modern western hats, although the Gus hats mostly have narrower brims.

This almost looks like a European alpine hat, like the ones from Tyrol and other south Germanic regions, yet with a wider, bound-edged brim.

This is a reproduction of a Clint Eastwood Man With No Name hat. Similar styles did exist during the 19th century, and especially the early 20th, but they usually didn't seem to have leather bands, and had silk or grosgrain ribbons, instead.

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This is an example of what I mean. It has a thin grosgrain or silk ribbon, rather than a leather band. It was one of Robert E. Lee's hats.

This is from before the Old West time period, more like the Old Old West, in which the West meant the Mid-West, going to the Mississippi River, rather than the West in America, going past that river. It was a straw Panama hat that belonged to Emperor Napoleon, while exiled on St. Helena island, where he lived out the rest of his days after the Napoleonic Wars ended post-Waterloo. Some hat makers sell similar looking styles to this one, and it has a very wide brim, probably over four inches width.

>>14282436
This material is acceptable, regardless of what I said. I'm dozing off, I'll look at these posts in the morning. Also whoever is posting about the hats, keep it on, you're not ignored.

Here is an example of a mid-19th century style working class shirt, made in the osnaburg material, which is a rough, unrefined cotton similar to linen shirts, burlap, and sackcloth. Many slaves wore shirts of such material, as well as working class people in general, especially the poorer one was. I might like to buy one like that, as it has old fashioned, rustic countryside qualities to it.

Here is an example of 19th century cowboy boots. It looks more plain and unembellished, compared to a lot of modern cowboy boots, as well as probably taller, and quite a lot like jackboots.

Here is an early 1900s BOTP hat. Notice how this one has a grosgrain ribbon and a leather band!

A unique form of mexican leather work, especially belts, embroidered with century cactus fibers is amazing. Vincente Fernandez has a holster with it.

>>14282483
I own two sombreros [one is a work sombrero, the other is a back-up work sombrero], and after 7 rain storms, wind, dropping it, drying it wet, etc. - It took on the form of a cowboy hat just due to wear and tear. I might post a picture of them.

>>14282709
this is a new, novelty party sombrero with a cheap string that almost won't fit under your chin. The weird fake embroidery is just a weak thread. The color of the dye almost rubs off on your hands. The crown is almost a perfect circle.

>>14282720
fuck. here it is. they're like 5 dollars.

>>14282722
here's the second one after wear and tear. The strong is now paracord with two gromets. rain sagged it so much that I had to pinch the crown and secure it with a safety pin. the straw's darker, and the dye stopped running months ago.

>>14282428
based Goldwater poster

>>14282523
i've been wanting some cowboy boots for a while but they all have corny fancy designs on them. where can i find some plain like these? although maybe not so tall.

>>14282801
I would suggest looking for low-key brown or black plain Roper boots, as they are called. While they are not 19th century style boots, they could look plain and functional, and still have some of that old fashioned, authentic cowboy style. Even regular cowboy boots could appear more plain. There are websites that offer them, as well as other sites that mainly focus on reproduction 19th century footwear, mainly American Civil War repros, or anything before and after that in the 1800s.

I have a dark brown mexican poncho/baja that works pretty good for western wear if you wear a tan button down shirt under it.

>>14282709
Very nice example of leather work!

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>>14282725
Nice! I don't own anything that could really be considered looking like a stereotypical sombrero, but I admire your courage! If you are not Mexican, or at least non-Hispanic, do you get any trouble from others over wearing one? Maybe funny comments, if not necessarily mean?

>>14282490
Well, there has historically been a german/alpine influence in mexico. a lot of german immigrants settled in northern mexico, often due to accidently crossing the border when it wasn't that defined. Their traditional music can still be recognized in the accordion-heavy polka like genres of norteño and tejano country music thats still popular in mexico today.

>>14282801
check out tecovas if you're in the states

Watch "The Rifleman" for good shit

w2c shirts like this for summer? I used to have a bunch that I picked up from thrift stores but I'm taller now so it's a little hard to find ones that fit thrifting.

>>14283216
If anyone makes them new that'd be even better, they're pretty thin so thrifted ones often have holes

>>14282833
If you are in an agricultural setting and carrying a yo-yo, no one says anything. As long as you don't actually say something racist and aren't a jerk, Mexicans don't care what you wear. Chicanos/Mexican-Americans might get pissy, but they can fick off.

If you ever want to get good leatherwork, silver, conchos or serapes, then actually go to Mexico. A passport card is like $65. Park on the American side, and walk across the foot bridge. I'm going soon for dental work at 70% off.

I priced some of the goods at the Reynosa marcedo, and it's like
- $8-12 for a technicoloracrylic serape [I thought they were chinese imports, turns out no, they are mass manufactured in Mexico],
- $50 for a hand woven wool serape from an artisan
- $6-8 for a good straw sombrero, and
- $40 for a tooth extraction.
- $5 for supermarket mezcal, and people literally buy 5 cases at a time, and just wheel it across the bridge, pay the tax, and take it home.
- $2-3 for licor de cana, which is white rum, and at the price equivalent of vodka to the Soviet Union.
- $12-20 for decent boots, but there's a point toe fad right now, so buy with forethought.
- $1-3 for a taco dinner. Real north Mexican tacos are just onion, cilantro, and a little scantly seasoned meat on one or two corn tortillas. A lot of people find Mexican food bland compared to Tex-Mex. You have to put lime or hot sauce on them. [like Valentina sauce, not tobasco].

>>14284167
Women can get dresses, but a lot of American women think they're crap because the fabric is lighter than what they can get at target in the states. They don't realize that Mexico is 20 or 30% desert and it gets fucking hot, so the fabric is light.
Also, no one wears a sombrero outside of work or rodeos. The felt ones are for charro competitions, and the straw ones [the most common] were for farmers. The class-divide associated with them is kind of fascinating.
If you buy anything, pay in pesos. If you pay in dollars, it's 50-75% more. It's not a scam, it's not an idiot tax. It costs money to exchange american dollars, and it's a pain in the ass. Mexicans can't pay their bills at home in dollars, so it's fucking inconvenient. Use pesos, they're pretty.

>>14283216
If you live in the Southwest, most westernwear retailers have those 70s style shirts in that thin fabric. Weirdly enough, I've been able to find double-knit polyester suits there too

>>14282423
Post more jean jackets. This is my shit

too larpy?

I'm looking for a nice temporary suede jacket to ease myself into western wear, something cheap and passably good looking.
Would this be a good choice for 70 USD with shipping?

>>14282523
Cool af. Tips on finding tall cowboy boots in europe?

>>14282400
that vest looks super duper out of place

like abercrombie tier denim and buttons

>>14282360
best hat bar none

>>14282519
What do you call this shirt style? "1/4 button up"? I've been looking for this

>>14282423
The FN FAL sure is a pretty /fa/ gun.

Any good straw hats? I really want one but good ones are hard to find

I feel like you gotta be one rugged looking guy to pull this shit off

>>14286403
For quality and affordability, I highly recommend Sunbody Hats, a company located in Texas. Their online store has a large variety of different palm straw hats.

>>14286412
including the haircut

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>>14282801
Shooter/stovepipe boots.
Check out boulette

Someone knows where to get the same hat ?

>>14285973
love this