Western Wear

Western wear

Western wear is a category of men's and women's clothing which derives its unique style from the clothes worn in the 19th century Wild West. It ranges from accurate historical reproductions of American frontier clothing to the stylized garments popularized by Western film and television or singing cowboys such as Gene Autry and Roy Rogers in the 1940s and 1950s. It continues to be a prominent style in the West and Southwestern United States, as well as among people associated with country music or Western lifestyles, for example the various Western or Regional Mexican styles. Western wear typically incorporates one or more of the following: Western shirts with pearl snap fasteners and vaquero design accents, blue jeans, cowboy hat, a leather belt, and cowboy boots.

Wear

Wear is the damaging, gradual removal or deformation of material at solid surfaces. Causes of wear can be mechanical or chemical. The study of wear and related processes is referred to as tribology.

western

Adjective

1. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.
2. Of a wind, blowing from the west; westerly.

Noun

1. (Should we move, merge or split this sense?) A film, or some other dramatic work, set in, the historic (c. 1850–1910) American West (west of the Mississippi river) focusing on conflict between whites and Indians, lawmen and outlaws, ranchers and farmers, or industry (railroads, mining) and agriculture.

wear

Verb

1. To have on.

Noun

1. Clothing.
2. Damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time.