Even if you aren't trying to go full cowboy, a Western shirt is a very important essential to have. Most of the time, a Western shirt is a denim button-down, with design details like a pointed ...

Things are a little different for "college boys" — a term frequently used derisively by the true Western-wear set, by the way — who buy their "cowboy" shirts in the mall at American Eagle.

I always figured that cowboy shirts — Western shirts — have always had snap buttons. I mean, Roy Rogers wore snap-button shirts, right? So cowboys must have been wearing them ever since there ...