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 ...

He had a toy gun and holster, a cowboy shirt and a 10-gallon ... Or a gingham skirt. Or Western shirts. Or boots, leather, denim. "You can mix and match so many things with Western wear," says ...

Cowboy style emerged from a practical need for durable, hardworking clothing, and it drew from many sources, from Spanish American colonists to Union soldiers. Some of its most recognizable ...