Western Wear

Allens Boots boasts of an excellent selection of western wear for those of you looking to expand your closets a little bit.  After all, buying a pair of cowboy boots and plopping them down next to your Keds and under your Dockers in your closet does not make you look like a true Texan.  You need the entire ensemble to truly look like you’re engaging in some serious Western spirit embodiment.

Adopting a “look” might sound somewhat limiting.  In some situations, it is.  Thankfully, Western styles are sufficiently diverse enough, both among brands and within brands, that there’s a host of routes you and your wardrobe can take.  Wearing Western wear is an excellent opportunity to express yourself within a particular style.

Take the Western shirt, for example.  The Western shirt is widely recognized and is an iconic element of Western style, culture, and experience.  With its emphasis on (often elaborate) patterns, touches of stitching, and nearly ubiquitous pearl snap buttons, the garment as a genre is fairly well established and easily understood.  However, there are many ways different shirt-makers will go in their interpretation of this classic style.

For evidence of this, look no further than the wildly different looks employed by Panhandle Slim and Zagiri.  While the former operates within relatively strict bounds, offering traditional patterns and cuts and drawing deeply from the cowboy aesthetic, the latter opts for a much more high-class, almost urban and sleek riff on the style.  Zagiri shirts have can have elaborate stitching and patterning, just like typical Western shirts, but they’re almost used as mere reference points to make a garment more inspired by traditions than following them.

Of course, none of this is to imply that we prefer Panhandle Slim shirts over Zagiri ones, or vice versa.  Instead, the goal here is to point out that, even within the relatively strict-sounding confines of Western wear, there’s plenty of room to express yourself.