I have these pleasant visions of great chamois leather pants and white button shirts with a golden layer of dust.. it's what I'd wear if I needed to be out, getting my legs scratched up, needed to be able to go from sweaty & unbuttoned to well covered whenever a stranger came by.. and it could be stolen from most cowboy's closets. I'd have a cotton dress for town though.
Even with our rather militant history with the indians, some of their style slipped into western-wear.. hard to argue with what's worked for hundreds of years. Mixed white-indian families probably wore whatever.
as far as fashion history.. things changed in stages & some would have happened in most any history -the invention of the bloomer
-art and fashion deciding fuck billows, we want elegant shapes around the 20's. Lots of people responsible for that, so probably would have happened in most any history..
-Rosie the Riveter going to the factory in her man's place for WWII
-If I remember right, the invention of the bra happened because of a shortage in corset supplies during one of the world wars
-and those crazy hippies with their birth control and their free love. The masses finally had a chance to get to know their freedom and their sexuality.
I'm assuming that widely available perscriptions aren't in your timeline, and you're still dealing with a woman-scarce wild west enviornment?
You probably aren't comfortable showing off your womanhood unless you have some sexual history & you're very able to defend yourself.
If I had the money to costume myself the way I wanted to, it woudl indeed be chamois pants (or very well-fitting button-fly jeans), a white band-collar dress shirt, straight-line or fitted close but not snug to the body, a vest in brown suede or chamois, and a duster.
For looking pretty... I dunno. A nice cotton dress sounds like a nice idea, though.
What we're looking at is 50, 70 years in the future, after a as-of-yet-completely-described appocalyptic war, with technology reverted to a wild-west level.
it's what I'd wear if I needed to be out, getting my legs scratched up, needed to be able to go from sweaty & unbuttoned to well covered whenever a stranger came by..
and it could be stolen from most cowboy's closets. I'd have a cotton dress for town though.
Even with our rather militant history with the indians, some of their style slipped into western-wear.. hard to argue with what's worked for hundreds of years. Mixed white-indian families probably wore whatever.
as far as fashion history.. things changed in stages & some would have happened in most any history
-the invention of the bloomer
-art and fashion deciding fuck billows, we want elegant shapes around the 20's. Lots of people responsible for that, so probably would have happened in most any history..
-Rosie the Riveter going to the factory in her man's place for WWII
-If I remember right, the invention of the bra happened because of a shortage in corset supplies during one of the world wars
-and those crazy hippies with their birth control and their free love. The masses finally had a chance to get to know their freedom and their sexuality.
I'm assuming that widely available perscriptions aren't in your timeline, and you're still dealing with a woman-scarce wild west enviornment?
You probably aren't comfortable showing off your womanhood unless you have some sexual history & you're very able to defend yourself.
Yes, I had an hour to waste *chuckle*
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If I had the money to costume myself the way I wanted to, it woudl indeed be chamois pants (or very well-fitting button-fly jeans), a white band-collar dress shirt, straight-line or fitted close but not snug to the body, a vest in brown suede or chamois, and a duster.
For looking pretty... I dunno. A nice cotton dress sounds like a nice idea, though.
What we're looking at is 50, 70 years in the future, after a as-of-yet-completely-described appocalyptic war, with technology reverted to a wild-west level.
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