b'DID YOU KNOW, IN THE OLD WEST.By Lee Anderson, Old West Living Historian, Award Winning Author, and Old School HorsemanLee Anderson and his horse, Concho, are well known around the state doing presentations in schools,corporate events, and civic events. Learn more about them and his book on his website. historicaloldwest.orgO ther than theA boarding house, a placeup for sleeves that were too short, were military, therethat served meals, or amissing buttons (which was often), or were were no uniformseamstress were aboutbadly frayed. Contrary to what is usually dress codes in the old west. Money was notthe only business venturesassumed today, those leather cuffs had plentiful so, most people, including cowboys,available to women in thenothing to do with preventing rope burns.wore whatever they could beg, borrow, find,Old West. Seamstresses were make themselves, or maybe even steal. Infew and far between andFrontier life was hard on everybody and Victorian times, an important part of a youngtheir hand-made clothingeverything so a major problem with ladys bringing up was learning to sew andwas expensive. Most of aclothing in the early west was durability. make clothes. So, just what did people in theseamstresss business involvedIn 1853 Levi Strauss capitalized on this old west wear and, more importantly, why? altering store-bought clothessituation when he offered California to fit better. In the 1800s,miners pants made of sailcloth (basically The first consideration is that a store thatclothing manufacturing wasa light canvas) with copper rivets at the sold nothing but clothing of any kindin its infancy. Sizes were notpoints of high stress. To this day, Levis jeans let alone specialized clothing like todaysyet standardized so store- still have copper riveted stress points.sporting goods and Western wearbought clothing seldom ever stores was rare in the Old West. Clothingfit properly. Shirt sleeves andIn 1886, partners Richard Warren Sears and stores were typically located in the bigpant legs were nearly alwaysAlvah Curtis Roebuck founded their mail-cities where there was a larger market andeither too long or too short. order business in Chicago and revolutionized more money. Most of the towns closemarketing. It might take a month or so to enough for farmers and cowboys to get toSleeve garters were popularget it but people anywhere in the country, were often merely a combination saloonbecause shirt sleeves wereespecially in the West, could order not only and general store that sold anything andoften too long. However, inclothing but nearly anything else that was everything (if and when they could get it)a cowboys line of ruggedmanufactured in the East. Also, a good many and there was precious little selection inoutdoor work, the sleeveSears and Roebuck catalogs wereuhany of it, including the booze. An excellentgarter, made of fabricshall we say repurposed (?) in an outhouseexample of just such a typical town is theand elastic, wouldnt lastto be used as toilet paper which wasntone portrayed in the 1953 movie, Shane. very long. Cowboys often wore a leather wrist cuff thateven invented until 1857 and was a pretty rare item innot only kept long sleeves out of the way, but it also madethe Old West. 0% /72SA SERIES TRACTORS*PRODUCT QUALITY*Offer subject to change without notice. Subject to credit approval. Contact A to Z Equipment for all terms and conditions.Call, Text or Visit.Four Valley LocationsNorth Valley Central Phoenix East Valley West Valley15634 N. 32nd St. 4050 E. Indian School Rd. 1313 E. Baseline Rd. 803 E. Van Buren St.Phoenix 85032 Phoenix 85018 Gilbert 85233 Avondale 85323602-992-1150 602-955-5100 480-539-8700 623-925-020012 May 2021'