Tag: Steve Weil
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Rockmount — maker of Western wear for rock stars and truckers — turns 80 this year
While most clothing labels follow the latest trends or aim to make new ones, Rockmount Ranch Wear is content with the Western style it fashioned nearly 80 years ago. Its Lower Downtown shop — showcasing the Western wear it spread around the world — is filled with embroidered denim shirts, flashy belt buckles, silk scarves,…
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Silver tip boots? Straw hats? National Western Stock Show fashion do’s and do not’s
The National Western Stock Show gives “city slickers” a chance to rub elbows with real ranchers, cowboys and rural lifestyle representatives. Once a year, they dust off their cowboy hats — which they likely bought in the 1980s when the movie “Urban Cowboy” popularized ranch wear. Now it’s the popular television show “Yellowstone” bringing western…
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An artful start to Stock Show’s special events
The 30th Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale returned Tuesday with the traditional Red Carpet Reception, a by-invitation soiree where some 900 guests gathered for drinks, dinner and the opportunity to have first crack at purchasing the paintings, sculptures and furniture created by 75 artists whose work celebrates the American West. Proceeds from the Red…