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PRODUCTS: Fashion Week in Paris
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Reporting on Fashion Week in Paris, German Vogue focuses on Isabel Marant’s 2012 Winter Collection, described as easy-going Western-Style. … |
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And if the Snow Alert App sends you up Little Cottonwood Canyon above Salt Lake City, you might just get a glimpse of this gal … Caroline Gleich … professional skier, model, and lots of other stuff … |
PRODUCTS: Hey Doll, Where’d You Get That Kachina Dress?
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My-West’s fashion savvy friend, Diane, turned us on to the latest fashion to hit Paris this year. Japanese designer Issey Miyake who was inspired as a youth by Japanese artist Isamu Inokuma’s paintings and sketches of Kachina Dolls, has created a new line of summer clothing based on those early sketches. |
PRODUCTS: Find of the Day: On the Fringe
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Now all you need are the legs and the skirt to turn a few heads! |
PRODUCTS: Head Concho – What a Waist!
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The Navaho especially had a penchant for personal adornment and in their quest for raw material the artisans would even melt down US coins which at the time yielded the best silver for smithing….(kind of makes you wonder what kind of sludge they’d come up with if they tried it these days!). |
PRODUCTS: Shop ‘Til You’re Saddle Sore – Five Favorite Online Western Shops
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In 2001, I defiantly predicted that Online shopping would go nowhere because people need the tactile senses…touching fabric, trying things on. But thankfully more imaginative minds prevailed because the following sites are a pleasure to browse through…come to think of it, that’s what browsers are for. |
PRODUCTS: Vintage Find: Nathan Turk Embroidered Shirt
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Nathan Turk known as the “cowboy tailor” created custom western couture for Tom Mix, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, the Maddox Brothers, Patsy Cline, Elvis and many other country-western entertainers from the 1930s through the 70s. Like Bolin, his shop was near Hollywood and his flamboyant outfits were as loud as the customers who wore them. |
APPS WRANGLER: 50 Western Movies
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Joshua the Black Rider … A Taste of Evil … Three Bad Men … The Good, the Bad and the Ugly … Yuma (with Clint Walker) … Bonanza – The Spitfire … Known and obscure, famous and infamous, this little app gives you easy and immediate access to 50 movies about the American West. |
PRODUCTS: If a Gal Can Swagger, This is the Dress for It
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Admit it, there is not a girl in the West who doesn’t like the sound, feel and swagger of a swooshing dress. High fashion in the 1950s, the Squaw dress, also known as the Fiesta dress, Patio dress, Rick-Rack dress, and the Patsy Cline dress was breezy, comfortable and it swooshed when you walked. |
PRODUCTS: Vintage Find of the Day: Pick up the Gauntlet
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Whether demure or daring, cowgirls who saddled up for the ranch or just rode out for a stroll were always in style with these hand tooled gloves. For women who had a passion for the outdoors, protecting their skin was a challenge. Besides the obvious protection from the weather, the right gloves allowed them to handle rawhide reins, ride through tall grasses, brush willows aside, pick up baby calves, or slap a man if they needed to... |
PRODUCTS: Vintage Find of the Day: Cowgirl Gloves
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Elizabeth Taylor wore them in Giant, Stetson gloves from the 1950s. Visible stitching down the backhand gives these wrist-length gloves the “cowgirl” look that supports Miss Taylor’s role as a ranch wife in Texas. Nothing finishes an outfit like a pair of gloves for that ‘pulled together’ look that is so uncommon, but so attractive. You can wear these gloves to create your own style and look charming year around. |
PRODUCTS: Vintage Find of the Day: Bohlin Buckle Sets
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If you don't know Edward H. Bohlin, you certainly know his tack and saddles. Owner and founder of Edward H. Bohlin, “Saddlemakers, Silversmiths, Hollywood, California,” he was the ‘Silversmith for the Stars’. Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Tom Mix, Buc Jones, The Lone Ranger, and John Wayne were among a few of his clients. |
PRODUCTS: Vintage Find of the Day: Handmade Boots
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Custom Hand Made, pre-owned cowboy boots. Wear with your best swirl skirt, jeans skirt or cut offs…these boots are beauties and are begging to be seen. |
PRODUCTS: Vintage Find of the Day: 1950s Mexican Tourist Jacket
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Gorgeous worn with your favorite pair of jeans, this classic two tone appliqué jacket made by “La Mexicana” is an unusual design with white on the front and red on back. A rare find, it is adorned with hand embroidery and appliqués of sombreros, cacti, clouds and hills. Another great find at Etsy. |
PRODUCTS: Vintage Find of the Day: Make a big splash!
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PRODUCTS: White’s Boots – These Boots are Made for Workin’
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...The shop owner told me that the best way to break them in (outside of actually working in them, perhaps) was to put them on and soak them through so they’d form to my foot. So, in the afternoon, after a game of catch with my son, I put on my new boots and stepped into Billings Creek for a soak. And that is the exact moment my Uncle Robert chose to stop by and catch me, shirtless, with nothing on but cut offs and a pair of White’s Boots reaching almost up to my knee caps…standing in the middle of a creek. He flashed his trademark million dollar smile... |
PRODUCTS: BP Spurs: Guaranteed Against Complaint or Defect
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by Jim Poulton I must confess to a bias. We’re talking about my big brother. Among all kinds of other things he’s done in his life, he’s a spur-maker. He makes them by hand in a little metal working shop he’s built on his ranch in southern Utah. You’re probably asking: Spur-making? By hand? They still do that? And the answer is Yes they still do that, but ‘they’ is only a few guys in the world. It’s a dying art. And my brother decided several years ago that he was going to help preserve it. And take a look at these spurs ... |
PRODUCTS: Cowboy Coffee - The Pony Espresso, Part Two
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“... I doubled the dosage, two heaping tablespoons for each cup and two heaping for the pot. I cracked an egg and cupped out the yolk and dropped shells and white into the pot, for I know nothing that polishes coffee and makes it shine like that. The air was still very cold, and a cold night was coming...” John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley That’s not a recipe for coffee. That’s a recipe for happiness. |
PRODUCTS: Cowboy Coffee - The Pony Espresso
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The West wasn’t won by tea drinkers. |
APPS WRANGLER: Country Living Treemail
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Now here’s an app whose bark is better than its byte. What a clever idea and just in time for Valentines Day. |
PRODUCTS: Puttin' the 'High' in High Country
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The High West Distillery, Park City, Utah “Don’t mix good whiskey with water – unless you’re out of good whiskey…” - Texas Bix Bender How do you critique a whiskey you’ve never tasted? How do you reflect on flavor and aroma and finish when your preferences in booze have always favored quantity over quality? Well, you defer to the sober opinions of the experts. |
PRODUCTS: Traditionally Modern: Wadell Trading Co., Fine Native American Jewelry
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A family-owned success story spanning three generations, the humble 1940s trading post in Gallup, New Mexico has evolved into the Waddell Trading Company of Scottsdale, Arizona, source of the most marvelous and innovative array of collector quality Hopi and Navajo art and jewelry available. |
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Keep your guitar in perfect tune…recommended by Rosanne Cash…and also by musicians. ... |
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Clean your favorite black dress and cure the hangover you got wearing it. ... |
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You didn’t know there was a two-story outhouse in Moab, Utah? Or a “Monument to the Flying Paper Boy” in New Mexico? ... |