Western Apparel in Hollywood

We are long overdue for a remake of 1980′s Urban Cowboy. That’s right, Urban Cowboy, cowboy boots on city streets, and all. It’s not that the movie is a classic or anything; though it has plenty of good scenes, thanks in part to the western wear-enhanced style of John Travolta and Debra Winger; we need that movie to come re-ignite western apparel mania. Seriously.

You will recall, or learn right now if you have yet to see the movie, that a young John Travolta plays country boy Bud, who has turned a stay in Houston at his uncle’s into a full blown move to the city. Bud trades in his cowboy boots for refined boots when he gets hired where his uncle works. He spends his nights dressed to impress in his best western wear, two-steppin’ and drinking at Gilly’s. That, of course, is where he meets up with Sissy, played by Debra Winger looking all the hot little lady in her finest western apparel and smile. Sissy and Bud date, fall in love, and get married, a bit quickly. Then things get messy as they add a former convict, some burglary plans, and the infamous electric bull to the action. No need to wear my cowboy boots thin by trudging through the whole story, get it on Netflix and enjoy. What’s important here is how downright fashionable western wear can be; think of those denim-clad ladies, and the cowboy boots and hats on men and women alike.

Back in 1980 when Urban Cowboy first came out, it kicked off a western wear craze. All of a sudden everyone on the whole east coast had a pair of cowboy boots, classic point-backed western wear style shirt, stove pipe tight jeans and a cowboy hat, men and women alike. Many scenesters had custom cowboy boots made. Every high school had boys wishing they could ride an electric bull, and girls learning to Texas Two Step, and suddenly teachers were asking students to take off their cowboy hats inside, rather than ball caps. There’s been enough of the hip hop influenced baggy pant fashion scene of late; it is past time for western wear to again have a turn in the popularity spotlight. Imagine going down to your typical mall, say in Atlanta, and seeing stores selling western apparel. Maybe young kids would learn how to wear their pants properly if they had more exposure to western style jean wear!





If you have access to any Hollywood or independent filmmakers, tell them it’s time for a western apparel revival and that it is their responsibility to pull up their cowboy boot straps and ride the electric bull of re-making Urban Cowboy. We deserve to have our current fashion enhanced and few things can influence popular trends the way movies and entertainers do. Think of it, Little John in cowboy boots, crunking the country rap and Andre 3000 in a point-back shirt and cowboy hat Outkast-ing his hip hop country hits! Well, maybe we won’t go that far…let’s just start with the Urban Cowboy remake!

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