Giddy-up Cowboy

I grew up in the Southwest. Cowboy hats were de rigour and no one thought anything of it.  In fact, I thought it was normal everyday wear for men. Until I went to the East Coast. And nary a cowboy hat did I see. In fact, I feel fairly certain, that anyone sporting cowboy hat, faded Levis and a good broken-in pair of boots would most certainly have been given the askance glance by the mobs of black/gray/white wearing fast-track speed-walker business suits of say, New York City or Washington D.C.

That is, if the said city slickers would have noticed long enough to look up from their mad-dash cell phone sprints to bother to see a cowboy.  There is, after all, a reason Crocodile Dundee resonated...

For me, a good Stetson hat, blue jeans and comfy cowboy boots have a sense of comfort and home. They mean slower (not necessarily less effective) moving, less rushing, more sunshine and wild flowers and maybe a touch of horsiness.  

Vintage brass horses or ceramic horse statues, vintage tee pees or other travel souvenirs are evocative of grass roots and earthiness. They connote solidness, steadiness, staunchness--someone you can count on. Okay, they might also conjure up rodeos and roughnecks, Dancing with the Wolves and Little House on the Prairie.  But that can't be all bad, right?

For a Southwestern flair to your home styling, add some vintage western wear or equine detailing.

A vintage collection of two cowboy hats circa 1960s, a wigwam/tee pee
diorama, and two vintage horse sculptures.