western shirt

Snap-button country top

A western shirt is a style of button-up shirt associated with American cowboy and ranching culture.

Distinctive features typically include a yoked back, snap buttons instead of regular buttons, pointed pocket flaps, and sometimes decorative embroidery or piping.

The style originated as practical workwear but became fashion through country music and Western films: He wore a pearl-snap western shirt to the honky-tonk.

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Known to kids · Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G