OT- Old photo of an over dressed cowboy. WOW!

rangerider7 · Post by **rangerider7** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 9:44 pm

I just couldn't help but show this guy to y'all. This old photo was taken in England. If this is what they thought an American cowboy looked like they must have just attended Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in London and got carried away at the local haberdashery.

salvo · Post by **salvo** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 9:46 pm

That's just not right

Bogie35 · Post by **Bogie35** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 9:47 pm

bogie

O.S.O.K. · Post by **O.S.O.K.** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 9:48 pm

I didn't know they had gay cabelleros back then

kimwcook · Post by **kimwcook** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 9:56 pm

Wow! Who'd of thunk it. If he showed up on the range wearing that get up he'd get skinned. Or have deep pockets to pay everyone off.

rangerider7 · Post by **rangerider7** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 10:01 pm

I'm dating myself but he reminds me of Bob Hope in the movie "Buttons and Bows" with Jane Russell or was it "The Paleface". It could have been "Son of Paleface." Oh well, he was dressed funny in one or all of them.

salvo · Post by **salvo** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 10:04 pm

I don't know, for some reason he reminds me of Bullwinkle the moose

mescalero1 · Post by **mescalero1** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 10:15 pm

Want to hear something scary?
I have seen guys dressed like that in Phoenix, Az.

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 10:52 pm

Well, at least now we know the origin of the appendix position.

pokey · Post by **pokey** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 10:54 pm

i can see by your outfit..........

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 10:56 pm

Maybe he was on his way to one of those fancy BBQ you fellas are always talking about!

Malamute · Post by **Malamute** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 12:56 am

I think I saw a guy dressed sorta like that in Jackson once.

NonPCnraRN · Post by **NonPCnraRN** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:33 am

Wasn't he a member of the Village People? Macho, Macho, Man............

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 4:15 am

[quote="rangerider7"]I just couldn't help but show this guy to y'all. This old photo was taken in England. If this is what they thought an American cowboy looked like they must have just attended Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in London and got carried away at the local haberdashery.

/quote]

Darn it rangerider, I thought I looked pretty snazzy in my younger days!!!

phc45-70 · Post by **phc45-70** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 5:21 am

To quote Rex O'hurlahand (the singing cowboy) just moments before he shoots the guns out of the hands of 3 bad guys, "How a person dresses is no ones business but his or her own"

mescalero1 · Post by **mescalero1** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 8:15 am

Phoenix I can go for, lots of wierds there, but Jackson?

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 8:51 am

Reminds me of a girls I once knew.

RIHMFIRE · Post by **RIHMFIRE** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:14 am

I think I saw him on a Benny Hill show

Bill in Oregon · Post by **Bill in Oregon** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:38 am

Guessing about 1910 or so? Doesn't look much sillier to me than Roy Rogers or Clayton Moore in their tight-fitting suits and stirrups on their trouser cuffs to keep their pants in their boots.

FWiedner · Post by **FWiedner** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 10:04 am

Eh, I bet he's goin' to one o' them Texas BBQ's and didn't have a purty gun, so he decked out the rest of what he could reach.

Sarge · Post by **Sarge** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 10:17 am

Sort of a demented cross between Tom Mix and Liberace

Thanks for posting these great old photos, Rangerider.

Bogie35 · Post by **Bogie35** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 10:19 am

game keeper wrote:
rangerider7 wrote:I just couldn't help but show this guy to y'all. This old photo was taken in England. If this is what they thought an American cowboy looked like they must have just attended Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in London and got carried away at the local haberdashery.

/quote]

Darn it rangerider, I thought I looked pretty snazzy in my younger days!!!

bogie

Bogie35 · Post by **Bogie35** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 10:24 am

Was "Brokeback Mountain" based on a true story?

bogie

jnyork · Post by **jnyork** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 10:55 am

mescalero1 wrote:Phoenix I can go for, lots of wierds there, but Jackson?

Been to Jackson lately? Aint what it used to be!

BTW, not much different in fact from what I have seen at some Cowboy Action shoots.

mikld · Post by **mikld** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 11:05 am

Heck, I've seen that kind dress quit often in Hollyweird!

Post by **Old Savage** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 11:10 am

He's a dandy.

cowboykell · Post by **cowboykell** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 11:28 am

Over the road trucker !!

Gun Smith · Post by **Gun Smith** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 11:31 am

OK, we've all had our fun. Now lets get serious! What is the revolver in the "holster"? I'm thinking a British Bulldog type, or maybe a Belgiun double action of some sort.

Grizz · Post by **Grizz** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 11:43 am

what happens in England
stays in England

until the internet

O.S.O.K. · Post by **O.S.O.K.** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:38 pm

Did you notice his revolver is a bit short of the holster? Looks like one of those places you go - they have all of the clothes and such and you get duded up for the pic

Boy did he get taken!

Gun Smith · Post by **Gun Smith** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 8:57 pm

It's pretty obvious this is another photographer's studio picture. The props are all too new and unrealistic for any real use. I doubt the "leather" is nothing more than oil finished cloth, similar to what was used on table cloths. In film terminology this would be known as a gallery print.
The location of the holster on the belt would not be usuable for riding and, as someone mentioned, cut for a much larger gun. The whole custom appears to have been made for an early stage play, and our nobile young man the "hero of the west"!

JohndeFresno · Post by **JohndeFresno** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 2:13 pm

Like they say in California...
DUDE!

Doc Hudson · Post by **Doc Hudson** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 3:16 pm

rangerider7 wrote:I'm dating myself but he reminds me of Bob Hope in the movie "Buttons and Bows" with Jane Russell or was it "The Paleface". It could have been "Son of Paleface." Oh well, he was dressed funny in one or all of them.

I might be wrong, it has been known to happen once in a long while

, but I believe the movie you are thinking about was Paleface, Bob's character was "Painless Potter, the Painless (& incompetent) Dentist. i believe "Buttons and Bows" was the name of one of the songs he sang in that movie.

i can still remember "Painless" hiding in a rain-barrel shooting blindly through the bunghole during an Indian attack. Jane Russell, shooting from a window over the barrel shot a big stack of Indians, and everyone else thought "Painlessss" was a fearless sureshot hero. Great movie.

About the photo.

The hat isn not to my taste, and the shirt is rather garish, but dammit all I kinda like the boots! They look mjch like the 16th and 17th Century Cavalry boots I've always wanted. You also have to admit, with boots like those, a fllow would have little need of chaps.

Let's just be thankful he's not wearing Woolie Chaps.

And that dangling revolver, isn't that an English-made DA of some sort?

soon 2 retire · Post by **soon 2 retire** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 9:09 am

You guys should show a little more respect for "The Frisco Kid".

Bob in NE Indiana

Birdman · Post by **Birdman** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 11:02 pm

I don't know what to say on that one, but once again thanks for the pic.

20cows · Post by **20cows** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 11:18 pm

but dammit all I kinda like the boots!

Me, too.

pokey · Post by **pokey** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 11:29 pm

Doc Hudson wrote: but dammit all I kinda like the boots!

then you must need some of these.

https://www.westcoastshoe.com/wesco/

20cows · Post by **20cows** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 11:46 pm

I'm guessing you mean these:

Wrong heel and sole. I actually wear these most days, but I thought they were too light colored (sore thumbish) so I dyed them dark brown.

The dudes boots look like they'd hold spurs just fine, too.

Buck Elliott · Post by **Buck Elliott** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 1:11 pm

Ow....! Oh, my eyes; my eyes...! ! !

bogus bill · Post by **bogus bill** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 1:43 pm

Melcomb Peabody the III, The dareing black sheep nephew of Lady Madellen Tittel recently expelled from his fortnight holiday to honolulu for attempted molestation of island sheep is merely proudly exhibiting his colorfull scarf and blouse, souveniers of his travels to the wilds of the pacific!

Buck Elliott · Post by **Buck Elliott** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 2:56 pm

That outfit makes Mike Venturino's Hawaiian flowerty shirts look tame by comparison.

RSY · Post by **RSY** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 4:57 pm

Doc Hudson wrote:And that dangling revolver, isn't that an English-made DA of some sort?

It does look like some sort of Webley, perhaps, doesn't it?

Scott