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|29 Mar 2019|4 mins

Women of the West: The Cowgirls Influencing Our Style

Saddle up and get yourself some Western boots

The viral video of the yodelling Walmart kid may have melted our hearts and sparked our love for the cowboy look last year, but our obsession for the Western wasn’t just a spur of the moment type fling.

Everywhere we look we’re seeing more and more rodeo-inspired looks – some that are as subtle as peasant-style dresses, corseted tops and pointed-collar shirts, and some that are less so, like the return of actual cowboy boots, but made for the city scene.

Street style inspo thanks to @hildasandstrom via Instagram

But who was our original inspiration? Actual cowgirls, of course. Think real-life women of the west, like Calamity Jane, Lizzie “Cattle Queen of Texas” Johnson, and Cattle Cate (born Ellen Liddy Watson), the ones who defied gender expectations of their time and ruled the frontier, as well as our on-screen Western heroes too.

Sophia from Cannon for Cordoba, 1970, played by Francine York.

Hannie Caulder, 1971, played by Raquel Welch.

Louise and Marie from The Legend of Frenchie King, 1971, played by Brigitte Bardot and Claudia Cardinale.

Sissy Hankshaw from Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, 1993, played by Uma Thurman.

Maria Alvarez from Bandidas, 2006, played by Penelope Cruz.

Mattie Ross from True Grit, 2010, played by Hailee Steinfeld.

Ready to get boot scootin'?

Ready to get boot scootin'?

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And the rest of your get-up

And the rest of your get-up

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Eliza Concepcion
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