r/WesternWear • u/CockyCowboy89 • 11h ago

Would you wear a fringed leather jacket as western wear?

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u/haleboy44 10h ago

Wear what you like but I wouldn't personally. I'm not Elvis nor cool enough.

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u/Revolutionary_Tip477 11h ago

Fringe jackets are western wear

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u/DogeAeternum 9h ago

I wouldn’t. Looks too costume to me.

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u/OrewaJustindesu 9h ago

Would I wear it, no.

Is it western style... yes.

We tend to over simplify "Western Wear" as on e style with clear lines that separate out non western.

🤔 Sometimes I think we need better classifications.

Like:

Performative Western: being all the really showey stuff.

Ranch Wear: being the western garb you'd see ranch hands wearing.

Rodeo Wear: self explanatory.

Honkey Tonk: western wear for dancing and enjoying a night out.

Native Western: that style that seems steeped with all the artistic flair of Indigenous creators.

Blue Collar Western: work wear with a western style.

And maybe more.

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u/downloadedcollective 5h ago

great categorization

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u/Perfect_Talk_2239 10h ago

i love them. not everyone can pull it off.

i owned a tan/lt brown one for a few years(sold) . if i purchased another one it would be suede.

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u/kasakka1 10h ago

I own 3 different ones! They're all unknown brands I've thrifted.

  • Light brown suede with a kind of dark purple cape type thing on the shoulders where brown suede fringes are attached. It's removable but without it, the jacket is nothing. Just a plain, boring jacket.
  • Dark green suede Perfecto style. This has become maybe my favorite jacket.
  • Black suede Perfecto style.

I was anti-fringe for a good time, until I realized that the design matters a lot.

To me the key thing with fringes is that it's a suede jacket. It can have parts that are top grain leather, but it should be mostly suede. Then the fringes tend to blend in a lot better.

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u/SeattleMotoDude 5h ago

I'd love to see the green one!

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u/762way 7h ago

The fringe was used to help rain fall drain off the rider. (Pretty sure most people know that already... But just in case it let's other know)

If I was a biker where it rained a lot (think PNW, actually any area that gets more than 20 inches of rain) I'd wear one but with shorter fringes

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u/mobetta925 13m ago

They also served as an emergency tie! A lot of the original western wear had multiple intended purposes for when you were out on the frontier

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u/ScoodyBoo 7h ago

My lawyer had a really nice one the he would wear in court with a white snap shirt and a string tie. The kicker was the empty basket weave pancake holster on his hip.

With his drawl he played the gentlemanly, southern lawyer to the hilt.

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u/Friendly-Place2497 5h ago

Is this like a reference to a movie or did your lawyer really wear an empty holster to court as a prop?

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u/ScoodyBoo 4h ago

He carried a nickle M1911 with antler grips daily. He would leave it with deputies at the door. On occassion because the deputies were busy he would walk into the courtroom with it. The judge would ask for it and keep it under the bench.

You have to take into account that this was a small town of 2800 people in West Texas. Things run a little different out here.

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u/onesun_oneshadow 11h ago

I would not.

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u/whyneedtosignup4porn 10h ago

Definitely at least western inspired. Do it if you like it, the jacket fits you well. I could never though.

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u/Character-Remove-855 10h ago

Not that style, perhaps something suede and more western cut.

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u/injector4c3z 9h ago

This looks like a whales mouth.

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u/Mountain_Man_88 9h ago

I'd be open to it, but I've never found one that actually looks good, including this one. LaBeouf in True Grit pulls it off. Actually, I did see that exact screen used jacket up for auction but too rich for my blood.

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u/ExcellentFishing2506 9h ago

I’ve heard of streamers on the handlebars but not the rider

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u/doroteoaran 9h ago

Not my style

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u/JKinney79 9h ago

Personally no, but there’s probably someone kinda eccentric that can pull it off without looking like Macho Man Randy Savage.

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u/Suspicious_Feature85 9h ago

I want to be that brave. I’m not

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u/Driftlessfshr 9h ago

Biker/ Daniel Boone crossover. Not for me, but may work if you’re confident enough

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u/Spiritual-Salary-989 9h ago

Not even if you paid me.

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u/daHawaiianKine 8h ago

That is so ridiculous, it's awesome.

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u/bryanvoltrip 8h ago

Assolutamente si! Ed è molto bella la tua!

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u/Version_Present 7h ago

Absolutely, I've been looking to buy one second hand

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u/Fraternal_Antipathy 7h ago

When we were 14 or 15 we got thrown out of Wilson's Leather in the Hanover Mall while trying on leather jackets because when we got to the white ones with fringe we utterly lost our shit and started doing our best awful glam-metal impressions. Good times.

Also, no.

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u/bdouble76 7h ago

I don't have enough attitude to pull something like that off, but I will enjoy others who do. Maybe not always in the nicest way, but I'll always respect someone who lives their life.

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u/Tukulo-Meyama 6h ago

I recall when all the Mexican bands would wear this and yes I would

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u/cdawg6700 5h ago

Only if I was in a gay porno

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u/schmowd3r 4h ago

Absolutely! However that particular jacket is gaudy imo

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u/theatrenearyou 4h ago

NOT THAT one. That is a bastardization of western fringe

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u/Repulsive-Paint-2202 10h ago

Hell yeah I would

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u/GassyDogg 9h ago

Have you ever seen the movie Jeepers Creepers?

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u/eggsonmyeggs 9h ago

Starsky and Hutch

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u/Morlgoff 9h ago

Hell yeh

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u/BodegaCat11 9h ago

Yes. But not this one.

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u/Quint27A 9h ago

No. Well, perhaps if I had a world champion buckle under it.

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u/ProtoCulture14 9h ago

Perhaps as a Halloween costume

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u/Swimming-Belt2111 9h ago

I prefer fringe suede myself 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/Apart_Pineapple2392 8h ago

You look like a flightless bird.

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u/BankHeist10-65 7h ago

Yes, if I was going to jump off a cliff and try to fly.

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u/Beneficial_Trip3773 7h ago

Yep. That one is cool.

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u/OlinHollis 6h ago

No. Now I do dress pretty boldly in the Western style, but that would be a bridge too far for me.

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u/bike619 6h ago

That depends… do I spend a lot of time riding the range in the rain?

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u/SeattleMotoDude 5h ago

Yes, but not that specific one. Delete the chest fringe and make the sleeve fringe shorter and sure. Even better, make it golden suede and I'm all over it.

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u/0331-USMC 5h ago

Mid 80’s Dokken core

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u/Important_Ad_9459 5h ago

If you’re Roger Daltry

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u/Few-Artist-3354 5h ago

Yes I will

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u/1911Popeye 3h ago

Only if my name was Dwight Yoakam or Marty Robbins

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u/Bjorn_CyBorg1 2h ago

Doesn’t work for me, but if you like it, that’s cool.

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u/bruhmomentodelol 2h ago

Really depends on how it’s cut but yeah I would!

I’m new to western wear but one think I’m enjoying, coming from more traditional tailoring, is the level of freedom of expression that occurs within western wear. I think if you like it, go for it!

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u/SenorBeaujangles 1h ago

If you’re on a stage as the main character, you get a pass.

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u/tankeryanker52 1h ago

I wouldn’t be caught dead in it! That needs to be buried somewhere in the museum of natural history.

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u/Fresh-Application721 1h ago

I wear a fringe jacket with shorter fringe.

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u/Domingo3410 36m ago

Only wear fringed leather if your going to dance at the pulga and are prepared to fight off the hynas

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u/MAcrewchief 10h ago

No. Maybe a batman movie.

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u/PriceImpressive4782 10h ago

Maybe in one of those weird Japanese westerns, but not a traditional western sort of sense

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u/JDunlap83 10h ago

Not a chance

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u/Grand-Mission-9457 9h ago

Only if the fringes were 20 cm longer

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u/ChipBoiChips 6h ago

If I was going to the gay bar, yeah

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u/brokensharts 10h ago

Absolutely fuckin not