What are you tryin' to do smalltime, start a fight? :wink:
I have and wear at different times of the year, chinks and leggin's and woolies.
When it's wet and warm, I prefer chinks.
When it's wet and cold, I prefer woolies.
When it's just cool, I prefer leggin's.
When it's hot or in the branding corral I prefer chinks.
Chinks are probably the best all around, when you can only afford or only want one pair.
I have a pair of chinks now that are good for all around. They are made from a scottish highlander. The long hair on them keeps the hot off in the summer, wet off in spring and fall and makes them warmer in the winter.
Traditionally, bucaroo's wore chinks and cowboys wore leggin's or batwings. But in our "smaller" world now, things have gotten mixed up a lot more.
There are lots more slick fork saddles in this country than their used to be. Lots more mule hide on horns and less rubber. Lots of cowboys wearing chinks. For all of the reasons mentioned in the previous post.
I have a neighbor who hates flat brimmed hats and says we should all wear what we wore as kids and not change our styles. I just got a new book of all of LA Huffmans pictures from 1880 to 1920's and most of them fellers wore flat brim hats with about half or better having some shape to the crown of the hat. Charlie Russel got to Montana the same time as Huffman and used many of Huffmans pictures as reference material, They were good friends. Look at the hats that Charlie painted. Everyone know that ol' Charlie didn't lie!
The pictures I see of when we was kids, we all wore low crowned hats with the brims looking like syrup pitchers! So evidentley, somewhere along the way, we have changed styles! Don't see many like that now, unless on a dude.
Some wear flat brimmed hats as rememberance of them good ol' hands who came before and to pay them tribute and honor them.
I notice that people who are insecure, are quick to find fault with anything different than what they do or wear or use. :wink: