| Show How Bow Do Western Heroes Drew Dreu If Jf you JOU were were writing a novel about the Fa Far Wet West how would you dress dress' your hero herot Heres Here's how Owen Wister Witter the c celebrated l author of ot The Virgin VirginIan Ian Ian- and other famous stories o of the West Welt dressed Lin McLean McLean- in III his bl novel of ot the same ame name pu published pub thirty five years yean tare 1 ago 0 Passing each bu busy prospector Lin LID would read on every broad u up upturned upturned turned pair of overalls the same came label Levi Leyl Strauss Straus No 2 with a a 8 ai i picture of two lusty horses horle hitched bitched to one ne' ne of ot these the garments and vainly vain ly struggling to split spilt them asunder Lin Un remembered be he was wal wearing a label just curt like ike that too And Harry Harrr Leon Wilson in III Ruggles Rug Rugg plea Jle of Red Gap nap wrote 1 It There was wa a cartoon emblazoned em ens blazoned on this placard of his overalls depicting the futile ef et- forts of two teams team ot of f stout horse hone each attached to a a leg of the garment gar ment meat to wrench it in twain More lore recent authors author such as p Norman Nor Nor- Norman man man s. s Hale H Have continued 4 this this' tradition In la his bl Balloon Boster ol ot Arizona we read i Withdrawing his hi hand band fr from m the th I knob door be he slowly sank pink It Into the pocket of 01 bl his LeYl Leai and aDd as ai slowly withdrew It t seemingly reluctant reI re re- I to rue gate upon what be he knew I It would contain co cent I A lone lose twenty twenty five piece And Grace Robinson describing In Liberty Magazine her adventures e. e with the Gasoline Gypsies refers reter Levis Levi the It stand to frequently as a. standard nd- nd ar arc ard d dress in fn the Southwest and finally fin ally announces Today I bought myself a pair of Levis Levi's and a a broad brimmed Mexican can bat hat batAnd I And to cap it ft all Will Rogers In bis his widely published dally daily syndicated syndi I rated article said laid in to commenting upon the defeat of the New York YorkI I U University football team by the Oregon I I It was waa no place for a raccoon coat athlete up against an au old bunch of wheat shockers whose whole collee col- col lee emblem to 11 4 a pair Daly of Levi overalls over over- alls an I I Why this WI literary custom You'll find rInd the answer in the following by br Punk N. N Roller writing in the Verde Copper News I I I. I e When I was war a boy no gentleman thought of 01 wearing anything but overalls with copper rivets at at atall all r the tearing points point Just under the rear rear right hand suspender button was waa an inset Inlet panel of buckskin bearing a picture of ot two heavy draft horses belabored by earnest and probably profane skinners mule tugging in fa vain to sunder a pair of overalls Could Ihl they do cIo It In No Nol A thousand times no And ashy b hy Because Because Be De- cause those overalls were vere copper copper- riveted Levi Strauss overalls are a distinctive dis ds- Western garment and still sUll lire are made mad in a the tame same way the they w were wre re fashioned sixty years ago And iy as AI then theD they are still lUll the per dress drell for a Western hero Sunny Bunny Jim Says flays The Chamber or at Commerce is an ID excellent bunch bench e ef follows the follows the Rotary too too and and MM bunch of Lions LIonI I Is Ls as u good as u to the theno tato no no flies Illes on the Elks either But Bat it comes comet to doing dolne things It takes tabs 4 v bunch whose whom you JOU are pleased to eaR cd the Scum of the Town Town the the theand ar and Labor LaSor League BlUe The They dont don't luncheons but they sure sura work wort tar for 1 J Peoples interests |
