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“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
Oscar Wilde, 1883
When playwright Oscar Wilde made the long journey from London to California, he brought with him a flamboyant wardrobe. In 1882, he attracted large crowds of settlers in Leadville, Colorado, who were interested in seeing Wilde’s velvet knicker suit and flowing bow tie. His outrageous costume was made complete with a high-crowned, large-brimmed cowboy hat and knee-high cowboy boots.
Although men found his fashion sense questionable, women admired the frilly, soft-collared shirts he wore, and they made patterns of the garments, so they could replicate the design for themselves.
To learn more about the fashion trendsetters in the Old West read
How the West Was Worn.
