I’ve often thought of jeans as “sky pants,” trousers woven from cotton clouds. Jeans are the wild blue yonder above the canyons, plains and crumbling escarpments of the West. Pants to die in, as Andy ...

“Western style is defined by hard work,” she says. Recreating it hinges on nailing down the smaller things: true cowboys, for example, wear jeans way longer than the average American man or woman.

Here's their advice on mastering the aesthetic. The combination of jeans and cowboy boots is often categorized as casual, but there are ways to give your cowgirl getup an elevated twist.

Some Western brands have removed it from their supply ... But that's of limited help to you as a consumer if you're just ordering a pair of jeans off a retailer's website. "If you really want ...

The jeans were among 270 Gold Rush-era memorabilia that sold for nearly $1m total, according to Holabird Western Americana Collections. The auction took place in Reno, Nevada in the western US ...