What is this Non-Mexican Holster's Name?

[RVM45]

Friends,

What is the name of a Western Holster that DOES NOT use the Mexican Loop System, but has a small buckled belt around the Holster instead?

Mexican Loop Holsters are alright, but to my OCD Mind, the slash or slashes to form a loop seem a great place for wear and cracking to begin...

Thank you.

…..RVM45

[Mattsbagger]

My Al Stohlman how to make holsters book calls it a skirt holster. It's just a strap or "belt" sewn or riveted on. On the Eldorado rig I made it uses this style. I know even the "western" style 1911 holsters use the same proccess.

[CaptQuirk]

Cheater Mexican? I don't know, to be honest, but this is the route I usually go as well. But, I do it a bit different than how Matt explains it, I just make two small slits for the strap to slip through.

[Dwight]

On John Bianchi's video, . . . that is the "western" holster he shows how to make.  Take a look at virtually all the old western movies and TV shows, . . . it IS THE style for the biggest part of them.

Not sure it really has a name, . . . 

I make them like that, . . . but they are dual layer holsters, . . . two pieces contact cemented flesh to flesh, . . . makes a really smooth and solid holster.

May God bless,

Dwight

[dikman]

I always thought of them as "Hollywood holsters", as Dwight said, and that they came about as a result of movie-making. I suppose they make a visually cleaner-looking holster, but what I've found interesting is the trend in more recent movies back to the Mexican loop style, striving for greater authenticity I guess.

[LumpenDoodle2]

Coversations with customers are usually along the lines of "one of those Clint Eastwood holsters", otherwise, no idea.     They do look good with the lining on them.    Same with the single fixed (riveted) loop holsters, or "one of those 'Duke' holsters".

Both of which come under the heading (IMHO) of Hollywood holsters, and both cope with linings way more successfully, at least for me.

[plinkercases]

From my research before into holster styles...They are most often called "Hollywood Western" (ala Arvo Ojala)  as far as I have ever found and the kind Clint wore is in fact called the "Clint Eastwood style" ...go figure

BUT before all that... in earlier forms:

Heiser catalogues call pre-evolutionary holsters like them simply "Loop" holster if the loop is continuous and sewn or riveted to the skirt or back panel OR the called them "original Buckle holster" if the loop had a buckle OR "Quick change feature" if the loop had a snap