step in chaps

[hickok55]

i hear at 19th century step in shotgun chaps were made bigger so they could fit over your boot's. does anyone know how much bigger.

[Davm]

That's not my understanding. That was one drawback of shotgun chaps- you had to take your boots off.  If you want 19th Century, fringed shotguns are the way to go, batwings came around closer to or after 1900.

[hickok55]

i find it quite hard to find information on step in shotgun chaps. i guess i'll just have to take my boots off and on.

[Dwight]

4 hours ago, hickok55 said:

i find it quite hard to find information on step in shotgun chaps. i guess i'll just have to take my boots off and on.

I made mine with full length zippers . . . ain't takin my boots of in "who knows what" ground . . . water . . . snow . . . poo . . . 

Buckle them dudes around the waist . . . hit the zippers . . . mount up and yer done.

May God bless,

Dwight

[tsunkasapa]

7 minutes ago, Dwight said:

I made mine with full length zippers . . . ain't takin my boots of in "who knows what" ground . . . water . . . snow . . . poo . . . 

Buckle them dudes around the waist . . . hit the zippers . . . mount up and yer done.

May God bless,

Dwight

There is a REALLY nasty compound found in barnyards called SHUD. 

[jrdunn]

Another problem with "step ins", If you already have some of that green gravy on your boots, it will most likely end up inside your chaps.

JM2C

[Davm]

I thought you wanted to have a period type chaps, so on the zippers, probably not historically correct.  On the fringe, always big arguments but I'd look at some period photos and copy the fringe. Cutting and sewing in the fringe will definately be the hardest part of the job.  

[hickok55]

31 minutes ago, Davm said:

I thought you wanted to have a period type chaps, so on the zippers, probably not historically correct.  On the fringe, always big arguments but I'd look at some period photos and copy the fringe. Cutting and sewing in the fringe will definately be the hardest part of the job.  

i'm not going to use zippers. this is the phone i'm using for reference.

Edited February 10, 2022 by hickok55

[Dwight]

2 hours ago, hickok55 said:

i'm not going to use zippers. this is the phone i'm using for reference.

Considering that is a staged pic . . . shined chaps . . . brand new cuffs . . . Sunday go to meeting hats on . . . with their Sunday coats . . .  I'd really like someone somewhere to give me the low down on these two.

Might just be actors from some sort of show . . . with their "show" clothes . . . that follow after Marshall Dillon's belt and holster . . . never was one like it on the range . . .

As well . . . those kind of chaps also sewn they way they are across the front would have gotten the rider killed if he slipped forward and it went around the horn of the saddle.

Then as well . . . both are wearing city boy galluses . . . and only the stage actors carried a horse beater whip like each has on his hand . . . to say nothing of the gold watch chain the dude on the left has . . . ostensibly going to his gold watch . . . that  at his age he would not have been able to afford on  a dollar a day and grub.

But who knows.

May God bless,

Dwight

[hickok55]

6 minutes ago, Dwight said:

Considering that is a staged pic . . . shined chaps . . . brand new cuffs . . . Sunday go to meeting hats on . . . with their Sunday coats . . .  I'd really like someone somewhere to give me the low down on these two.

Might just be actors from some sort of show . . . with their "show" clothes . . . that follow after Marshall Dillon's belt and holster . . . never was one like it on the range . . .

As well . . . those kind of chaps also sewn they way they are across the front would have gotten the rider killed if he slipped forward and it went around the horn of the saddle.

Then as well . . . both are wearing city boy galluses . . . and only the stage actors carried a horse beater whip like each has on his hand . . . to say nothing of the gold watch chain the dude on the left has . . . ostensibly going to his gold watch . . . that  at his age he would not have been able to afford on  a dollar a day and grub.

But who knows.

May God bless,

Dwight

thank you for that information