If you thought fringe peaked in 1978, you weren't at Cheyenne last weekend. The frontier's oldest rodeo just became its most stylish, and the receipts are all over Instagram.
The runway — such as it was — ran from the VIP bleachers to the beer garden and back. Fringe was the through-line: on sleeves, on hems, on hat brims, on saddle pads. Some of it moved with the wearer. Some of it moved on its own.
The unofficial best dressed: a barrel racer from Stephenville in a hand-tooled oxblood corset over a slip dress, boots by a bootmaker with a two-year waitlist, and fringe cuffs that hit the floor. She refused to name the maker. "He'd kill me," she said. We asked twice.
The trend everyone's stealing from her: mixing turquoise with black leather. "Turquoise used to be for grandmothers," one Nashville stylist told us. "Now it's the whole look. Silver is dead. Long live silver."
Also spotted: three separate country radio wives in matching Miron Crosby boots (they had not coordinated), a rising bull rider in a bolo tie made from a real elk tooth, and one very unwelcome influencer in a rented Stagecoach costume.
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