ALL NEW SACK COAT OLD WEST PERIOD CLOTHING

Cotton Blend Short four button jacket worn for Church Need A Matching Old West Cowboy Hat?
Cotton Blend Short four button jacket worn for Church or hanging, matching pants item #524002 Sack CoatS What the Victorians knew as the sack coat first appeared in France at the end of the 1840's and quickly spread to England and America, becoming very popular in the East by the mid-1850's. Intended for extremely informal occasions, sack coats soon became working and business wear for skilled workers and clerks. By the end of the 1850's the U.S. Army had adopted a military version of the sack coat as fatigue wear. By the 1870's civilian sacks were being worn as general purpose outdoors and working jackets by many people out west. Many, many photographs of round ups and trail drives show cowboys from Texas to Montana wearing sack coats as everyday working dress.