black leather

     For those of you in Russia or Australia…once a year in Texas we have the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo which is held for a few weeks every year at the beginning of March.

     There is always great musical acts, food, a carnival, petting zoo and late night country western dancing and various shops. It’s basically a huge celebration of our Texas heritage!

     It’s always a blast, and people watching is part of the fun especially since there’s no shortage of executive types from the cube farm dressed in their cowboy attire mixed in with the real deal.

     Most people seem to try to go at least one night per year, but I know of many people who go every single night.

My husband had not been to the Rodeo in years and we had never once gone together until he decided to get last minute tickets for the Toby Keith concert.

We checked out the animals and ate way too much before settling in at the concert.

I wasn’t necessarily planning on wearing a hat, but the wind was absolutely insane and hats are fabulous for days when you want low maintenance hair!

    I have quite a few western hats which are mainly used to hide vacation hair!

     The small silver bag has some fun bling and as hard as I tried to force myself into wearing small, reserved earrings…it didn’t happen. The silver dangling door knockers with rhinestones just went better.

     When reaching for a necklace, I actually chose three and wore them all for some drama!

     As for the wonderful black leather jacket? It was purchased with a pair of black leather slacks with the waist embellished with bling but the entire outfit would have been way too perfect, matchy-matchy and cartoon-like, so I opted to dress the jacket down with some loose and comfy jeans.

     My personal Facebook page right now is speckled with photo uploads from friends in their western attire proudly attending Rodeo events, it’s just our culture.

      This was our brief Rodeo excursion and we are hoping to squeeze in one more before it ends!

-March 2, 2013

-SDS