Pearl-snap shirts have traditionally served a utilitarian purpose. The snaps allow a rancher to easily refasten the shirt if it gets snagged on barbed wire—no need to sew on a new four-hole button.

I always figured that cowboy shirts — Western shirts — have always had snap buttons. I mean, Roy Rogers wore snap-button shirts, right? So cowboys must have been wearing them ever since there ...

A new Dallas company called Snaps Clothing is making Western shirts. They offered to send us two shirts. So Zac and I put on those shirts and talked about them in this episode of EarBurner.

Even if you aren't trying to go full cowboy, a Western shirt is a very important essential to have. Most of the time, a Western shirt is a denim button-down, with design details like a pointed ...

The best Western shirts also have fancy details like pearl snap buttons (that don’t come off as easily as regular buttons), and handy chest pockets that, while once used for cowboy essentials ...

but Mr. Weil "was there at the beginning" and was "considered the father of the snap western shirt." One of his company's designs, with its saw-toothed pocket flaps and its diamond-shaped snap ...

Weil, Rockmount’s intricate, snap-button Western shirts have shown up on the backs of Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, and every member of The Beatles.