Rambling Rex,
I appologize if the caption confused you ... over the lst 200 threads or so, we have wandered over many sujects; calaveras, Belduques, and Botas de Alas to name a few ... when I started this thread, I was just begining to learn just what a Californio was ... and I was naive enough to believe that I could just wear asome SASS pants, a frilly shirt and a bolo tie ... with a sombrero and a couple of Ruger Old Armys ... buy a vaquero jacket, and Bob's your uncle!
Fortunately, there were three or four guys with masters degrees in Western Civilization who set me straight ... and now , some $2K later, I have a pretty representative outfit .... in fact, the photo in my prifile is in my Californio trappings ...
The hardest thing to find is the Calaveras (i.e. Spanish pants that button up the outside seam)... But I now have a pattern, so if I can buy a couple of yards of matching cloth (to the vaquero jackets they sell) from the supplier, I can have some made for me ...