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I saw all these men in jeans, most in boots and cowboy hats, and some in leather chaps.

Attendees wore bedazzled cowboy boots and hats; chaps; fringe and leather; red, white and blue; outfits inspired by Beyoncé’s past tours and video looks; and, of course, denim on denim on denim.

And to answer Roan’s initial “chaps” question, there are some country singers, both historical and contemporary, who most definitely recognize the genre’s queer possibilities.

“The chaps there, we call them,” he said, a term I had never heard for chapines — Guatemalans.

If untended, it has below the green top what some people call “petticoats” of dead leaves, but I think they look like those furry chaps that silent movie cowboys used to wear.