Frontier towns mixed wildly disparate dress and social types in one street.

Evidence

Page 140 hunters and trappers in buckskin clothing; men of the Plains with belts and revolvers, in great blue cloaks, relics of the war; teamsters in leathern suits; horsemen in fur coats and caps and buffalo-hide boots with the hair outside, and camping blankets behind their huge Mexican saddles; Broadway dandies in light kid gloves; rich English sporting tourists, clean, comely, and supercilious looking; and hundreds of Indians on their small ponies, the men wearing buckskin suits sewn with beads, and red blankets, with faces painted vermilion and hair hanging lank and straight, and squaws much bundled up, riding astride with furs over their saddles. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 159

Categorization

• FICTION: A single street scene where every costume class coexists makes a ready-made establishing shot for a Western narrative.
• XREF: Echoes the dress-as-status-legibility material in World of Strangers, where preindustrial cities law-coded rank through fabric and cut. — connects to: Preindustrial city residents encountered social diversity at their own doorstep — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 229; Preindustrial cities were overtly and visibly socially heterogeneous — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 230; Overt dress difference made anonymity unachievable in the preindustrial city — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 259 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• High fashion and streetwear fused into one flattened luxury monoculture. #contradicts (0.90) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 762
• Preindustrial city residents encountered social diversity at their own doorstep #corroborates (0.85) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 229
• Preindustrial cities were overtly and visibly socially heterogeneous #corroborates (0.85) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 230
• Overt dress difference made anonymity unachievable in the preindustrial city #corroborates (0.85) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 259
• Preindustrial cities made social differences visually overt and legible #corroborates (0.85) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 235
• Jumbled urban space forced preindustrial dwellers to confront social diversity daily #corroborates (0.85)