The Ghillie Shirt

[Todd Bradshaw]

Having studied such stuff in my youth and later during my time shooting black powder, I don't recall ever seeing an example of an actual native American shirt that had the lace up front. Plains Indian shirts were generally pullovers with a triangular or rectangular, fringed throat patch tied on to cover the gap at the throat and add some decoration. I'd be kind of surprised if any mountain men or Indians actually wore shirts with the throat laces in the pre-Bonanza era.