Vintage Roughrider Western Shirt Yellow Gingham Circle T Cowgirl 90s

A buttercream yellow gingham western shirt from the 1990s, Roughrider by Circle T, long sleeve with metal buttons, cut from a rayon acetate blend and made in the USA. Soft, drapey, and sunny as a July afternoon — this is cowgirl wear that knew how to dress up.

Circle T built Roughrider into one of the workhorse names of American western apparel, the kind of label you found on the racks of feed-store boutiques and small-town western shops across the country. The brand traded in the full vocabulary of the genre — Aztec geometrics, Southwestern color, smile pockets, snap fronts — but the gingham pieces are a quieter pleasure. A checked picnic pattern in a soft yellow reads more sweetheart-at-the-county-fair than rodeo-arena, and that’s exactly the charm.

The rayon acetate blend is pure period detail. It’s the fabric that gave 90s western and rodeo wear that liquid, slightly lustrous hand — drape over stiffness, movement over structure. Pair that with domestic construction and metal buttons, and you’ve got a garment from the last era when a mid-market western brand still ran its sewing stateside.

Yellow gingham, made in America, with a Roughrider tag that tells you exactly when and where it came from.