Once Again, Beyoncé Makes a Powerful Statement in Chaps

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has donned to promote —and like jeans from Louis Vuitton's 2024 collection, these Western-style pants seem to be inspired by Black cowboys.On April 3, on X.com shared a new promotional photo of Beyoncé next to a series of photos of dressed in , otherwise known as “,” which were originally designed for warmth, according to 's exhibition titled Black Cowboys: An American Story.The fan also shared a less practical purpose for the style via the Bullock Texas State History Museum. “When cowboys began competing at rodeo roundups in the late 1800s, they wore the narrow-legged ‘shotgun’ style chaps they already wore on the range," the fan the . "As rodeo became more of a show in the early 1900s, competitors began wearing flamboyant ‘woolie’ chaps made from angora goat hair.”Beyoncé paired her own woolies with an American flag bodysuit and a white cowboy hat.

You can see the images .Aside from the latex chaps Beyoncé wore on the cover of Cowboy Carter, the 42-year-old recently modeled a pair of denim chaps from ' 2024 menswear collection for Louis Vuitton. “I feel like when you see cowboys portrayed, you see only a few versions,” Williams of the collection in January. “You never really get to see what some of the original cowboys really look like.

They look like us, they look like me, they look Black, they look Native American.” According to the , historians believe that one in four cowboys were Black.Meanwhile, Cowboy Carter was born out of Beyoncé's own experience feeling excluded from the country music industry. “Because of that experience, I did a deeper dive into the history of Country music and studied our rich musical archive,” she on Instagram March.