Quigley Match

The really fun part of the Quigley Rifle Match - was the folks in costume. 

Everything we have involved ourselves in has it's own rules for appropriate attire.

Car shows - denim jacket with sequined 66 Chevy on the back - to match the car.

Motorcycles - leather jacket with fringe and gloves with fringe.

Cowboy stuff - suede jacket with fringe, big hat, and tall boots

Walk to Emmaus Retreat - rainbow striped jacket from Guatemala

Walking with Jesus - robe of righteousness (Isaiah 61:10)

OK.

Here's a few folks dressed up at the Quigley.

I love hats!

Wonder how this one worked in the wind

She wore it all weekend.

Calvary?

Love the Feather!

Great shade on a hot day.

This must be the saloon girl and the piano player.

She reminds me a little of Reba McEntire.

This is April, her dad was one of the creators of the match.

These darling girls, shot in the match!

She's wearing a shoulder pad under her prairie dress

to soften the gun's kick.

Shopping the vendor line.

This wasn't grandpa's first dress-up party.

This grandma shot too.

Wait, there's another piano player.

This red head wearing matching dress and hat

won the youth division.

My kind of boots - fringe - on another youth shooter!

This sharpshooter has a great ruffled shirt.

This amazing man has made all 20 matches in a wheelchair.

(He also made the North Dakota buffalo rifle -

I guess there's a little rivalry there.)

And this gal -

was properly dressed for who she is and what she does -

sells the handmade items of African women and sends the money back to them.

Her name is pronounced "ooh muh"

and she is from Cameroon.

Her sweet greeting when I walked up to her tent was,

"Hello, Love."

You know it - I bought....

So next year,

me and my Roy

will have raided our Texas closets

and will be there in all our wild west glory

But I think I'll skip the corset and the hoop skirt!