Weekly English Text: Types of Chaps
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recta y estrechastraight and narrow
Types of Chaps
Shotgun chaps, sometimes called "stovepipes", were so named because the legs are straight and narrow. They were the earliest design used by Texas cowboys, and in wide use by the late 1870s. Each leg is cut from a single piece of leather. Their fit is snug, wrapping completely around the leg. They have full-length zippers running along the outside of the leg from the thigh to just above the ankle. The edge of each legging is usually fringed and the bottom is sometimes cut with an arch or flare that allows a smooth fit over the arch of a boot. Shotguns do not flap around the way the batwing design can, and they are also better at trapping body heat, an advantage in windy, snowy or cold conditions, though unpleasant in very hot or humid weather. Shotgun chaps are more common on ranches in the northwest, Rocky Mountains and northern plains states, as well as Canada, and are the design most commonly seen in horse show competition for western riders. English riders who wear full-length chaps also usually wear a shotgun style, sometimes without fringe.
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Chaparerras del desierto
Desert style chaps
Leather chaps
Las pantalones de cuero que utilizan los vaqueros y se llevan puesto por encima de tus jeans para protegerlos cuando se monte un caballo
ajustado(a) - tight-fitting
chaps - zahones/masculine plural
chaps - chaparreras/fem. plural
Shotgun chaps
Escopeta zahones ??
In Argentina the gauchos use these words "Caricantinas " "caracantín" or "guardacalzón" for chaps.
It is more of an apron slit in the center ,tied to the waist and legs.
Es medio pantalon de cuero usado sobre las bombachas, que cubre la parte frontal de las piernas.
Usado en ciertas zonas del norte argentino.
