“Rancher” Jacket Research. Cody Rancher, Bay River, Hodkins and other.

[Will Zach]

Quick google session, and I found real photos of this one View attachment 587517
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the “Clifton’s Inc” company is indicated on the tag.

You are getting cool stuff out of Google; all I am getting is @ton312 ....

 

[Leigh H]

New jacket find in the UK surprisingly, NRY Brand West Wear? 'The Roust About' . Very similar to 'The Cody Rancher', maybe The Cody was made by NRY Brand? and we've seen that back design before in this thread from Bay River. Feels like they were all made by Bay River ?

 

[Leigh H]

Picked up an old western wear catalog from 1968 and discovered the Cody Rancher inside, they had a fleece lined version too.


‘At Last! A real rancher's jacket that has rugged western styling. Goes well with all types dress. Made of soft sueded cowhide splits. No.


FL702M is lined with sherpa.
Looks like real sheepskin.


No. FL700 is unlined, has brown
goatskin collar. Color: Buckskin.-Heavy Duty snap Fasteners.’

 

[Yevhen]

Update
Steve McQeen in TV show “WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE” 1958-61
Cody Rancher probably
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Also, here other Rancher style jacket(if I not mistake), with different collar design, lined

 

[Yevhen]

Johnny Cash in Cody Rancher style jacket, button version
But this colour is characteristic to Bay River

 

[Yevhen]

New info about Bay River
Found on eBay another suede vest, it had a care tag with RN number.
RN 37354
So, all what I found in RN Database

Not huge, but little more, than we had before.
And, I found date calculator for RN number, they said, Bay River was registered in 1968
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Upd.

 

[Yevhen]

Unknown manufacturer, Cody Rancher style on EBay

 

[Yevhen]

Find new model.
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Now listed in Grailed
Looks like Cody’s variant of this Bay River jacket
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Now found new manufacturer who made this model, in Toronto, Canada
In Instagram

Thrifty? Sport Shop

 

[Yevhen]

Jo o Kay’s version of this model
On EBay

 

[Yevhen]

Wow, Cody Rancher vest
Until now i thought that Cody Rancher was only jackets, in one model
Grailed

 

[Yevhen]

Just spotted new variation of this design family.
“The Drifter” series 1965-66
Marti Robbins wear this jacket
Black shawl collar as cody
Buckle close pockets
Black leather on sleeve hems and buckles on sleeves too
Snap belts on sides
Back details looks similar to this Model

 

[Marc mndt]

Tregos Westwear

 

[Yevhen]

Tregos Westwear

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Wow
Another similar model from them

 

[PatrickDithmarsch]

Hi everyone!
I am brandnew on here and this is my fist post
I am collecting suede jackets and shirts from the Corral Sportwear spectrum myself and will post pics of them soon. Here a little additional info about the company >


From "The Daily Ardmoreite“, Ardmore, Okla. Thursday, January 25, 1973:

Corral Sportswear of Ardmore was there to fill the void. The Ardmore-based firm turns out about 60 different clothing styles including vests, jackets and pants. All are made of leather and they range in price from about $50 to $250.

Corral and its subsidiary, Western Leather, sells to retail outlets from New York to California as well as many foreign countries. Parent company for both firms is Tandy Corp., Ft. Worth.

In 20 years, Corral Sportswear has grown from a two-man operation in a 25x30 building on Caddo to a firm that is known the world over. Selling under the trademark, JO-o-Kay, the company now has more than 15,000 feet of floor space in a modern building on Moore St. SW.
The firm was started on Feb.1 1953 by Mr. and Mrs. John H. Simpler and is still run by the Simpler‘s sons, John and Ron.

JO-o-Kay is the number one leather outerwear manufacturer in the United States, and is thought to be the only firm in the country that deals exclusively in leather.

Most of the products are made from lampskin suede or split cowhide, but capeskin, cabretta (leather from a New Zealand long-haired sheep), and top-grain leather is also used either alone or in combination with suede or "rough out“ leather.

Fringe, the almost-trademark of the hippie culture, is popular with everybody everywhere, Corral officials say, and it accents many of their designs.
Although, Corral manufactures basically western wear, they are gradually branching out into other types of clothing - still in leather.
Purses and billfolds made at the Western Leather plant on Lake Murray Drive South are almost exclusively western-look.

The company has migrated from exclusively hand-tooled crafts to purses that are partly embossed and partly tooled, then hand-laced. Billfolds are all hand-tooled, hand-dyed and hand-laced.

A new style purse called „Latigo“ was introduced to the line in August of last year and has proved to be a red-hot item.

The smooth leather bags have a minimum of tooling - usually just a simple flower with a pair of leaves - and are hand-dyed in an antiquing process that gives them an individualistic look.

Although the company sells from one end of the country to the other, Douglas Smith, a Western Leather executive, says tastes very from one area to another. For example, Easterners tend to go for closed handbags, Smith said, while Californians prefer open-type.

It takes about 6 hours to make a purse and prices range from$3.60 for a small coin purse to $25 for a large handbag.
Western Leather makes about 40 different styles. Their products can be seen in retail stores all over the country, including four in Ardmore.

 

[PatrickDithmarsch]

60s Jo-o-Kay:

60s Bay River coat

Unidentified Korean brand