Welcome to Western Wednesday where we are going to talk all things western! They may be fashion related, lifestyle, or they may just tell a story! All though you are probably thinking “Sierra aren’t you a “western” blogger? So your whole blog is “western”?” YES! But western Wednesday is going to go a little deeper than well this is western just because I say so! This is going to explore the western heritage element of whatever we may be discussing on the blog from hats, to companies, even people! I could not think of a BETTER person to feature, than Darcy Good owner of Hazels Fashion Wagon, a boutique DEEPLY rooted in Western Heritage and it starts in with their name!

I know Darcy from Rodeo, OF COURSE! I know everyone from Rodeo! My Mom remembers Darcy as a curly haired little blonde dressed up wherever they ran into her! I started to get to know Darcy after we started steer roping again, come to find out I had been around her since I was a baby. Darcy comes from Calf Ropers….and well I can relate to that 😉 She also married into a family that I’ve known my whole life! Small world? Non smaller than the rodeo world. I do not remember Darcy as a little girl like Mom does, I know know her as a #girlboss boutique owner that even I have looked up to in my young “western fashion career.” I think that distinct style is important in a small world like ours, to me Darcy has a very distinct style that translates over to her boutique and what she carries. We also share a deep love of styling, that we often snapchat each other about! Enough about what I have to say I am going to pass the reins over to Darcy, and let her tell you the story………..

Western fashion and the rodeo way of life runs deep.

Married to third generation New Mexico PRCA steer roper, Billy Good, Darcy and Billy call Wynnewood, Oklahoma home.  The couple met while both were attending Eastern New Mexico University on rodeo scholarships, and they tied the knot in 2015.  Their training facility Good Performance Horses turns out roping and barrel racing horses, as well as, hosting up-and-coming students at their facility helping youth in various rodeo events and horsemanship.

Darcy has rodeoed and showed in the AQHA in roping and barrel racing her entire life under the watchful eye of her parents, Doug, a top-notch roper and horse trainer, and mom, Linda, a WPRA & PRCA gold card member.  

Her great, great grandfather on her dad’s side, Monroe Veach, started Veach Saddlery in Trenton, Missouri in 1919.  The accomplished saddle maker’s descendants are celebrating 2019 as the 100^th anniversary of the leather business still open and family owned. Someone Darcy greatly admires is her great grandmother, Imogene Veach Beals, one of Monroe’s daughters.  Imogene was a saddle maker and professional seamstress who designed and sewed custom western attire.  Imogene, known as one of the most fashionable style mavens of her era, had her men’s shirt pattern used as the template by western clothing manufacturer, H Bar C. 

On Darcy’s mom’s side of the family, rodeo involvement started with her great grandparents who were noted wild west show performers.  Great grandmother Hazel Hickey Moore, was an accomplished equestrienne, who rode jumping horses and dressage as a youngster with her parents who worked in the circus world. She became a trick roper and trick rider on the wild west show side of entertainment after marrying her cowboy husband, Percy Moore.

Darcy has always been interested in fashion and western style and started her own retail storefront, website, and social media presence, Hazel’s Fashion Wagon, paying homage to Hazel. In addition to Hazel’s horsemanship skill, she was also a accomplished seamstress who made circus costumes from the time she was a young girl.  Then designing and sewing western styles for herself, as well as many of the other men and women performers on the wild west show circuits.  She made her own beadwork accessories, and was a master tailor crafting lame’ shirts and pants for many of the barrel racers, contract acts, and rodeo personnel in the 1950’s and 60’s. 

While fall is Darcy’s favorite time of year for putting together dressing and accessorizing for events like the NFR, and the many other fall rodeo and western happenings, this year marks some major ‘dress-up’ opportunities for Darcy and her family. Her grandmother, Lydia Moore, and dad, Doug Clark are both being honored at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum’s annual Rodeo Historical Society’s Rodeo Hall of Fame gala in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma November 8 and 9.  The annual event inducts notable people in rodeo who have devoted their lives and careers to the sport.  Lydia grew up as a dressage performer and trick roper.  After seeing the relatively new event in rodeo of ladie’s barrel racing in the 1950’s, she gravitated towards rodeo.  She was a past WPRA (Women’s Professional Rodeo Association) national director, then was the WPRA executive secretary for nearly 25 years.  

So, for all of your western-flaired fashions and help with putting together outfits for the important upcoming events go to hazels-fashion-wagon.com.

– written by Darcy herself a girl of MANY talents

Happy Trails until we meet again 😉

Sierra Rae & Darcy Good