{"id":383797,"date":"2026-07-23T12:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383797\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T12:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:47:10","slug":"big-tex-to-receive-a-2026-wardrobe-change-heres-what-hell-wear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383797\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Tex to receive a 2026 wardrobe change. Here’s what he’ll wear"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a decades-long run with Dickies, the State Fair announced in a news release Wednesday that\u00a0Cavender\u2019s Boot City will design Big Tex\u2019s Western shirt and Resistol will don him with a new 95-gallon cowboy hat. The change was sparked by Dickies headquarters moving<\/a> from Fort Worth to California last year.<\/p>\n

Resistol was founded in Dallas in 1927 and\u00a0is headquartered in Garland, and Cavender\u2019s is based in Tyler.<\/p>\n

\u201cPartnering with\u00a0Cavender\u2019s and Resistol brings together two Texas brands that authentically represent the Western heritage, craftsmanship, and pride that Big Tex has embodied for generations,\u201d said Jennifer Schuder, the State Fair\u2019s senior vice president for customer service. \u201cWe\u2019re excited for fairgoers to see Big Tex sporting a new look that celebrates the very best of Texas.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Along with his new clothes, Big Tex will don boots designed by 31-year-old Aaliyah McNeal, who was announced as the 2026 design contest winner<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n

McNeal, who lives in Georgia and grew up visiting the State Fair with family members who live near Fair Park, beat out nearly 450 other entrants who submitted designs for the size-96 boots.<\/p>\n

Big Tex made his debut at the State Fair of Texas<\/a> in 1952 and has been a key landmark ever since.<\/p>\n

Catch a glimpse of his new look at the fair, themed\u00a0\u201cStars, Stripes, and Howdies,\u201d running Sept. 25 through Oct. 18.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a decades-long run with Dickies, the State Fair announced in a news release Wednesday that\u00a0Cavender\u2019s Boot City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28,88032,89512,87998,89138,95188,92279],"class_list":["post-383797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tp-dallas-fortworth","tag-tp-texas","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-dallas-county","tag-tp-fair-park","tag-tp-parks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}