{"id":440032,"date":"2026-09-18T14:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440032\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T14:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:34:10","slug":"big-tex-fitted-with-new-wardrobe-going-up-in-fair-park-ahead-of-the-state-fair-of-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440032\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Tex, fitted with new wardrobe, going up in Fair Park ahead of the State Fair of Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big Tex, the iconic mascot of the State Fair of Texas, is returning to his rightful place in Fair Park this Friday ahead of the fair&#8217;s opening day next week.<\/p>\n<p>The 55-foot-tall cowboy is sporting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/big-tex-new-look-cavenders-resistol-state-fair-dickies\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">new outfit<\/a> for the 2026 edition of the fair. After being dressed by Dickies for nearly three decades, Cavender&#8217;s Boot City western wear store has designed Big Tex&#8217;s shirt. The western wear brand Resistol created his the 95-gallon cowboy hat.<\/p>\n<p>Big Tex is also sporting new Lucchese boots this year, designed by 31-year-old Aaliyah McNeal, who won the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/state-fair-of-texas-big-tex-boot-design-contest-winner\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Big Tex Boot Design Contest<\/a> earlier this year. The design incorporates Texas icons like longhorns, bluebonnets and pecan trees.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/state-fair-of-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">State Fair of Texas<\/a>, themed &#8220;Stars, Stripes, and Howdies,&#8221; runs from Sept. 25 to Oct. 18.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fe7ceff5-fa6c-4de5-827c-6e754e26921d.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"fe7ceff5-fa6c-4de5-827c-6e754e26921d.jpg \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                State Fair of Texas<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Big Tex, the iconic mascot of the State Fair of Texas, is returning to his rightful place in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10503,102,368,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-440032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-big-tex","tag-dallas","tag-state-fair-of-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440032","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=440032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}