Prairie dress

[2] In keeping with their design inspiration, traditional prairie skirts are usually made of "country" fabrics such as denim and flowered calico, though they can be of a solid colour too.

[5] Prairie dresses earned their name for people travelling to the Western parts of the United States, though they were once "worn by women of all classes all over the country.

The style originated as an adaptation of high fashion to the practicalities of rural life in the Western United States.

The style grew in popularity in the 1970s with the approach of the United States Bicentennial and was introduced to high fashion by Ralph Lauren in his fall 1978 Western-themed collection.

[10] Prairie dresses are often worn by women who attend Christian churches that emphasize the practice of plain dress (as with the Bruderhof Communities, an Anabaptist denomination) or the doctrine of outward holiness (as with the Evangelical Wesleyan Church, a Methodist connexion in the holiness movement).