[Nea Wood]

Even though all Westerns take place in the 1800s, the female characters always sport hairstyles and makeup reflecting the year the movie was made. In other words, if a Western was filmed in 1968, all of the women, whether schoolmaarms or saloon girls or pioneer settlers, will have long flowing hair that is teased on top, and '60s makeup.

[Aeronaut]

Even though all Westerns take place in the 1800s, the female characters always sport hairstyles and makeup reflecting the year the movie was made. In other words, if a Western was filmed in 1968, all of the women, whether schoolmaarms or saloon girls or pioneer settlers, will have long flowing hair that is teased on top, and '60s makeup.

Also, before it was fashionable for men to wear their hair long, all the cowboys had short "white sidewalls" haircuts. Then, all of a sudden, somewhere in the mid-60s, cowboys all wore their hair long.