Moses: Don't Wear This

"Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material." Leviticus 19:19
"Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together." Deuteronomy 22:11

Why did Rancher Daniel William Jones wear a white shirt while all those around him didn't? We may never know, but it brings up an interesting historical point.
+ Cowboys and ranchers back in the 1870s and 1880s usually wore linsey-woolsey shirts (linen and wool woven together). "The shirt itself would be hickory or linsey-wooley - or maybe wool in the wintertime." (Foster-Harris, The Look of the West, N.Y.:, Bonanza Books, 1955, 203). These shirts were brown or other colors.
+ Professionals (doctors, lawyers, gamblers, businessmen, etc.) usually wore white linen shirts. Jones, according to those who knew him, always wore a white shirt.
+ Jones' uncle Hiram and father Endsley were Quakers (Society of Friends). This religious upbringing may have influenced Dan to wear a white shirt. (Maybe they took the Old Testament injunction seriously).
+ But what seems more plausible to me has to do with Dan's personality. Throughout his life he seemed to be self conscious about how he appeared as a lawman and a businessman.
+ This could have dated back to when he served as a precinct leader in Wellington, Kansas in 1871. It became evident when he was accused of murder in 1885. He strongly objected to being called a "desperado" and listed a number of his prominent friends.
+ I could very well be reading too much into this when I add that he had a drinking problem from the time he was arrested for disorderly conduct while serving as Wellington city marshal in 1873 through his drunken behavior in Oklahoma in 1904. (John L. Lillibridge, The Red Fork Ranch and It's People, 1990, 105). And since he was known throughout his life as one who enjoyed lively company with a drink nearby, he perhaps tried to offset this by dressing more formally. That's a stretch, I realize, but a possibility.