The Coon Creek Girls were pushed to wear calico and country clothes,leader Lily May Ledford implies in one of the monologues on "Gems: Lily May Ledford" (subject of another thread). That wasn't necessarily a gender thing, though. Josiah Combs, a song collector and dulcimer player who came out of southeastern Kentucky in the post WWI years, cut short his performing career because promoters wanted him to wear clodhopper shoes, funny hat, etc. Combs had earned a degree at the Sorbonne and wouldn't put up with that foolishness. He settled into a long career as a professor of foreign languages.