_:vb7085470 "2014, Jeremy Agnew, \u201CThe Image Persists\u201D, in The Creation of the Cowboy Hero: Fiction, Film and Fact, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, \u2192ISBN, page 212:"@en . _:vb7085470 "\"Dude\" was originally a name for ranch vacationers with no disrespect attached, but it later became derisively associated with clueless easterners who knew nothing of Western ways, as portrayed by Bob Hope in Son of Paleface (1952). Junior's fianc\u00E9[sic\u00A0\u2013 meaning fianc\u00E9e] (Jane Russell) tells him to \"go out West.\" When Junior (Bob Hope) wants to show that he has become a Westerner, he wears a tall outsized white hat like Tom Mix and white wooly chaps, the traditional movie outfit representing an eastern dude. A female dude was known as a \"dudess\" or \"dudine.\""@en .