Contemporary Dusters

Western horsemen's dusters gained renewed popularity in the late twentieth century, primarily through the J. Peterman catalog, and are now a standard item of western wear. They figured little in Western films until Sergio Leone re-introduced them in his The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West. The latter played for many months in Paris and was in part credited with a revival of the duster in men's fashions.

In contemporary women's clothing, a duster is any knee-length or longer unfitted coat, sometimes sleeveless, often sold with matching pants or skirt.