Terms & Conditions

TERMS OF SERVICE

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OVERVIEW

This website is operated by Gaucho - Buenos Aires. Throughout the site, the terms “we”, “us” and “our” refer to Gaucho - Buenos Aires. Gaucho - Buenos Aires offers this website, including all information, tools and services available from this site to you, the user, conditioned upon your acceptance of all terms, conditions, policies and notices stated here.

By visiting our site and/ or purchasing something from us, you engage in our “Service” and agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions (“Terms of Service”, “Terms”), including those additional terms and conditions and policies referenced herein and/or available by hyperlink. These Terms of Service apply  to all users of the site, including without limitation users who are browsers, vendors, customers, merchants, and/ or contributors of content.

Please read these Terms of Service carefully before accessing or using our website. By accessing or using any part of the site, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you may not access the website or use any services. If these Terms of Service are considered an offer, acceptance is expressly limited to these Terms of Service.

Any new features or tools which are added to the current store shall also be subject to the Terms of Service. You can review the most current version of the Terms of Service at any time on this page. We reserve the right to update, change or replace any part of these Terms of Service by posting updates and/or changes to our website. It is your responsibility to check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to the website following the posting of any changes constitutes acceptance of those changes.

SECTION 1 - ONLINE STORE TERMS

By agreeing to these Terms of Service, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this site.

You may not use our products for any illegal or unauthorized purpose nor may you, in the use of the Service, violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright laws).

You must not transmit any worms or viruses or any code of a destructive nature.

A breach or violation of any of the Terms will result in an immediate termination of your Services.

SECTION 2 - GENERAL CONDITIONS

We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time.

You understand that your content (not including credit card information), may be transferred unencrypted and involve (a) transmissions over various networks; and (b) changes to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices. Credit card information is always encrypted during transfer over networks.

You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service or any contact on the website through which the service is provided, without express written permission by us.

The headings used in this agreement are included for convenience only and will not limit or otherwise affect these Terms.

SECTION 3 - ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS AND TIMELINESS OF INFORMATION

We are not responsible if information made available on this site is not accurate, complete or current. The material on this site is provided for general information only and should not be relied upon or used as the sole basis for making decisions without consulting primary, more accurate, more complete or more timely sources of information. Any reliance on the material on this site is at your own risk.

This site may contain certain historical information. Historical information, necessarily, is not current and is provided for your reference only. We reserve the right to modify the contents of this site at any time, but we have no obligation to update any information on our site. You agree that it is your responsibility to monitor changes to our site.

SECTION 4 - MODIFICATIONS TO THE SERVICE AND PRICES

Prices for our products are subject to change without notice.

We reserve the right at any time to modify or discontinue the Service (or any part or content thereof) without notice at any time.

We shall not be liable to you or to any third-party for any modification, price change, suspension or discontinuance of the Service.

SECTION 5 - PRODUCTS OR SERVICES

Certain products or services may be available exclusively online through the website. These products or services may have limited quantities and are subject to return or exchange only according to our Return Policy.

We have made every effort to display as accurately as possible the colors and images of our products that appear at the store. We cannot guarantee that your computer monitor's display of any color will be accurate.

We reserve the right, but are not obligated, to limit the sales of our products or Services to any person, geographic region or jurisdiction. We may exercise this right on a case-by-case basis. We reserve the right to limit the quantities of any products or services that we offer. All descriptions of products or product pricing are subject to change at anytime without notice, at the sole discretion of us. We reserve the right to discontinue any product at any time. Any offer for any product or service made on this site is void where prohibited.

We do not warrant that the quality of any products, services, information, or other material purchased or obtained by you will meet your expectations, or that any errors in the Service will be corrected.

SECTION 6 - ACCURACY OF BILLING AND ACCOUNT INFORMATION

We reserve the right to refuse any order you place with us. We may, in our sole discretion, limit or cancel quantities purchased per person, per household or per order. These restrictions may include orders placed by or under the same customer account, the same credit card, and/or orders that use the same billing and/or shipping address. In the event that we make a change to or cancel an order, we may attempt to notify you by contacting the e-mail and/or billing address/phone number provided at the time the order was made. We reserve the right to limit or prohibit orders that, in our sole judgment, appear to be placed by dealers, resellers or distributors.

You agree to provide current, complete and accurate purchase and account information for all purchases made at our store. You agree to promptly update your account and other information, including your email address and credit card numbers and expiration dates, so that we can complete your transactions and contact you as needed.

For more detail, please review our Returns Policy.

SECTION 7 - OPTIONAL TOOLS

We may provide you with access to third-party tools over which we neither monitor nor have any control nor input.

You acknowledge and agree that we provide access to such tools ”as is” and “as available” without any warranties, representations or conditions of any kind and without any endorsement. We shall have no liability whatsoever arising from or relating to your use of optional third-party tools.

Any use by you of optional tools offered through the site is entirely at your own risk and discretion and you should ensure that you are familiar with and approve of the terms on which tools are provided by the relevant third-party provider(s).

We may also, in the future, offer new services and/or features through the website (including, the release of new tools and resources). Such new features and/or services shall also be subject to these Terms of Service.

SECTION 8 - THIRD-PARTY LINKS

Certain content, products and services available via our Service may include materials from third-parties.

Third-party links on this site may direct you to third-party websites that are not affiliated with us. We are not responsible for examining or evaluating the content or accuracy and we do not warrant and will not have any liability or responsibility for any third-party materials or websites, or for any other materials, products, or services of third-parties.

We are not liable for any harm or damages related to the purchase or use of goods, services, resources, content, or any other transactions made in connection with any third-party websites. Please review carefully the third-party's policies and practices and make sure you understand them before you engage in any transaction. Complaints, claims, concerns, or questions regarding third-party products should be directed to the third-party.

SECTION 9 - USER COMMENTS, FEEDBACK AND OTHER SUBMISSIONS

If, at our request, you send certain specific submissions (for example contest entries) or without a request from us you send creative ideas, suggestions, proposals, plans, or other materials, whether online, by email, by postal mail, or otherwise (collectively, 'comments'), you agree that we may, at any time, without restriction, edit, copy, publish, distribute, translate and otherwise use in any medium any comments that you forward to us. We are and shall be under no obligation (1) to maintain any comments in confidence; (2) to pay compensation for any comments; or (3) to respond to any comments.

We may, but have no obligation to, monitor, edit or remove content that we determine in our sole discretion are unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene or otherwise objectionable or violates any party’s intellectual property or these Terms of Service.

You agree that your comments will not violate any right of any third-party, including copyright, trademark, privacy, personality or other personal or proprietary right. You further agree that your comments will not contain libelous or otherwise unlawful, abusive or obscene material, or contain any computer virus or other malware that could in any way affect the operation of the Service or any related website. You may not use a false e-mail address, pretend to be someone other than yourself, or otherwise mislead us or third-parties as to the origin of any comments. You are solely responsible for any comments you make and their accuracy. We take no responsibility and assume no liability for any comments posted by you or any third-party.

SECTION 10 - PERSONAL INFORMATION

Your submission of personal information through the store is governed by our Privacy Policy. To view our Privacy Policy click here.

SECTION 11 - ERRORS, INACCURACIES AND OMISSIONS

Occasionally there may be information on our site or in the Service that contains typographical errors, inaccuracies or omissions that may relate to product descriptions, pricing, promotions, offers, product shipping charges, transit times and availability. We reserve the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies or omissions, and to change or update information or cancel orders if any information in the Service or on any related website is inaccurate at any time without prior notice (including after you have submitted your order).

We undertake no obligation to update, amend or clarify information in the Service or on any related website, including without limitation, pricing information, except as required by law. No specified update or refresh date applied in the Service or on any related website, should be taken to indicate that all information in the Service or on any related website has been modified or updated.

SECTION 12 - PROHIBITED USES

In addition to other prohibitions as set forth in the Terms of Service, you are prohibited from using the site or its content: (a) for any unlawful purpose; (b) to solicit others to perform or participate in any unlawful acts; (c) to violate any international, federal, provincial or state regulations, rules, laws, or local ordinances; (d) to infringe upon or violate our intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of others; (e) to harass, abuse, insult, harm, defame, slander, disparage, intimidate, or discriminate based on gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, race, age, national origin, or disability; (f) to submit false or misleading information; (g) to upload or transmit viruses or any other type of malicious code that will or may be used in any way that will affect the functionality or operation of the Service or of any related website, other websites, or the Internet; (h) to collect or track the personal information of others; (i) to spam, phish, pharm, pretext, spider, crawl, or scrape; (j) for any obscene or immoral purpose; or (k) to interfere with or circumvent the security features of the Service or any related website, other websites, or the Internet. We reserve the right to terminate your use of the Service or any related website for violating any of the prohibited uses.

SECTION 13 - DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES; LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

We do not guarantee, represent or warrant that your use of our service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free.

We do not warrant that the results that may be obtained from the use of the service will be accurate or reliable.

You agree that from time to time we may remove the service for indefinite periods of time or cancel the service at any time, without notice to you.

You expressly agree that your use of, or inability to use, the service is at your sole risk. The service and all products and services delivered to you through the service are (except as expressly stated by us) provided 'as is' and 'as available' for your use, without any representation, warranties or conditions of any kind, either express or implied, including all implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, merchantable quality, fitness for a particular purpose, durability, title, and non-infringement.

In no case shall Gaucho - Buenos Aires, our directors, officers, employees, affiliates, agents, contractors, interns, suppliers, service providers or licensors be liable for any injury, loss, claim, or any direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, special, or consequential damages of any kind, including, without limitation lost profits, lost revenue, lost savings, loss of data, replacement costs, or any similar damages, whether based in contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability or otherwise, arising from your use of any of the service or any products procured using the service, or for any other claim related in any way to your use of the service or any product, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in any content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of the service or any content (or product) posted, transmitted, or otherwise made available via the service, even if advised of their possibility. Because some states or jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or the limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, in such states or jurisdictions, our liability shall be limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.

SECTION 14 - INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Gaucho - Buenos Aires and our parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, officers, directors, agents, contractors, licensors, service providers, subcontractors, suppliers, interns and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, made by any third-party due to or arising out of your breach of these Terms of Service or the documents they incorporate by reference, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third-party.

SECTION 15 - SEVERABILITY

In the event that any provision of these Terms of Service is determined to be unlawful, void or unenforceable, such provision shall nonetheless be enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, and the unenforceable portion shall be deemed to be severed from these Terms of Service, such determination shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any other remaining provisions.

SECTION 16 - TERMINATION

The obligations and liabilities of the parties incurred prior to the termination date shall survive the termination of this agreement for all purposes.

These Terms of Service are effective unless and until terminated by either you or us. You may terminate these Terms of Service at any time by notifying us that you no longer wish to use our Services, or when you cease using our site.

If in our sole judgment you fail, or we suspect that you have failed, to comply with any term or provision of these Terms of Service, we also may terminate this agreement at any time without notice and you will remain liable for all amounts due up to and including the date of termination; and/or accordingly may deny you access to our Services (or any part thereof).

SECTION 17 - ENTIRE AGREEMENT

The failure of us to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Service shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.

These Terms of Service and any policies or operating rules posted by us on this site or in respect to The Service constitutes the entire agreement and understanding between you and us and govern your use of the Service, superseding any prior or contemporaneous agreements, communications and proposals, whether oral or written, between you and us (including, but not limited to, any prior versions of the Terms of Service).

Any ambiguities in the interpretation of these Terms of Service shall not be construed against the drafting party.

SECTION 18 - GOVERNING LAW

These Terms of Service and any separate agreements whereby we provide you Services shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of New York in the United States.

SECTION 19 - CHANGES TO TERMS OF SERVICE

You can review the most current version of the Terms of Service at any time at this page.

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to update, change or replace any part of these Terms of Service by posting updates and changes to our website. It is your responsibility to check our website periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to our website or the Service following the posting of any changes to these Terms of Service constitutes acceptance of those changes.

SECTION 20 - CONTACT INFORMATION

Questions about the Terms of Service should be sent to us at sales@gauchobuenosaires.com.

 

Gaucho Buenos Aires — Heritage

El Mundo
Gaucho

A people born of open land, mixed blood, and radical freedom. Everything we make traces back to what they carried, wore, and believed.

I — La Historia

Born from the Pampa

Siglo XVII — Río de la Plata

The gaucho didn't emerge from any nation — he preceded them. In the borderless centuries before Argentina, Uruguay, and southern Brazil existed as countries, a new kind of man appeared on the Río de la Plata basin: mestizo, the son of Spanish settlers and indigenous Pampa peoples, following no lord but the horizon.

His economy was cattle — millions of them, running wild across grasslands the size of Europe. He caught them, broke them, butchered them. He moved with them. For almost two centuries, the gaucho was the engine of an entire continent's trade: hides shipped to Europe, tallow rendered for candles, dried beef feeding the colonial world.

And then the nations arrived. Land was fenced and privatized. The open range that had been home to a free man became property he had no claim to. In a few decades, the gaucho was enclosed, conscripted, or turned into a ranch hand on land he once roamed without permission.

He came before the nations did. The fences took his land. They couldn't take the code.

What remained was harder to fence: an idea of what a man owes the objects he carries and the work he does. The expectation that craft and materials should earn their place. The conviction that pride is worn, not announced.

Born from the Pampa
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II — La Vestimenta

Every Piece Has a Purpose

Functional dress, built for the pampa

The gaucho didn't dress for appearance. He dressed for consequence.

Everything he wore had earned its place by solving a specific problem on the open pampa. The wide-brimmed sombrero kept sun off the neck and rain off the face. The pañuelo knotted at the throat caught dust and sweat and doubled as a bandage when there was nothing else. The bombacha — the full, pleated trouser gathered at the ankle — let him ride for eight hours without chafing, breathe in summer heat, and layer beneath a poncho in the southern winter.

Decoration came second, if at all. The silver work on a belt, the tooling on leather — these weren't ornament. They were craft applied to objects that already proved themselves in use. Skill expressed through things that worked first.

Decoration came second. The silver work was craft applied to something that already proved itself.

This is the logic we inherit. When we choose materials, we choose for behavior over appearance: how the leather wears, how it takes on character, what it looks like after a year of use. The aesthetics are real. They came after the function.

Every Piece Has a Purpose
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III — El Facón

The Blade of the Pampa

Tool, weapon, and identity

The facón was not a weapon first.

It was a tool — for butchering cattle on the open range, cutting leather into strips, eating meat off the bone by the fire. The long-bladed dagger worn tucked into the back of the belt was as ordinary as a folding knife today. Every gaucho carried one. Boys were given them young. Men used them daily.

Only in its cultural weight did it become something else. The facón was the object you settled disputes with when the open pampa offered no other court. No judges, no police, no witnesses who'd testify. The blade made a conversation final.

The length of the blade told you the region. The silver on the handle told you the standing. The edge told you the man.

A well-made facón was identity made visible. The style of the blade told you a gaucho's region. The quality of the silver on the handle told you his standing. The condition of the edge told you whether he was a man who took care of what he owned.

Objects tell you who made them. They always have.

Gaucho Traditional Knives

Gaucho Traditional Knives

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IV — La Rastra

Silver on the Belt

Portable wealth, worn with pride

The gaucho had no bank. No fixed address. No title to land. What he had, he wore.

The rastra was the answer: a wide leather belt — the tirador — built from thick Argentine cowhide, set with real silver coins, medallions, and chains, buckled at the front with a heavy silver clasp. The coins were Spanish reales, later Argentine pesos, beaten flat and worked into the leather until they became part of it. A wearable ledger of everything a man had earned and held onto.

When fortune rose, the rastra grew heavier. When it fell, coins disappeared and the leather showed their absence. It was an honest accounting system, worn at the waist where anyone who mattered could read it.

When fortune rose, the rastra grew heavier. When it fell, coins disappeared. An honest ledger, worn where everyone could see.

There was also a practical reason for silver: it didn't rust. On the open range, far from any town, an object had to survive what it met — rain, sweat, months without maintenance. Silver on the belt and leather in the saddle earned their place by outlasting the conditions. Beauty as a by-product of durability. Not the other way around.

Silver on the Belt
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V — El Poncho

Woven Geography

Norte, Centro, Sur — a map in wool

The poncho told you where a man was from before he opened his mouth.

In the northwest — Salta, Jujuy, the high Andean provinces — ponchos came in deep reds and siennas, woven in wool using dye traditions older than the colonial era. In the central provinces, the palettes cooled to blues, grays, and the natural cream of undyed fleece. In Patagonia, they were dark and heavy, built for cold that carried no apology.

A gaucho from Tucumán and a gaucho from Santa Cruz wore entirely different ponchos. The textile was a map. You didn't have to explain yourself — what you wore told the story.

The textile was a map. You didn't have to explain yourself — what you wore told the story.

The poncho was also engineering. Thrown over the shoulders on horseback, it cut the pampero wind — a wind that moved at forty knots and came from nowhere. Spread flat, it became a blanket. Arranged over the recado at night, it was a roof. One object that adapted to whatever the conditions demanded.

This isn't nostalgia for craft. It's a record of what craft actually is: the refusal to make something that only does one thing.

Woven Geography
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VI — La Montura

The Horse as Architecture

El recado — saddle, bed, and home

The gaucho's relationship with his horse was not sentimental. It was structural.

A horse wasn't a companion in the modern sense — it was transportation, tool, social marker, and survival compressed into one animal. A gaucho without a horse was, in the most practical sense, not a gaucho. He might own nothing else: no land, no fixed address, no walls to call his own. On horseback, he was entirely himself.

Nothing was modular. Everything was fitted, shaped, and worn in over years of use. Nothing carried that didn't earn its freight.

The recado — his layered saddle system — was built to match that logic. Unlike the English or Spanish military saddle, the recado wasn't one piece. It was seven or eight: sheepskins, leather pads, a wooden tree frame, a heavy leather seat, a thick outer cover — all lashed together by hand and adjusted over years to fit the specific horse and the specific rider. Nothing interchangeable. Everything fitted and worn in.

After sixteen hours in the saddle, the recado came apart into a camp. The sheepskins stacked flat became bedding. The leather covers became weather protection. What had been a saddle became a complete shelter. Nothing carried that didn't earn its freight.

The Horse as Architecture
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VII — El Mate

The Ritual of Stillness

The one thing the gaucho never did alone

The Ritual of Stillness

The gaucho was alone a lot.

Days on the pampa with nothing but cattle, wind, and distance. Weeks between towns. A life organized around solitary labor — and then, at the end of it, mate.

The calabaza gourd, packed with yerba. The bombilla — a silver straw with a filter at the base. The kettle held just under the boil, never at it. The careful preparation of the first brew, always bitter, always thrown away. Then the passing of a single vessel — the same vessel — from hand to hand around the fire. Without comment, without ceremony, without rank.

If you had it, you shared it. The ritual didn't care about the coins on your belt or the quality of your horse.

This was the one unhurried thing in a life of hard use. Whoever held the gourd was, for that moment, equal to everyone else at the fire. Mate didn't care about the coins on your belt or the quality of your horse.

If you had it, you shared it. That rule holds in Buenos Aires today — in the offices, the workshops, the leather ateliers where Gaucho Buenos Aires is made. The kettle goes around. The same gourd. The same rule.

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Chapéu

Wide-brimmed hat. Sombrero correntino or boina, depending on region.

Lenço

Neck scarf. Dust protection, first-aid tool, identity marker.

Bombacha

Wide pleated trouser gathered at the boot. The gaucho silhouette.

Tirador

Wide leather belt. Anchors the knife, holds the rastra.

Rastra

Silver belt buckle with coin chains. The gaucho's portable wealth.

Facón

Long-bladed dagger. Tool, weapon, and identity in one object.

Recado

Layered saddle system. Doubles as a bed on the open pampa.

Bota de Potro

Boot cut from the leg hide of a foal. Shaped entirely by wear.

We don't make gaucho clothing. We make what the gaucho taught us to value.

Pride worn quietly. Craft that earns its place. Materials chosen for how they age, not how they photograph. The gaucho had no use for things that didn't last — and neither do we.

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Gaucho Buenos Aires — Buenos Aires, Argentina