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  • Boots

    • They dont look Texan

      Votes: 25 73.5%
    • Yeah they are Texan

      Votes: 9 26.5%

    • Total voters
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    Lunyfringe

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    As a young guy I worked cattle ranches and later worked on two dairy farms as a haying hand among other work.

    Not once did I wear western duds.

    Why not?

    Wearing the style of clothing harkening from more than a century ago I think looks as ridiculous as wearing a pirate costume complete with a wooden peg-leg, a hand hook and a parrot on one shoulder.

    Looking like a western all decked out drugstore cowboy as a claim on Texas culture is laughable. Most especially if you wear one of those western hats that vaguely remind me of a sailing ship.

    Vasque Sundowner laced hikers and a baseball cap is about as western as I get and I've lived here all my life.
    I will more likely dress Alaskan... wear whatever I feel like and DGAF what others think about it.

    unless I'm going to a job interview- or maybe court. Haven't done either in a real long time.
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    TxStetson

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    I bet you'd wear Tactical Crocks if they made them.
    I believe he wore these to the meet up last spring.
     
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    You put more pressure on the rubber sole heel verses the front when walking on slick concrete or pavement.

    It's a different feel then tennis shoes. The front is slippery. The heel has grip. Putting weight on the ball of your foot and you'll bust your butt.
     

    deemus

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    Is it just me or do they look like womens boots with that heel height?

    New boots have different heel heights. Used to be it was roper or riding boots. Lots of options these days. Big square toe, little square toe, hardly any round toe, only pointy toe boots are Mexican and are really long. So many choices in fact I decided to not buy any recently. Gonna require some thought.

    Not wrangling cattle any more, so don't need the tall dogging heel. Tend toward the roper heel, but the OP heel pic is ok. Went to NRS recently. Way too many choices.
     

    Wiliamr

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    A bit on my boot history - my first non military boots (brogans) were built at Capital Saddlery in 1966. I made that old man cobbler a bit nutty with my request on the boots, heavy suede outer and pigskin inner lining. I wanted a square toe with a wide pitch because my feet are very wide at the toes. He measured and came up with a boot that fit amazingly well. Cost was like 150 If I recall. What is that like in todays money? I also messed around that place while Mr. Steiner was not around (he was pretty much a butthead) I built my saddle and would take it to CS to get pointers from Mr. Dunn. I rode that saddle for a number of years and gave it to a girlfriend. I have no idea where it is now. Most of my leather working skills were learned there. I learned a great deal about boot history from Mr. Dunn. In early 1970 I got another pair of boots with a rounded toe and a riding heel, spur ledge and mule-ears cost me about 500 dollars. I still have those boots. The suede pair were destroyed in flooding in 1978, two weeks underwater in mostly brackish did a number on them .
     

    SQLGeek

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    Wiliamr

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    Holy Crap! I knew the 500 was high back then, but man those boots fit my odd shapped feet. I have low arches, and the toes are really wide like 4e
     

    karlac

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    A bit on my boot history - my first non military boots (brogans) were built at Capital Saddlery in 1966. I made that old man cobbler a bit nutty with my request on the boots, heavy suede outer and pigskin inner lining. I wanted a square toe with a wide pitch because my feet are very wide at the toes. He measured and came up with a boot that fit amazingly well. Cost was like 150 If I recall. What is that like in todays money? I also messed around that place while Mr. Steiner was not around (he was pretty much a butthead) I built my saddle and would take it to CS to get pointers from Mr. Dunn. I rode that saddle for a number of years and gave it to a girlfriend. I have no idea where it is now. Most of my leather working skills were learned there. I learned a great deal about boot history from Mr. Dunn. In early 1970 I got another pair of boots with a rounded toe and a riding heel, spur ledge and mule-ears cost me about 500 dollars. I still have those boots. The suede pair were destroyed in flooding in 1978, two weeks underwater in mostly brackish did a number on them .

    Raised on a horse farm, bought my first pair of cowboy boots from Stelzigs, on Travis in downtown Houston (Pop 500,000+/- at the time), circa 1957.
     
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