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Cowboy Boots

Yahoody

One Too Many
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I've worn cowboy boots off and on since I was a kid. Mom was pretty adamant early on that cowboy boots were not the best thing for your feet. Her father could attest to that later in life. I remember my mother messaging my Grandfather's feet many times. Now I better understand why. I've seem plenty of old cowboys hobble along later in life, because of bad feet. Hobbled up by bad horses/cows, hard labor and cowboy boots. My guess is more bad boots than bad animals. Now decades alter I too can testify to just how bad even the best custom made boots are for most feet.

I literally have baskets full of high dollar custom boots from many makers I can no longer wear because of arthritis in my feet.

I have little choice but to wear boots or sell out and make a significant change of life style. I wear out a pair of good boots almost every year. Some store bought boots will last 2 years if I rotate them often enough. Abought the time they are "good to go" they are gone :) Good pair of custom boots? Wouldn't make it a year of daily wear here.

Water and heat, and we have an abundance of both 6 months of the year, is a death sentence for any boot.

Ariat's. Good for a 2 year stretch generally if they get rotated a lot and kept out of the irrigated grass and the arena's sand box as much as possible. With a lick of a good leather conditioner, once dry again, these should make it till Spring before the tops cracking.

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13,627
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down south
Lucchese Classic Ropers today in Buffalo. For the morning Harley ride ahead of 4 days of rain and storms !

I have had these over 10 years ( I forget exactly when....)

One photo used in other posts , no whingeing ! The second shot is them "in action" !)

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I really like how those have a much more pointed toe than most roper or wellington style boots, and they sure look like they take a shine. That's a good looking set of boots.
 

2mar10

One of the Regulars
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Sizing is such a crapshoot. I found a lovely pair of Mahan peanut brittle tegu with one piece vamps. Label is El Paso so could be Lama or Lucchese. They're stamped 10D but a 9-1/2C is more like it, can't even get my foot in...


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The stitching on the shafts looks more like Tony Lama than Lucchese, but at their age, I could be wrong. Come to think of it, at MY age I could be wrong.
 

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