Boots

What is it about cowboy boots? Is it the style? The function? The history? Maybe a little of both.
Just think about it for a second, how many styles of shoes are still around since the 1800s?
There are songs, and stories, art, and movies that all somehow pertain to the cowboy boot.

No one really knows who the original inventor of the cowboy boot was.
According to several different stories and legends, the first pair of cowboy boots was made by either a shoemaker in Kansas, or by one in Texas. Either way, the story is still the same. After the Civil War was over in 1865, the cowboys who were driving cattle across the country discovered that they needed a different style of boots. The ones worn during the war just didn’t suit the long hours riding on the trails: blazing through the brush, splashing through creeks, and riding with their feet in stirrups for hours at a time.
Around 1870 some ingenious cowboy took his boots to a shoemaker and asked for a pointy toe so he could get his foot into the stirrup more easily; a taller shaft to protect his legs; and a bigger, thicker, underslung heal so his foot wouldn’t come out of the stirrup during the rough riding on the trails.
The same reason they are made today.

And for me and Josh the comforting feel of a pair of worn in old boots is one of the best things you can come by. When the talk of shoes for the wedding came up there was no doubt about what we would be wearing. Josh in his beat up pair of Ariats and me in my turquoise and brown Tony Lamas.


And as Joey + Rory put it in their song "Boots",
'Been resoled a dozen times;
Crushed some cans and soaked some wine;
Aww but that’s what makes them shine, they’re a part of me;
They’ve seen lovers come and go til we met the right pair at the rodeo;
Oh that’s just the way love goes;
Some things are meant to be;

Kickin' off when you're tired and sore;
That's what boots are for.'

Our boots (my many) have surely met the right pair. :)

And the pair that marched into my life and stole my heart couldn't be anymore beat up and worn in :)...

And I love them almost as much as the man that wears them :)

and that's all I have to say on that :)
x's & o's Grace