These boots are made for walking, but no sane person would wear them

July 5, 2016 • 6:45 am

People keep sending me photos of cowboy boots that have been cut down into sandals with long tops, or “golf boots” with cleats on the bottom. No more! The only good cowboy boot is an old-style cowboy boot. Is there any reader who would wear these, which I saw on eBay?

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My custom boots (real boots) will probably come tomorrow. Stay tuned.

18 thoughts on “These boots are made for walking, but no sane person would wear them”

  3. In Texas, I’m fairly certain we would set you on the nearest thing floating out of the Gulf of Mexico if you were wearing these.

  4. That’s flat out the fugliest, most ridiculous footwear this side of the Vatican.

    1. I’d as lief find a sister in a whorehouse as get caught shod in a pair of those.

  8. It’s not standard gear, but these are worn by some rodeo clowns (which is a pretty impressive job despite what the name implies). Regular sneakers are more common. That said, I’d hate to see them anywhere else.

    A good boot needs to have a “line”, which is hard to describe – a combination of the curve of the sole, the toe, the heel shape and slant, the space under the arch, and the shape of the upper over the foot. Though most custom boots have this, a boot needn’t be expensive or custom to have this line. Many old school Justins are particularly good. Of course, a “boot” without a heel can’t really have a line!

    1. Makes sense – can’t imagine a rodeo clown out there running around in conventional cowboy boots.

  10. I was thinking along the line of clowns, as well, but I was thinking of fans of “Insane Clown Posse”!

  12. Apart from the abysmal excuse for a sole, and the probable difficulty of putting them on, they don’t have a much more garish colour scheme than any boots with a pair of 1980s Yeti gaiters (with the blue-red colour scheme) on them. Which actually do work very well for knee-deep snow (nothing works well for chest-deep snow), thawing snow over soft peat, etc.
    They did do the Yeti gaiters in khaki and olive drab (desert and forest) colours too, but they were hard to get hold of unless you had a friend in the military. (I must admit to never having replaced mine when the rand disintegrated in the mid-1990s. Didn’t get enough use.)
    To be honest, they look more like someone has stuck the top half of a pair of “cowboy boots” onto a pair of regular training shoes, combining the worst aspects of both.

  13. I remember a time when high-heeled sneakers were the in thing for women. They were the ugliest thing you ever saw and I could never understand why anyone ever bought them.

  14. You can still get these. Tony Lama makes them. They call them “Tennie Lama’s”.

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