This real leather black oil cowboys boots oryginally man made in Mexico!
Due to the many different parts there are in cowboy boots, the making of cowboy boots is a very complicated process involving several different steps. Today, most cowboy boots are made in factories by quality manufacturers.
Alligator, ostrich, traditional leather -- all of these are choices of cowboy boots materials from which a pair of boots might be produced. There are exotic animal skins as well, such as cobra, anteater, and kangaroo. Each material has a different purpose and a different look.
Buying cowboy boots can be very quick and easy. Cowboy boots are great for the “urban” cowboy as well as the traditional cowboy. Great with suits or dresses, cowboy boots can complete the outfit of any cowboy or cowgirl in the city, in the county, anywhere.
Cowboy boots are not only functional and practical; they can also be the inspiration for many different art forms. Cowboy boots are used in paintings, literature, and poetry.
History
No one really knows who the original inventor of cowboy boots 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 and brambles, splashing through creeks and rivers, 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 knee-high design protected his legs from the thorns of mesquite trees, barbed wire, snakes, and other dangers. The cowboy boots were pulled on with long mule-ear straps but were loose enough on the top so that they could be wiggled out of easily if the cowboy was hung up in the stirrup and needed to get out in a hurry. The tough leather that the cowboy boots were made from also protected the cowboy’s ankles from being bruised by the wooden stirrups, and his legs from rubbing against the stirrup leathers. The cowboy boots were stitched on the outside to keep the leather from buckling and eventually rubbing against the cowboy’s leg.
Lucchese Boots
The high, underslung heel of the cowboy boot also served to protect the cowboy. He could dig that heel into the ground when pulling a stubborn mule or when leading his horse down a steep and rocky trail. The heel also kept the cowboy’s foot from going all the way through the stirrup so that if he were thrown from his horse he wouldn’t get stuck in the stirrup and drug on the ground. And just like that, the first pair of cowboy boots was born.
CONDITION: Used [but very good!]
SIZE: 44