Who invented cowboy boots

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Explore Journal Insight Video. About About Us Our Story. BY Xan Hood. Journal by Samuel Martin. According to Kara McClurg, fashion specialist at the online estate marketplace Everything But The House , rare cowboy boots are always in demand. A well-crafted cowboy boot will last years beyond anything you could buy at the mall. Tradition has it that cowboys, ranchers or anyone else who wore this style of boots would go to a cobbler to have them custom-fitted. The first occurred in the s and s, during the rise of Hollywood Western films.

Actors such as John Wayne and Gregory Peck wore embellished editions for the big screen, spiking demand for a more decadent cowboy boot. In the s, a more simplified boot came back into fashion, followed by a resurgence of everything opulent during the s. Cowboy boots were built to last through everything and have beautiful craftsmanship—some of the same values shared by luxury French fashion houses.

Gucci , Vetements and Jeremy Scott are just a few of the labels that showed western shirts on the runway over the course of the past few seasons. Tom Ford , for instance, showed cowboy boots for his fall collection. We get it: you like to have control of your own internet experience. Discount savings automatically apply. Prices as Marked. Promotion runs continuously.

Excludes clearance. Discount automatically applied. Your browser's Javascript functionality is turned off. Please turn it on so that you can experience the full capabilities of this site. Your Security is important to us. Privacy policy. 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 , 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 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 heel so his foot wouldn't come out of the stirrup during the rough riding on the trails.