Today I'm going to share a little adventure I had in Austin involving footwear. Cowboy boots to be specific. I recently watched the TV series Friday Night Lights and became an immediate fan of the fictional small town of Dillon, Texas and all the beautiful people that lived there. The characters often wore cowboy boots, so I decided to try them on since they looked so good on Lyla Garrity and Tammy Taylor (and let's not forget Tim Riggins)! My friend, Leah, took me the mecca of cowboy boots in Austin - Allen's Boots. This place is crammed with endless aisles of boots and if I couldn't find a pair I liked here, I doubt I could find a pair anywhere else.
I learned a few things about cowboy boots:
1) They are difficult to get on. But once they are on, they are pretty comfortable.
1) They are difficult to get on. But once they are on, they are pretty comfortable.
2) If you are like me and have large feet in relation to your height, cowboy boots will not help your cause. I felt more like a kangaroo than a cowgirl and, I swear, I could have skied in these bad boys:
3) They come in all sorts of wild colors and designs. Bedazzled boots, y'all?
4) They are wicked expensive. The picture below is a little blurry but these boots costs $1,899.99. I chuckled at how they rounded down the price by a penny, like one cent helps the consumer rationalize the price. For this price I could buy at least FOUR roundtrip tickets to Austin!
It turns out that cowboy boots are not for me. I must have tried on 20 pairs and I just couldn't rationalize the high price for boots I'd wear occasionally in Boston. Plus, a size 10 cowboy boot is HUGE and would eat up way too much space in my carry-on!
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