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Yes. These are the boots worn by Ariel (Julianne Hough) in the new Footloose movie. The cowgirl boots are made by Frye. They will sell out quick… maybe even before the movie comes out. After that, you will find many other swell red boots, but not these. Already sold out in your size? Dying to have them? Check for red Frye boots on ebay. For all your other Footloose merchandising needs, visit someplace else. “Hey, hey! What’s this I see? I thought this was a party. LET’S DANCE!”
Vintage Red. Photo by loveandadventure. …these are good too. I like variegated thread in the summertime.
eBay, you are such a heartbreaker… I’m going to pretend that Sam Shepard outbid me.
Bootmakers can buy piping in spools from supply companies, but often make their own to match custom designs and fancy materials. Bootmakers will cut a narrow strip of leather, skive (thin) the edges… then lay a cord or string down the middle, giving the trim a smooth rounded shape. On the Dave Wheeler Boot (above) the custom made blue piping is a match to the 10 rows of hand stitching. Beautiful.
On the Rocketbuster boot (left) the piping is nearly disguised in the hotrod pin-striping design. Very cool. The pull is on the inside of the boot. You can see the red piping runs along the top of the boot and down the side seam. Notice how the piping is almost invisible, camouflaged in the narrow inlay and the criscross double-row red stitching. The right-hand photo shows and old Tex Robin boot. The leather has worn thru and you can see the cotton cord. The piping on this boot matches the boot leather and lets your eyes focus on the stitch If you have a copy of my book. Flip through the pages… look at the piping. Tell me what you think in the comments below.
Top 2 photos by Marty Snortum. Bottom right photo, by me.
Today, I updated my bootmaker map and my big list of bootmakers… with 5 “new” shops. Al’s Handmade Boots (Houston, TX); Candela Boot Co. (Weimar, TX); Mark James Designs (Rome, GA); R.L. Boyce Handmade Boots (Winthrop, WA) and Tim Alden Custom Boots (Rogue River, OR.) Go visit their websites. Like. Comment. Reshare. Photo of Alvaro Rivera courtesy of Al’s Handmade Boots.
Vintage Dixon Boots. On eBay, $224.99. Buy them now. NOW! Very groovy stitch pattern, 6 row-3 color-orange, green and yellow thread stitching. Worthy of reproduction. James Davis writes about Andy & Nobel Dixon here and here. The bootshop was in Wichita Falls… it looks like this pair hasn’t traveled far from home. (See what I mean about the orange-green-yellow stitching? Cool, no?) Photo courtesy of ebay seller, “Texas Wild Woman Scavenger.”
Tex Robin boots found at a yard sale outside of Blackwell, Texas. Cloth “Coleman, TX” label inside, trademark fender and pulls. Green, yellow and orange stitching outlined with a row of white. I would have never picked these colors. Shows you how little I know.  There are a ton of Old Gringo boots out there.
I think their design work is hit and miss. Old Gringo at its best is timely and hip…keeping up better with fashion and colors than everybody in the boot biz. Other times, their off kilter styles kinda wobble, and it seems like some of their designs just doesn’t sit quite right on a cowboy boot. (…and I can’t say I’ve forgiven them for their sexy COWgirl boot years ago.)
BUT, I do like to give credit when credit is due… the new Erin cowboy boot is brilliant. Old Gringo uses its heavy monochrome stitching like tooling across the boot’s vamp and the collar with florals and scrolls. Box toe.
A “shelf” boot which evokes handcraft, without resorting to bad embossing or hurried handmade copies.  Well done.
Here they are. My new Riff Raff cowboy boots top to toe. What do you think? Pascal’s boots always best when they are good ‘n’ beat up. Absolutely thrashed. His customers are guitar heroes, bikers and Hollywood folks who walk down the red carpet, without wiping their feet first. Thrashing pretty boots like these? …Yep. You just watch me. (See all the close up photos as a set on Flickr.) |
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pattern. This pair was found at a Texas yard sale, I love how the previous owner left the fray hanging.
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