No, I haven’t let this blog die. I need to get motivated to write again. So here goes.
Over the years and recently as well, I have received messages from guys who have complimented me on how I appear in boots and leather and comment on their personal concerns about wearing this gear.
No, contrary to fears, most people (at least those who are civil and educated), will not look at someone wearing boots or perhaps leather jeans and say something uncomplimentary.
In my experience dating back more than 40 years, actually…
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After a brutally hot and sweaty summer which extended into the first weeks of November, it has finally consistently become “leather weather.”
Ol’ Booted Harleydude produced a bunch of videos back in the day about boots and leather. Some of the videos were just for fun; some were tutorials, such as tips on breaking in new Dehner Patrol Boots or ordering Wesco Boots.
As some people, including me, have said over time — it takes guts to wear certain articles of clothing out in public, especially if others are not accustomed to seeing you wearing such items such as boots and/or leather garments (besides a leather jacket.)
Continuing for a bit about wearing leather garments, I said in
This blog has its roots in promoting the natural feel of comfort of wearing boots and leather garments. For the past several months (years?), I have strayed a bit from the boots-n-leather blogging to share more personal musings about my life, same-sex marriage, travel, motorcycle riding as a guy ages, (lots of “as a guy ages” posts), and other material not related to the roots of this blog.

One may think that I receive a large number of messages via this blog and
I realize that most readers of this blog come here for anything other than political rants, yet here I have been in the last several weeks (and actually for months) allowing this blog to be overcome by my feelings of contempt for the political climate in the United States. What is hardest for me is that I have served…