I have a super-huge boot collection. I really do wear most of my boots throughout the seasons. However, there are some boots that I do not wear (either seasonal or don’t fit but I can’t get rid of), so I store them. I am writing this post as a reminder on how to store boots, and also in reaction to…
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Category Archives: Cowboy Boots
No Smooth-Soled Boots for the Motorcycle Ride
Yay, it’s “dress down Friday,” where men in my office wear denim jeans and informal shirts. No jackets or ties. (Especially “yay” for that!) Even BCO wears dressy jeans and I think we’ve convinced him to ditch the jacket, especially since The Big Cheese doesn’t wear one.
As I was dressing this morning, I looked at my Lucchese Peat Elephant boots and thought …
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Variously Vicariously Booted
Guest post by “VicariousAttorney”
Hi, I am a regular follower of this blog. I was invited to write this post to describe my first contact with this blog’s author when I finally got nerve enough to send him a message to say
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Boot Checker-Outter Booted
Contrary to a comment received on a recent blog post titled The Guy Who Checks Out My Boots about “BCO” with whom I work and has become “boot-wearing curious,” I am happy to report that Mr. BCO has …
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The Guy Who Checks Out My Boots
Every morning at work, I attend and speak briefly at a morning briefing of the Big Cheese and his direct reports, all leaders of the organization for which I work. And every morning, without fail, I catch sight of one of the regular attendees checking out my boots.
Has he said anything?
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If I Had One Choice: Boots, Leather, or My Harley
A friend of mine asked me, “if you had to make one choice… boots, leather, or your Harley,” which would it be?
As my website says, I’m a guy into boots, leather, and Harley(s). (I really only have one motorcycle, but that’s beside the point.)
So if I absolutely had to make a choice of one of these avocations, which would it be?
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Why Don’t Men Wear Boots Any More?
Someone made this comment recently on this blog, and I have received email over the years asking the same question, “why don’t men wear boots any more?”
I have three theories…
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Wearing Jeans with Boots
I continue to be amazed that the web page that I posted six years ago, “Wearing Jeans with Boots” would continue to be the most popular page on my website of all time. Statistics reveal that this one page out of 707 receives over 20% of the daily visits to my site.
99% of these visits are driven by search engines. When looking at the questions entered in search engines, the #1 question that is searched is,
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A Booted Man
In thinking about what to write as I restart my musings on this blog, I reflect on what inspired my website’s name … bootedman.com.
It is amusing to think back to 2004 when I was diligently cataloging my boot collection, taking low-res digital photos of my boots, and using a primitive HTML coding processor offered by my ISP at the time (my cable TV provider.) As I was developing that crude first-attempt website, I had a number of conversations with Larry of hotboots.com fame, and his exceptionally creative and technically adept husband, Bill.
Bill urged me to create my very own website, on my own domain, and suggested ways that I could improve my web-building techniques.
So there I was, thinking to myself, “what web domain name would work for what I want to do, and what is not already taken?” I thought long and hard about myself…
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Boot Blogging
Over the last several months, over 90% of the visitors driven by search engines to this blog are looking for information about boots. Cowboy boots: wearing them with suits, heel and toe types, how they fit, etc. — and motorcycle boots: what boot works best on a motorcycle, and many searches about motorcycle police boots.
Few, if any visitors care about my daily life, and I don’t blame ’em. I lead a boring life filled with mundane activities. I work full time, care for my spouse and his recovery from a horrible prolonged and torturous illness, and occasionally when weather permits, post about riding my Harley. I look after a bunch of LOLITs (little old ladies in tennis shoes), and am engaged with my community in civic voluntarism, including home remodeling projects for people who need that kind of help.
But people don’t care about that, so there will be less posts about those activities.
For the next while (however long a while is), I will post…
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