This is a take-off from an article about (dorky-looking clone-style) dress shoes found in the Business Insider on-line magazine. The article is titled, “Why You Should Never Wear Leather-Soled Dress Shoes In The Rain.”

First of all, articles written in the negative (“never”) are opposite from what one should do, so that is why I wrote the title of this blog post the way I did: be positive, not negative.

Second, confident guys wear boots. They don’t give a flying frig about those pansy style bloggers. Dress boots look just as good (or in my opinion, better) than dorky clone (clown) dress shoes.

So here is why guys who wear dressy footwear with leather soles should wear rubber-soled boots in the rain…
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Several years ago, I was contacted by a guy who explained that he liked to wear boots, but did not have the courage (at the time) to wear them that often. He referred to himself as “the only booted man in town” because as a resident of a U.S. state in the northeastern part of our country, he felt quite alone as he was the only man who wore boots in his geographic area.

Subsequently over time and as our friendship developed, my friend began to wear boots more often, including to his place of work, and elsewhere in his community. He has become much more confident as a “bootman” and has ditched wearing dress shoes. Good for him!

But as I look around where I live, further south but in a state that is on the U.S. East Coast, I realize that I should not have…
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I received a question from a loyal blog reader who asked,

I recently purchased my first pair of full quill ostrich boots and have a question about caring for them. Do I need to worry about damaging the raised follicles when rubbing in conditioner or buffing polish? Some of them have a bit of ‘fray’ at the crown of the bump that moves back and forth as I rub them. Is some dulling of the follicles on ostrich leather normal with wear?

Ah, yes, how does one care for ostrich skin cowboy boots?
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