{"id":15344,"date":"2019-08-14T06:39:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T10:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=15344"},"modified":"2019-08-14T06:39:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T10:39:56","slug":"tecovas-alligator-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=15344","title":{"rendered":"Tecovas Alligator Boots"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Once again, I bit the advertising promo from Tecovas Boots<\/a> and bought myself as an early birthday present a pair of their new line of American Alligator Belly<\/a> cowboy boots. <\/p>\n

I had my eye on Alligator Belly boots for a long time, but prices for them by some other companies, especially Lucchese, were astronomical. <\/p>\n

But when I received an unexpected check for royalties from a book I wrote a long time ago, that happened to be exactly the cost of a new pair of Tecovas Alligator Boots… well…
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\n…I saw that as a sign from the Boot Gods and “bit.” The Tecovas price is kinda high on first glance, but one has to remember the product — exotic American Alligator skins — are farmed in rather small numbers, so the cost increases due to lower availability. (This is my assumption based on knowledge of availability of exotic skins used for boots — not inside information from Tecovas.)<\/p>\n

As usual, the order was processed quickly and the new boots arrived in a few days and were on my feet in the office the very next day.<\/p>\n

\"\"Dress shirt, tie, dress slacks… presenting a technical briefing before an assembly of the highest management… there I am in those snazzy boots. (At my age and stage of career, I am respected for what I know, and am allowed to be a bit eccentric to refuse to wear suits and wear cowboy boots regularly with dress slacks in the office.)<\/p>\n

The boots drew several compliments, especially from the Big Cheese who said, “I always look at whatever boots you wear. Those are nice.”<\/p>\n

When I decoded the fit process for these boots, after learning the hard way that — at least for me and my feet & legs — these boots run small (narrow calfs and slightly more narrow feet), I order a full size larger and they fit great. Too bad I wore the ill-fitting first pair so much that I can’t return them for an exchange using Tecovas’ free return\/exchange policy. Lesson learned.<\/p>\n

In summary, if you’re looking for really nice dress boots and have admired how great Alligator Belly boots look — then consider Tecovas’ new line-up. (I think they call them the Austins. I never really understood why bootmakers devise names for boot styles.)<\/p>\n

Life is short: wear dressy boots to the office!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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