Wearing cowboy boots when you aren't a cowboy

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Posted: 3/16/2010 5:54:07 AM EDT

Just found an old pair of diamond back rattler western boots that I wore back in my 20's. Not a cowboy nor a counrty boy. Aside from being too tight now, they are damn cool looking with jeans on. So the question is, non cowboy/country boy wearing western boots, gay or not gay?

Posted: 3/16/2010 5:54:35 AM EDT

[#1]

If you have to ask...

Posted: 3/16/2010 5:55:11 AM EDT

[#2]

I wear tennis shoes sometimes, and I don't play tennis.

Posted: 3/16/2010 5:55:21 AM EDT

[#3]

Wear what u want.

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Posted: 3/16/2010 5:56:14 AM EDT

[#4]

If you tuck the jeans into them, GAY

If you don't, NOT GAY

Posted: 3/16/2010 5:59:37 AM EDT

[#5]

Let it go, there are posers everywhere.

Posted: 3/16/2010 5:59:50 AM EDT

[#6]

Ok in the midwest and west. Gay in the east.

Posted: 3/16/2010 6:00:00 AM EDT

[#7]

Of course not.

I wonder how many of the people who voted yes are wearing tennis shoes and don't play tennis?

Posted: 3/16/2010 6:02:20 AM EDT

[#8]

Anykind of reptile skin = gay.

Posted: 3/16/2010 6:03:56 AM EDT

[#9]

I sometimes wear a baseball cap.

Draw your own conclusions.

Posted: 3/16/2010 6:04:23 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:

Anykind of reptile skin = gay.

What if the guy actually killed the python/crocodile and had a pair of boots made out of them?

Posted: 3/16/2010 6:04:51 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:

I sometimes wear a baseball cap.

Draw your own conclusions.

What Major League team do you play for?

Posted: 3/16/2010 6:04:52 AM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:

Ok in the midwest and west. Gay in the east.

Not well suited for the big city middle of winter.

Posted: 3/16/2010 6:05:26 AM EDT

[#13]

I own a shitload of boots.

I no longer own a horse or cow.

Maybe I should sell my farm, since I don't have any chickens......

Posted: 3/16/2010 6:07:03 AM EDT

[#14]

It doesn't seem manly to be concerned about such things. For sure, the number of men who wear cowboy boots who only have the bullshit on the inside––and never on the outside––no doubt exceeds the number of actual cowboys.

Ironically, my farm is in cattle country and I've never seen a cattle man wearing cowboy boots. I'm sure there are some who do, but I haven't met any––or perhaps just didn't notice what they were wearing, which brings me back to my first point . . .

Posted: 3/16/2010 6:07:10 AM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:

I own a shitload of boots.

I no longer own a horse or cow.

Maybe I should sell my farm, since I don't have any chickens......

How much are you asking?

Wait, I'll only buy it if you throw in at least one chicken....don't want to look like a poseur afterall.

Posted: 3/16/2010 6:11:10 AM EDT

[#16]

Are you a Yankee?

I don't know for sure what a Yankee is, you understand. But I'm 80% sure non-cowboy Yankee's shouldn't wear them. Calling anyone West of the Mississippi a "Yankee", of course, is going to get you laughed at. So somewhere East of the Mississippi and North of something lies a semi-mythical land that I have no desire to visit where men shouldn't wear cowboy boots. Unless you tuck your pant legs into your boots. Then you look stupid wherever you are.

Otherwise, fuck off. I'm not taking a rattler bite in the leg because you think you're Mr. Fashion

Posted: 3/16/2010 6:12:21 AM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:

I own a shitload of boots.

I no longer own a horse or cow.

Maybe I should sell my farm, since I don't have any chickens......

You live in Texas.

Sneakers would be gay in Texas.

Posted: 3/16/2010 6:14:04 AM EDT

[#18]

Wear 'em!

I wear mine all the damn time, hell I'm sitting on my ass at work today and I've got my Lucchese on.

Posted: 3/16/2010 6:17:40 AM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:

Wear 'em!

I wear mine all the damn time, hell I'm sitting on my ass at work today and I've got my Lucchese on.

Excellent choice, and made in Texas too.

Posted: 3/16/2010 6:18:41 AM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:

Wear 'em!

I wear mine all the damn time, hell I'm sitting on my ass at work today and I've got my Lucchese on.

Again, another guy in Texas.

Look, while you Texas guys can wear Wranglers, Pearl button shirts, and cowboy boots,

that will not fly in New York, except in a gay bar. No offense intended, that's just a fact.

OP is in Illinois and so I'm going to say the same applies to him, at least in the city.

Won't fly in Toronto either.

Posted: 3/16/2010 6:19:25 AM EDT

[#21]

"Cowboy" boots fine...."Pimp boots" not so much ....

Posted: 3/16/2010 6:20:49 AM EDT

[#22]

I wear western boots, I live in Upstate NY.

Not so many wear them around here, but I grew up in Missouri where they were more common and I like them.

Posted: 3/16/2010 6:22:23 AM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
Just found an old pair of diamond back rattler western boots that I wore back in my 20's. Not a cowboy nor a counrty boy. Aside from being too tight now, they are damn cool looking with jeans on. So the question is, non cowboy/country boy wearing western boots, gay or not gay?
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a368/DEG169/no-2147-34-403-NtrlWstrnDmnRtlsnk13.jpg

That's "stolen honor". We have laws against that!

Posted: 3/16/2010 6:23:09 AM EDT

[#24]

Everybody in Texas wears boots. 99.9% of us aren't cowboys.

It's the unique style of western culture, not a uniform.

Posted: 3/16/2010 6:24:29 AM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:

Everybody in Texas wears boots. 99.9% of us aren't cowboys.

It's the unique style of western culture, not a uniform.

Exactly.

Posted: 3/16/2010 6:25:57 AM EDT

[#26]

There's not enough cowboys left to fill all those boots. When I see someone in cowboy boots, I don't think cowboy. Just cool boots.

Posted: 3/16/2010 6:36:19 AM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Just found an old pair of diamond back rattler western boots that I wore back in my 20's. Not a cowboy nor a counrty boy. Aside from being too tight now, they are damn cool looking with jeans on. So the question is, non cowboy/country boy wearing western boots, gay or not gay?
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a368/DEG169/no-2147-34-403-NtrlWstrnDmnRtlsnk13.jpg

That's "stolen honor". We have laws against that!

If you're walking around with spurs on, that right there is. Or if not, then at least some kind of weird S&M thing that I don't want to hear about. Or just something.
Or your horse just died and you'd damn well better have a saddle on your shoulder.

Posted: 3/16/2010 6:41:04 AM EDT

[#28]

Why do Cowboys have Their names embossed on the back of Their belts?

So the Truck Driver will know what to call Them while "rodgering" Them from behind!

The Ol' Crew Chief

Posted: 3/16/2010 6:44:44 AM EDT

[#29]

To us folks who rode horses and such growing up....

YOU LOOK GAY!!

Stop doing it. A "tennis sho, or cross trainer, or whatever" Can still function as a traction device when not on an animal.

Those "cowboy" boots do NOT.

Don't tell me otherwise, I have been in them half my life. "While on horses."

Yes, it is in fact GAY.

Posted: 3/16/2010 7:14:22 AM EDT

[#30]

Anything covered in rattlesnake skin, IS NOT A COWBOY BOOT, regardless of what the retailer called it when you bought it. Sorry bud, but those are the ghey.

Posted: 3/16/2010 7:15:47 AM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:

Ok in the midwest and west. Gay in the east.

Ok in the Southeast? I wear 'em everyday

Posted: 3/16/2010 7:24:57 AM EDT

[#32]

I voted before I saw the pic, I need to recind my "not gay" vote and change it to "gay"

regular cowboy boots without all the faggotry are not gay.

Posted: 3/16/2010 7:25:01 AM EDT

[#33]

Wear a viking helmet & a tutu for all I care.

Posted: 3/16/2010 7:26:36 AM EDT

[#34]

It's gay if you are a city boy.

Posted: 3/16/2010 7:26:56 AM EDT

[#35]

If you suck cock or take it in the ass while wearing them, it's gay.

If not, not gay.

Posted: 3/16/2010 7:26:58 AM EDT

[#36]

No, but kissing a guy for $100,000 is.

Posted: 3/16/2010 7:28:46 AM EDT

[#37]

I only think it is gay to ask ARFCOM for fashion advice

Wear what you want...

Posted: 3/16/2010 7:30:23 AM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:

No, but kissing a guy for $100,000 is.

That's kind of a lot of money for not very much gay... seems like a good deal?

Posted: 3/16/2010 7:32:03 AM EDT

[#39]

not gay, in the same league as wearing cammies and not being a Marine sniper

Posted: 3/16/2010 7:32:18 AM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:
I only think it is gay to ask ARFCOM for fashion advice

Wear what you want...

Yeah, wear them with your kilt, just stop staring at my ass.

Posted: 3/16/2010 7:32:29 AM EDT

[#41]

Wearing boat shoes on dry land is not gay.
Wearing running shoes while walking is not gay.
Wearing hiking boots to a restaraunt is not gay.

Posted: 3/16/2010 7:33:35 AM EDT

[#42]

Mine are strictly for wear in the boudoir. Rowr.

Posted: 3/16/2010 7:34:00 AM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:
It doesn't seem manly to be concerned about such things.

You are correct sir.

The appropriate response being "Fuck you, I'll kick your God damn teeth in with my cowboy boots."

Posted: 3/16/2010 7:34:11 AM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:

Quoted:
No, but kissing a guy for $100,000 is.

That's kind of a lot of money for not very much gay... seems like a good deal?

Yeah, right.

Posted: 3/16/2010 7:35:41 AM EDT

[#45]

Totally gay. I have an uncle who wears those mexican fence-climbing boots. Don't know how he does it.

Posted: 3/16/2010 7:40:53 AM EDT

[#46]

Quoted:
Wear 'em!

I wear mine all the damn time, hell I'm sitting on my ass at work today and I've got my Lucchese on.

Sir, FWIW I've worn Justin and Lucchese boots for about as long as I can remember. Off and on I've lived in SE Virginia since the late '60s and I could care less what anyone else may think of the boots I wear. I'm a native born Californian and I've lived all over the country including Hawaii. When I lived in Italy, there sure seemed to be a lot of Italians that like boots, what's a "cowboy"? JMHO, 7zero1.

Posted: 3/16/2010 7:43:58 AM EDT

[#47]

Quoted:
Just found an old pair of diamond back rattler western boots that I wore back in my 20's. Not a cowboy nor a counrty boy. Aside from being too tight now, they are damn cool looking with jeans on. So the question is, non cowboy/country boy wearing western boots, gay or not gay?
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a368/DEG169/no-2147-34-403-NtrlWstrnDmnRtlsnk13.jpg

Those look gay.

Posted: 3/16/2010 7:45:17 AM EDT

[#48]

Cowboy boots are sexy as hell.

Posted: 3/16/2010 7:48:03 AM EDT

[#49]

I'm not a cowboy and I wear cowboy boots.

Call me gay if you want to. I don't give a fuck. I live in Texas, drive a Peterbilt, have a hankerin' for Copenhagen, and wear really, really fucking comfortable boots. These are my workboots. I need to get another pair of Noconas (mine are worn out) or something for non-work wear.
Steel-toe Justin Ropers. (My picture is shitty and the mirror is filthy, I know).