Cowboy Boots
All around the world, for hundreds of years, anyone who considered themselves
a horsemen chose to wear higher-heeled boots to display that they were a rider
and sometimes to show nobility. This pattern of high heeled cowboy boots was
popular throughout most of the 20th century, but now you're seeing a trend for the
ladies to have the higher heels and the guys getting more reasonably sized
heels.
The actual origin of the cowboy boot is impossible to pinpoint, as horsemen
have been protecting their feet since the fifth century, in the times of Attila
the Hun and his band of warriors. Yet somehow, when the world sees a cowboy boot
on display, they immediatly think of the American Cowboy. The cowboy boot is as
American as applie pie.
I don't mean to suggest that you've got a little bit of Attila in you
everytime you pull up your cowboy boots, but it's amazing to think how something
we use today hasn't changed that much since near biblical times.
Cowboy Boot Pictures
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