Nice but I'm more "square" toe than that.
Joao,
It's as square as I have or am willing to go. Hope others will post some square toe styles.
Nice but I'm more "square" toe than that.
@gtdean48 Good looking boots, just not for me. Visit any western store these days you'll see more of that style than others. The first decent cowboy boots I bought for myself were Justin mulehides. Wish I still had them.
Nice find!
Usually during the buffing process the polish comes off of the stitching. It's usually nylon thread and won't stain easily. If it does I've used a little fingernail polish remover or acetone on a q-tip to clean up the polish and rebuff with a rag. I always tell my cobbler "dress the sole but don't polish my boots." I always do that myself.
I resisted the square toe look for years. The Cutting & Reining show circuit went there quite a while ago. I was a dyed in the wool Justin Roper wearer for years then went to Ariat Hexcel Pro Ropers for all of my Reining horse show career, roughly 1989 to 1999. Wore medium/semi round toe up to then.
Now I like Luchesse, Rios of Mercedes & USA made Justins now. Age has spread out my foot too, so the square toe is comfortable.
Never have been one for the real pointed toes ever. Still have some semi-round & roper toed boots that I regularly wear.
These are my every day in the saddle ones...
I have read about the good old days (in TX, I suppose) when one took their boots in for a "clean and press" they would refresh heels, polish, cleaning toe bugs decorative colors etc. and bleach the white outsole stitching.
I have purposely dyed-down-to-brown, the white out-sole stitching, as I think it looks loud/cheap, but I'm not a purist either. These custom-tooled Lucchese Classics came through with not only white, but DOUBLE-row white stitching, even though my instructions were to make the stitching dark (as compared to the custom boots I was copying). So, out came the brown sole dressing. Worked out OK.
Oh, and fyi, I still don't believe they are hand-tooled/carved. Both boot shafts are identical and have scary sharp-edges, as opposed to my Tres Outlaws that have apparent, soft differences.
[/QUOTE
Your "hand tooled" Lucchese classics are hand tooled only in the sense that someone hand pushed a button. In regards to white stitching, it is often a request on custom made boots as well as a natural welt. Some like the contrast. As far as looking loud/cheap, that's a matter of personal taste. Sort of the way I feel about the double row stitching on the welt which serves no practical purpose.
Years agoDid they stop selling shoe polish in B'ham?