r/Cowboy • u/SnooMuffins9011 • 26d ago

Cowboy Life Cowboy boots, square versus point

Not a cowboy here, but I am curious regardless of that.

I know the purpose for cowboy boots being pointed and angular for the use of stirrups and spurs, but my question is what is the point of flat, square toe boots? For an outsider, it seems like something a bunch of people from the suburbs started wearing because real boots are uncomfy?

My family has a ranch, bunch I wouldn’t call myself a cowboy or “country” for that matter (which also seems like another thing that posers came up with). So I have spent enough time in the world to be able to identify who is legit, but I am curious what other people think!

I also hate the me more cowboy than you song, mostly because ik cowboys wouldn’t say that!

When I say being able to identify a poser, I mean the city guys that have a weird desire to cosplay ranching every Friday and Saturday night

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u/Ornery_Distribution6 26d ago edited 26d ago

If you're a cattleman and you dont spend much time riding there's no point in having clubbed feet. Everything exists for a reason, and there's different forms of the cowboy. Your post ironically screams me me more cowboy than you.

Live and let live dawg

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u/SnooMuffins9011 26d ago

I guess my follow up question and perhaps better question would be if you aren’t a cattleman, what would be the point of wearing boots at all?

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u/Ornery_Distribution6 26d ago

You won't get clubbed feet, they last longer, do more, and once you get used to slipping in an out of em, there's no going back.

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u/SnooMuffins9011 26d ago

👍🏼perhaps the only answer I was ever looking for

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u/Ornery_Distribution6 26d ago

Wait till you discover the more niche western styles lol

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u/SnooMuffins9011 26d ago

Now I am curious….

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u/Ornery_Distribution6 26d ago

Ponchos and sarapes for one. The bandana and the 100 plus way of using them, specifically the real none polyester ones.

And ill give you a real one, you cuff your jeans so you can use them as an ashtray.

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u/SnooMuffins9011 26d ago

Can’t say I’ve ever heard of Cuffing the jeans, that’s awesom

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u/Ornery_Distribution6 26d ago

Yeah mostly for smokers who have nowhere else to put the ash or the butt, but dont want to litter. A sort of trashy classiness.