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Summary: How to understand the materials used in making cowboy boots; get expert tips and advice on cowboy boot styles and maintenance in this free fashion video.
Dustin Williams has worked for AA Callister three years, and he would love to help you pick out a cowboy hat. AA Callister carries over 300 boots.read more
"Hi. I am Dustin Williams here at A.A Callisters on behalf of Expert Village. Today I'm going to talk about different types of leathers. Basically there is two major groups. One is going to be domestics and others are going to be exotics. Now you might ask well, what am I gonna be using what for what? Domestics basically when it comes to mind cow skin obviously and there's lot of different types of cow skin out there. Different types of varieties. Now you'll see here there also a deer skin like these ones here. Which are supple. It just depends on what you're going to be using it for. Then when you got, you're kind of sick of your domestics we've got exotics. And the exotics come from every animal under the sun. Mostly reptiles. We have you'll see here mostly Nile crocodile. We have American alligator. Taywho lizard which is an Argentine lizard. Some iguanas. We have, we have some shark skins here. Oh, here's elephant, elephant here. Now you might say hey they are endangered but now there are restrictions on these here. They can only be farm raised. There's elephant. We also have, if I can find them. We have horse skin which is here now. That might be a little hypocritical a cowboy being, wearing some horses but they're very soft and very supple but strong. Much like ostrich. Ostrich is also used in a lot of boots. And that's just a few samples that we have here."
eHow Article: The Materials & Design of Cowboy Boots