Things to Look For when Buying Cowboy Boots

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm Dustin Williams here on behalf of ExpertVillage.com. Here at A.A Callisters and tonight I'm going to show you what you're going to be looking for to pick the best boot out on the market today. Now, first thing you want look for is the leather. Now when you look in leather, you want to see, like this one here, it's perfect example. You wanna look, now might not necessarily mean it's bad. But you might wanna look for knicks and scratches. Which might indicate that it's a defect in the boot. These ones here happen not to be. It's actually a style. This here is called the shrunken shoulder but you wanna be aware of the nicks and scratches in your boots because it could later on cause you problems. Also when you look, you wanna look for wrinkles. Because wrinkles might, when youtan a boot, now this one obviously does not have any wrinkles. But when you tan a boot it can create a marble defect. Which might not be dishonorable for most people. You might also want to look for the, the type of leather they are looking at. Make sure that there are no knicks and flaws in even the upper leather. Now here, when they use something like this, this is taken from the belley. And the reason that they put this here, one its softer against your legs and it's not gonna take the abuse such as down here. It's a little higher grain of leather, it's a top grain leather. You might also want to look for in a boot, you might also want to look for the stitching. Make sure that there's no gaps between the welt and the soul. Which might cause a defect. And those are just a few simple things that you can look for when you're looking for a boot."