pinch or hurt anywhere, you’ve probably got trouble,” says Roy M. Flynn, custom designer and owner of Boots & Boogie, which sells between 35 and 50 pairs of boots a month. And don’t expect a boot’s fit to change significantly over time. “If it has never been comfortable, odds are it will never become comfortable,” he says. Flynn guarantees fit 100 percent, as will many higher-end shops. Not surprisingly, comfort is also the key when you’re fitting a used boot. So says Kowboyz owner Suzy Grais, who moved her shop to Santa Fe’s Railyard area from Los Angeles four years ago. Kowboyz stocks roughly 5,000 pairs, of which about 10 percent are new (usually factory-made) and 90 percent are used (including handmade vintage). “They’ll fit the same way as a new boot, but softer,” Grais says. “You can walk out of here and start dancing the two-step.”
Back at the Ranch
Desert Son of Santa Fe
Back at the Ranch
Santa Fe boot shops, pictured here and on the opposite page, provide endless options, whether you’re an experienced cowboy boot collector or a novice searching for your very first pair. Choose boots that are new, used, or customordered—in a material, design, and color that suits you—and make sure they fit correctly, right from the start.
Back at the Ranch 209 E Marcy backattheranch.com Boots & Boogie 102 E Water santafebootsandboogie.com Desert Son of Santa Fe 725 Canyon desertsonofsantafe.com Double Take 321 S Guadalupe santafedoubletake.com Kowboyz 345 W Manhattan kowboyz.com Lucchese Boot Company 57 Old Santa Fe Trail lucchese.com Santa Fe Boot Co. 60 E San Francisco santafebootco.com
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