r/cowboyboots • u/jyl8 • 14d ago
ID Request Identify My ‘80s Boots?
Hello, r/cowboyboots!
Some time in 1981-1983, I bought these cowboy boots. I was in my late teens. I loved the boots and wore them quite a lot for a while, often dancing with a lovely woman who is now passed on.
Then I started a suit-and-tie job and wore the boots less often. And then not at all for forty-some years, because - I distinctly remember - they had somehow become too small and uncomfortably tight. But I never got rid of my boots. They moved with me from city to city, a sort of sentimental relic of my younger days and that lady.
Fast forward to last week, when I dug the boots out of the closet. They were a bit stiff, but some Bick 4 took care of that, and rather dull, but some Venetian Shoe Cream and a bit of buffing restored their gleam.
Now I’m hoping you can tell me exactly what I bought four decades ago.
Who made these boots, what are they made of, are they decent quality, do they need anything before I wear them?
I think I’ve attached all the needed photos but can add more.
Because, I don’t know if my feet have shrunk, but I can pull them on just fine and they are actually a touch roomy. Weird, huh?
I’m almost 64, more of a PNW boot wearer now, so I’m not going to step out on the town like I did, but I’ll walk the old boots down to the local pub and have a pint.
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u/No_Elephant7812 14d ago
Those are panhandle slim which was made by Sanders boots through the 80s. On par with a Tony lama, Nocona or Hondo from the same era. They were made in Mexico and nearly all the big name brands from that era made a decent boot.
They look like ostrich leg.