Boots and Heels.

My wife grew up in a small town where cowboy boots were de rigueur She had a pair of good quality pointy tipped style boots when she was 13. Three to four years later the boots had held up but local fashion, slow moving as it was, had moved on. Justin "Ropers" were the boots to have. They come to mid calve and had rounded toes and frills. This was when Urban Cowboy came out and the country folk were going out of their way not to look like that. No fancy stitching or adornment of any kind. She wanted a pair too.

Her family couldn't afford Genuine Justin Roper's so they got the next best thing for about $125 she was proud to own a pair of ACME (like the coyote's supplier) "Ropers". This was a birthday present they got her even though they were rolling change to meet the mortgage. So she loved those boots.

As of late we have considered moving to the country. My new job will take me out there every other week as it is. The 12 year-olds biggest hesitation about moving out to the country is the lack of dumpsters, but I think she'll adjust to scrounging off the land when I show her how.

I haven't dove much lately, so I thought I'd write about some earlier finds. The first pair of serious grown-up heels that the 12 year old got came from a dive. She still gets compliments on them. She now has at least a dozen pairs at least 1/2 or more of them came from various dives. If not for the first dove-for pair I might have vetoed the idea of a 12 year old in heels.


One night we found some shoes of various descriptions and what looked like a plain pair of boots. I got them home and they were - you guessed it - a pair of Genuine Justin Ropers in my wife's size. Today we found me a pair of Gen-you-wine Justin "Western" pointy toed boots at a thrift store for $7, which wasn't free but cheap at twice the price as it were.

Here we are in our dove-for and thrift-store finest! Now, when I have an assignment out in the country, I have "dirt road cred". I think I will include our thrifting finds on this blog too in the future rather than starting yet another blog about that subject.