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I think this is funny, and thought that others here might get a laugh from it too.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) doesn't wear cowboy boots anymore for health reasons. Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson (R) doesn't like it.
Tell Rick that boots can be purchased with normal heels, he told the Austin American-Stateman's Ken Herman for a column Herman wrote about boots. I lament the fact that our governor could now pass for a West Coast metrosexual and has embarrassed us all with his sartorial change of direction.
source: [link:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/07/02/rick-perry-could-pass-for-west-coast-metrosexual-without-his-boots-land-commissioner-says/|
senseandsensibility
(17,130 posts)and a little too sophisticated for the teabagger set.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)They look especially stupid with business apparel. The stupidest ones of all (appropriately enough) were the ones W had made with the presidential seal and wore regularly. I bet that idiot had the presidential seal embroidered on his underwear.
SCUBANOW
(92 posts)A good pair of boots fits like a glove and are the most comfortable shoes ever made. Those that dont wear boots or dont buy fitted boots, just dont get how good they feel on your feet. I find it very hard to wear any other kind of footwear. So you dont like boots, then dont wear them, but dont make fun of those that do love them!
And a side note, I have been wearing the same pair of boots for almost 30 years, try getting that kind of wear out of any other shoe.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)but I happen to think cowboy boots look silly with suits because they are work boots. They look hot and uncomfortable to me (but then, I try to avoid wearing any sort of shoes, at least when I'm home); more importantly, they give the impression that the wearer - especially if a politician - is trying to make a statement about being a real Texan or a real cowboy or something. If you wear them just because you like them, go for it, but it's an odd look.
SCUBANOW
(92 posts)Well $300 thirty years ago. Don't know how much they are today.
My point is, dont make stereotype statements based on your bias.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)it's kind of hard not to.
quinnox
(20,600 posts)Not many guys can pull it off, and end up looking silly or goofy.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Faux pas
(14,690 posts)toooo funny!
blogslut
(38,016 posts)I bet he doesn't even carry a cloth handkerchief in his pocket!
Mr. Patterson acting as cowboy fashion police is hilarious. When I see some dumb fuck wearing a pair of shitkickers with a long tie and a business suit, I assume they are only playing cowboy as opposed to actually being one.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)but no criticism for letting innocent man go to death row
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)Repeat, Rick Perry is not gay http://www.juanitajean.com/2014/07/03/rick-perry-is-not-gay-3/
For the thousandth time, Rick Perry is not gay. Not gay. Not at all. Not even kinda. No gayo.
So it was just shocking, shocking I tell you, when Texas Land Commissioner and very sore loser Jerry Patterson indicated that there might be something amiss in Perrys sexual department.
In an article about boots in the Austin American Statesman, Patterson musedJerry Patterson: retired Marine, beloved state official, haberdashery expert.
He also noted boots are good for carrying knives, small guns, unmentionables or a small flask, giving rise to BYIB (bring yours in boot).
Well, apparently you can also carry a sharp stick in your boots. Our governor, Duh Perry, says he quit wearing boots because of his bad back.Tell Rick that boots can be purchased with normal heels, he wrote. I lament the fact that our governor could now pass for a West Coast metrosexual and has embarrassed us all with his sartorial change of direction.
Yikes! Metrosexual. Thats just three alphabet letters away from you know, what Perry is NOT.
Blue Owl
(50,494 posts)n/t
spanone
(135,873 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)"Your shoes. They're full of shit."
Old Texas saying
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)He rolls around on the floor of horse stalls to get that special cowboy mystique and cachet that West Coast metrosexuals just can't duplicate.