Thanks everyone for the recent comments and likes.
Thanks, Fed. You've posted up some great hats and shirts yourself. I've been an avid cowboy boot collector for several years collecting vintage and custom made boots. In fact, I joined this site because of the cowboy boot thread. What a mistake. I've sold off some of my lesser worn boots to buy hats and the hat collection is beginning to rival the boot collection if not surpass it. Yesterday's boots are a smooth ostrich made by Jesse Bogle, a Phoenix, AZ bootmaker who retired in 1997 and died in 2003. I'm fortunate enough to have three pairs of his boots.
Thanks! I better not go to the cowboy boot thread...
I picked up a pair of black Lucchese smooth ostrich Ropers from Goodwill a few weeks ago. I really like them. Certainly not a custom fit, but for less than $100 I thought it was a good deal. I've seen them new for $566 at online retailers and Lucchese lists them at $795. I'm so paranoid when I wear them. I don't want to scuff them up or get a cut on them... I normally wear some Ariat square toe boots that scuff just fine, LOL.