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Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-MAR-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Q: I BOUGHT A FANCY PAIR OF BRAND-NEW LUCCHESE OILED-CALFSKIN BOOTS A WHITE BACK AND HAVE NOT WORN THEM OUT ON THE TOWN BUT ONE TIME. THEY CAUGHT PEOPLE'S EYES, BUT IT SEEMED LIKE IT WAS ONLY BECAUSE OF THEIR NEWNESS. ALSO, THEY ARE NOT THE MOST COMFORTABLE FOOTWEAR. WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT BREAKING THEM IN?

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A: If experience has taught the Texanist anything, it is that new boots, like really rank broncos or compulsive tobacco addictions, are not easily broken. There are no soapy shortcuts here, no training of monkeys to do it for you. The union of foot and boot is not unlike the union of holy matrimony, and, as in the best marriages, the strongest bonds are forged by time--time spent traveling together, molding to one another, collecting a patina of character-building scraps, nicks, and scratches in strange and foreign lands together. Boots right out of the box are never a...

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