I have a discrimination complaint or rant, what ever you wish to call it.

Last week my wife and I observed a nice looking young lady wearing shorts and cowboy boots. Not seductive but she did look nice, in a class sort of way.

Both my wife and I agreed.

Now its been hot lately and I've taken to wearing shorts. But because of the weeds and stickers around my place I kept my boots, they are work style cowboy boots but are in fairly good shape for as old as they are, plus except for an old pair of tennis shoes, I don't own any shoes, just a couple pair of boots, one summer, one winter.

OK so the wife decides its too hot to cook and says she wants to go to town to eat, No problem I says, just let me pull on my boots.

Nope she isn't going anywhere with me wearing shorts and boots................why.

Why is it ok for girls to wear boots with shorts and not men. My legs are old, but not that bad for being 66 years old, a little white maybe but not that bad.

It's pure discrimination.

If I can wear shorts and sandal's to hear a sermon, you sure ought to be able to wear shorts and boots to eat at KFC. Quite honestly, you'd probably draw quite a crowd!

I personally don't wear short britches all that often...But when I do, I'm wearing my boots and hat!!!


Su Amigo,
Dave

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Sir, you just answered your own question.

I do what I do, you do what you do.
Sure, I may think you look odd, silly or the like - and I'm sure the reverse is true.
Unless you're thin, cute, 17-25, you DO look a bit odd. Or should I say, you're just not worth looking at. LOL

See, I can be sexist too.

I haven't had a pair of long pants on since about the first of March. I kinda subscribe to the theory, ifn you don't like the way I look don't look...

Kraigwy, listen to your wife!

'Nuff said.

The restaurant don't care, they'll take your money no matter how you look.
Not sure I've got the guts to do it though.

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[QUOTE=keith44spl;137343572]I personally don't wear short britches all that often...But when I do, I'm wearing my boots and hat!!!


Su Amigo,
Dave[/QUOTE

Oh man I just got a mental picture that's sure to cause me a loss of sleep! LOL

This is a little hard to describe, but try and picture this.
It was a Sunday in the summer time and hotter than the hubs of hell.

We had put up one of them plastic swimmin' pools out in the yard for the kids and it looked plumb cool and inviting. So I decided to put on a swimmin' suit and go set in that pool for a bit.
Now bein' out in the sun a fair amount of the time, I'm tanned below the hat/hair line, pale as a ghost under my long sleeved shirts and Levi's. I din't put my hat on when I went out in the yard.

Like some others here, I don't own no shoes and bein' plumb tender footed I couldn't move a foot bare footed. So I put my boots back on.
So, when I come out of the house. I'm pink on top, dark face and neck, pale body and arms, dark hands, purentee pale white scrawny laigs and cowboy boots.
Well there was four horses tied up at the hitch rail out by the back gate of the yard.

I come out of the door and them horses took a gander at me and the four of them jerked the hitch rail plumb outta the ground and took off lookin' like Charleton Heston's chariot team with no chariot.
By the time I got dressed and got them horses rounded back up, it was plumb dark and cooled off.

That there was my only experience with wearin' shorts of any kind other than skivvies in the house .

This incident described is not a fashion statement. It is a confession to an egregious fashion offense. I'm siding with your wife, as are all right-thinking people...

Round these parts it ain't at all uncommon to see a guy in a pair of shorts with his White's work boots on, I've seen some of those guys at the beach in their work boots. Once your feet become accustomed to that arch its preferable to walking barefoot. I've always thought it looked funny to see a guy with his boot tops outside his boots, often referred to "Montana Style" that way he has somewhere to put the sheep's hind legs. My wife has been getting a good laugh out of the feller on Swamp People from Northern Lousiana in his shorts and western boots, I tell her its not worse than her wearing sandles with socks....somethings just don't jive and sandles with socks is one of them. I can forgive a guy wearing his western boots and shorts, a guy has to cool off somehow and once your feet become accustomed to a certain footgear that just all there is. I started wearing western boots when I was a kid in Utah, seemed nearly everybody was wearing western boots even though very few spent any time near a horse. I was always kind of intrigued by the fact that many quality boots had beautiful upper leather stitching and many some very attractive designs and yet they were always worn with the jeans over the tops, heels of boots cutting the back end of the jeans.

I have legs so white that if I go outside in shorts everybody in Vegas thinks they have started atmospheric testing again up at Mercury. Mind you, even if tanned shorts and cowboy boots on a guy does not conjure up a good picture for me. Yes, it's a double standard but...

I'm gonna get dressed up tomorrow. We're headed out to town to drop off the truck. Wife's gonna follow me in her dinky little car and we're gonna go out to eat. I'll have my 5.11 6" tactical boots, Dollar General cargo shorts and a dark blue Fruit of the Loom tanktop that's not all threadbear and holey.

All I ask is that you don't post any pics of yourself !!!

Don

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If when you wear shorts, people especially younger women and children, run away screaming the Horror!! the Horror!! You might have a condition, known as old man’s legs.

If the veins in your legs look like large blue polyurethane ropes, you might have a condition known as old man’s legs.

Most men past a certain age should have to have a permit to wear shots with or without boots.

Most elderly women over a certain weight should have to have a license to wear tight shorts and a low cut blouse.

Men should have to have a license to wear those European style skimpy and tight swim trunks, and women over 60 and/or over 250 pounds should have to have a license to wear a tight bikini.

Some things are just too scary to be displayed in public.

We were up at Cheyenne Frontier Days last summer and there were all these folks wearing shorts and cowboy boots. I made fun of the guys as "wannabe" cowboys, but my daughter pointed out that the girls looked pretty good that way. I had to admit she was right. No idea how to officially explain it, but it makes guys look stupid and girls look sexy.


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Maybe it was the over-the-knee socks that ruined the look and not so much the boots.

Cheyenne Frontier Days is the only time I don't wear a cowboy hat and boots.
I don't want to be mistaken for a tourist...

When I was a kid in the early 50s I never seen a man wear shorts except maybe in the movies or books some english dude on a safari. I remember maybe back in 1952 seeing a fat old guy come into a store in our village wearing shorts. I was sitting there with a couple of tough kids and one gave a cat call, Hey, junior! You couldnt get me to wear them up untill about 8 years ago. Now I wear them all summer. I have about 6 or 8 cowboy hats and that many pair of boots and dont wear them at all anymore because I wear shorts. Now my feet have spread from wearing tennis shoes and mocassins that I cant hardly get the boots on. Not going to give them away either. I do wear pants rideing on the quad but thats about it.

Don't own a pair of cowboy boots--my feet and spine are really messed up and it would be agonizing. But I wear shorts from mid-spring to mid-fall. At almost 76 my legs are skinny but not that bad, with no varicose veins. I really don't give a damn what people think--a perk of being old.
I don't wear sandals and black socks, just New Balance sneakers. Don't tuck in my shirt, and don't wear the shorts halfway to my armpits--I ain't built that way.

I just remember what a friend of mine said years ago: he thought of wearing shorts as his revenge on society.

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Oh well, what the hell.

You know if I didn't live so close to Seattle I'd say who cares how you look. However, in Seattle, naked is fine in some establishments

De Oppresso Liber

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Wells, ya can take the ol boy outta the country....But, ya can't take the counrty outta the boy,

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My son sent me a photograph years ago when he was in collage.

As the story went, a gaggle of 'em was enjoyin a few barley pops and chute doggin a sum steers
and son thought it didn't look like much of a chore.

Picture show him doggin & throwin a steer in short pants and flip-flops.

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So, I guess it ain't always the clothes that makes the man.....

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I'm KIDDING!

I haven't owned a pair of shorts in at least 15 years. I just don't look good in them. If I were wearing Khaki or tan shorts, I wouldn't think it looked bad with work boots, just military. The socks should come close to the knees. A lot of it depends on your body type and your appearance. Not everybody looks good in everything.

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Wow! You guys are totally missing the boat on this.
She obviously has an irrational fear of some 50 year old hottie making a play for her stud muffin.

Did I really say that?

I'd say the problem lies in either the choice of boots or shorts ...

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I'm with the banned ...

It's how it is here where I live in Florida I see both guys and girls wearing shorts and cowboy boots. I did see a guy wear cut off shorts and combat boots and a cowboy hat. I guess some ladies think they are the only ones who need to dress like that and not their men.

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Shoot like a pro!

I finally gave in to the heat a few years ago and wear shorts in hot weather,but cowboy boots?! You're a braver man than me :-0

My eyes! My eyes!

Never used to wear shorts until a few years ago. I decided that if the Tommies in the British Eighth Army carrying Lee-Enfields could wear them and defeat Rommel--they were manly enough for the likes of me...

As to cowboy boots--my feet said to knock that stuff off some time back.

Ladies with nice legs look grrrreat in jean shorts and cowboy boots.
A guy in short and boots? The Village People come to mind.
Best be careful about the message you are sending.

Well my wife tried for years to get me to wear shorts. Never would. I finally realized how HOT the Wranglers were in 90 degree heat Now days the shorts can go on as early as March sometimes, and stay on until November. Boots are Hot as well so it is hiking shoes or sneakers. I don't own a pair of dress shoes and haven't in over forty years. I will wear western boots if called upon, but then I don't own a suit either. I never tuck a shirt in, not since I can remember, and could care less what anyone thinks. The day I retired I threw my watch away as well.

Uggghh...sorry, but I just can't go along with that at all! I don't own a pair of shorts and probably haven't for a good forty years....maybe more. It can be 110 outside and I'll still be wearing my Wranglers and boots. I do make one small concession, however....I wear a straw hat instead of felt.

On the other hand...if you can get away with it, more power to you. In the memorable words of Rudyard Kipling, "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!"

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Pack light and cinch tight.

Probably don'twant to see you with your top off either...

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I don't really care for the shorts and boots look on females...especially not those boots that look like snow boots, worn with shorts and a halter top, and it's 90+ outside.

On men, no way!

I don't ever wear shorts in public...not with sandals or tennis shoes...not at all, period. I wear them around the house all the time, but if I'm going anywhere that I have to get out of the car, I put on pants. Why? Well, I have to wear compression hose, since I've had issues with blood clots in my lower legs; these hose are black, and they look like knee high stockings. Women's knee high stockings...not men's over the calf socks. No way am I going to be seen in public with those showing!

My wife thinks I am being silly...but round these parts, a man wearing shorts with knee high stockings could get beaten up! No matter what footwear he was wearing...but boots would make it even more likely.

Haven't owned a pair of shorts since I was maybe ten. My son can probably get away with that and might wear shorts at home while working on cars or feeding a horse, but he wears jeans or slacks in public. He does wear boots, either cowboy ones or, more often, combat boots that he's favored since his days in Iraq.

His wife has impressive legs, but she, too, usually favors jeans over shorts. My daughter turns men's heads whatever she wears, too, but women just dress differently, with cause. Trim young women look great in shorts, but I usually prefer them in sandals to boots.

Somewhere on the Net, there's a photo of three hotties wearing shorts and cowboy boots at a rattlesnake roundup. They're cute, but "country." Like Daisy Duke!

I'm fortunate enough to live pretty close to SMU and Dallas is sort of a fashion center, too. I see a lot of cute chicks in shorts, most in sandals. Some just throw on a tee shirt or beach coverup and shop in bikinis, and some Highland Park wives shop in tennis dresses. Very scenic.

As for restaurants, some have dress codes that I hope preclude people who shouldn't wear shorts making public eyesores of themselves. What's okay at a fast food place might not be at a more formal restaurant. The eyesore people do sometimes invade malls and grocery stores. I see them in Target, and I'm sure that Wal-Mart is as bad or worse. 200 pound women don't look good in anything, let alone shorts and halter tops. There is a place for the muu-muu, and this is it.

I wear normal shirts (some short-sleeved) in summer and slacks like khaki or olive Dockers. I wear casual shoes like Timberlands that are sort of fancier boat shoes with better arch support. I have boots, but only hunting boots with Vibram soles that I sometimes also wear on snowy days, for warmth and traction. The current ones are from L.L. Bean, but I think they're Herman Survivors marked for Bean's. Certainly very similar, and of really good quality. If I get any more boots, they'll be Danners. I very much liked a pair I had. I have an old pair of Russell's Birdshooters with Vibram soles. But I don't really think a moccasin-styled boot gives enough ankle support in rocky country. And the raised toe seams get scuffed in brush. Also, mine got wet and my ex-wife threw them in a car trunk without telling me. They got a lot of surface cracks, although oiled.

Cowboy boots are bad for your feet, so I don't own any. But I will look at girls in boots and Daisy Duke shorts. IF that girl looks good in that combination.

I'm still trim and my legs are good for a man. But even Tarzan would look kinda silly in boots and shorts. Do you think you look better than Tarzan? Now, Jane...

Shorts make my butt look big

I wouldn't be caught dead wearing boots and shorts. But then the only place I wear shorts in public is the gym. I wouldn't wear a full brim hat and shorts either. A ball cap, yes, but not a hat.

And women wearing boots and shorts, or boots and short skirts look silly.

Boots should be worn with long pants. With the pants over the boot tops.

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The wife just might think you in shorts and cowboy boots make you look like you are riding a chicken.
Glen

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Summer boots are those white rubber deck boots. We call them "Venice Louisiana dancin' shoes". (Caj will understand this).
Deep sand and riding heels don't work well. Tony Lamas play hell on teak decks on a multi million dollar sportfish boat(but that never stopped George Straight from wearin his on his own rig)
I have seen "topsider" soles on a pair of Luchesse once, but that was in Palm Beach...
Orange Beach Alabama is where I've seen the most shorts and boots (not bein worn by gals, I mean)

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Where are the moderators when you need them?

That's deeply strange. I like it.

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Oh well, what the hell.

After I retired from my pipefitter job I got bored and as I had a CDL I got a job delivering building supplies around most of NYS. For the most part I made mostly home deliveries and spent a lot of time driving. I asked the owner if shorts were ok and he said yes. Up till me coming aboard drivers, builders and dock workers all wore long pants; right afterwards about ½ of the crew was wearing shorts.
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So for about 4 months a year I made my deliveries wearing cargo shorts (all those pockets make stashing a small carry gun easy) and a pair of high top steel toed boots.

After work while I never went out to a fancy place dressed like that if we were going grocery shopping or hitting a quickie joint for dinner that was my attire. I was 60 at the time with a set of super hairy legs and a full beard that Grizzly Adams would have been proud of!

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I have no problem with shorts and boots at the KFC if you go through the drive up window. It looks great on kids up to the age of 10 or 12, by then they should have more sense.
Many think cowboy boots are bad for your feet but I have known more than a few lineman who climbed poles in them and liked the arch support.

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You can get away wearing shorts (cargo) and hikeing shoes or boots and a eastern type hat but a cowboy hat, cowboy boots and shorts is a big no-no.
Somewhere I actualy have a 20 year old picture dressed exactly like that. We had a retirement party for a guy on my department and a gal putting it together asked me to dress stupid and do something. I wore shorts, a strap t-shirt, cowboy boots and hat and a western rig with a silver plated engraved colt clone. Around here you occasionaly see a different type cowboy hat. I dont know the proper term but I call em "mormon hats". They are very wide brimmed with a low crown.

Actually, the real term for that particular style is a "buckaroo hat" or an "ash tray crease."

They are the popular style in the "buckaroo states," i.e. Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, and Northern California...but you're right...they are starting to catch on in Utah. Nevertheless, I still wouldn't wear one with shorts and boots.

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I fail to see what is wrong with this..............

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Kraig,

you've probably been married long enough to know that when mama says NO, further discussion is pointless.

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My standard summer wardrobe is t-shirt and cargo/BDU shorts with sandals (no socks) or boat shoes. I'll upgrade to a collared shirt for church and khakis if I'm have to help serve communion. Other than that, the only time I wear long pants and boots is when I'm going out on the road with the bike. Come about October, the cowboy boots & the Wranglers come out of the closet for regular wear.

Oh, and BTW, I think indecently short cut-offs and cowboy boots on good-looking girls is a hot combination.

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