Boots and Shorts-Discrimination

kraigwy · Jul 22, 2013

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.

mtelkhntr · Jul 22, 2013

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!

keith44spl · Jul 22, 2013

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

Su Amigo,
Dave

old bear · Jul 22, 2013

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

My legs are old, but not that bad for being 66 years old, a little white maybe but not that bad.

Sir, you just answered your own question.

Prof_Fate · Jul 22, 2013

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.

Davwingman · Jul 22, 2013

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...

Onomea · Jul 22, 2013

Kraigwy, listen to your wife!

'Nuff said.

diamonback68 · Jul 22, 2013

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.

joeintexas · Jul 22, 2013

keith44spl said:
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

Iggy · Jul 22, 2013

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 .

jkc · Jul 22, 2013

kraigwy said:
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.

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...

Kinman · Jul 22, 2013

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.

LVSteve · Jul 22, 2013

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...

snubbyfan · Jul 22, 2013

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.

woodsltc · Jul 22, 2013

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

Don

finesse_r · Jul 22, 2013

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.

michaelpthompso · Jul 22, 2013

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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2152hq · Jul 22, 2013

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

Iggy · Jul 22, 2013

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...

feralmerril · Jul 22, 2013

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.

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