Thursday, March 01, 2001

Alpha Male: B

Boots: I don't spend a lot of money on clothing. I just don't. I've never been a label-hound, and it irks me to pay more than $40 for damn near anything: jeans, dress trousers, shirts, sweaters. But I will eat egg noodles for a month and pay hundreds of dollars for a nice pair of boots. That said, it's not as though I'm the Imelda Marcos of the cowboy set. Right now, I own only four pair: some solid brown leather shit-kickers I bought in Nashville almost a decade ago, some slick Tony Lama snakeskins, a pair of dressy black leathers and the practically-mandatory Timberland hikers.