Cowboy Boot Basketball Sneakers Are Everything You Never Knew You Needed
Jeremy Scott’s cowboy boot sneaker hybrids for adidas. (Photo: Courtesy)
A few years ago, as Jeremy Scott gifted the world with the hybrid shoe no one ever wanted or needed: a cowboy boot sneaker. In a collaboration with adidas, the designer who has made pants embellished with teddy bears, butterfly winged track jackets, and Windex-shaped phone cases, actually sold shoes to “get you rodeo-ready.”
When the style made its grand debut in 2012, the $300 Jeremy Scott Mega Soft Cell Boot was mercilessly mocked on the Internet. Who’s really in the market for cowboy boot sneakers? Or boot sneakers in general? Even daring street style stars who live by the mantra “I’ll try anything once” wouldn’t dare slip on a pair. Broncos also bucked the trend.
Tony Lama basketball sneakers in the wild. (Photo: reddit)
But now, lest anyone’s forgotten this momentous piece fashion history, it seems there’s been a change of heart amongst the gaucho demographic. Tony Lama Boots, headquartered in Southwest Texas and “the world’s most legendary western boot brand” since 1911, has knocked off Scott’s design.
Spotted by someone somewhere and posted to the Internet, the photographic evidence shows the boots in the wild — and on sale for $199.99. What a bargain! Interestingly, according to reddit user C-Basstian, the shoes are called Tenniboots and they’ve been around for a long time, making Scott the copycat. “I have only seen one guy wearing them. A 300lbs teamster truck driver in the break room at my previous work about a decade ago.”
Imitation might be the sincerest form of flattery — just maybe not in this case.
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