Ethnography

Ethnography

September 28, 2014

Boot Barn

It was a cloudy day on September 22, 2014 my friend Cameron and I decided to go to the mall and look at boots at boot barn.  We walk into the store and notice there aren’t a lot of people in the store. As we started to look at their hats. I show Cameron the hat I want to get sometime in the near future. The hat is a chocolate brown color with a square top and a nice crease on it. She says it’s a nice hat but would rather have a white or tan hat instead. We continued looking around and found some nice western long sleeve shirts. The one I like the most was a pink shirt with a white stripe design on it. They had other shirts I liked to there was a blue one and a purple shirt I wouldn’t mind buying. The shirts were a little expensive for my taste. I have noticed that this store and another western store I go to marks their shirts a little too high for me. The shirt was $60 which isn’t horrible but I don’t want to pay that much for a shirt.
We then decided to go look at boots because we are both wanting a new pair.  She started trying on boots that were pretty nice. The first pair she tried on was really nice they were a dark brown boot with a brown top with a turquoise pin stripe down both sides. The boots were square toes which are really good looking boots. They had a kind feather design on the tops which looked really cool. The sole of the boot was rubber and the heel was rubber too. The next pair of boots Cameron tried on were nice too. They were light brown on the bottom of the boot and a really nice light blue with a white pin stripe down both sides. They also had a feather design, rubber sole and rubber heal. The next pair of boots she pick were a little different but still nice. The boots were completely brown with a crazy line designs on them. The sole was wood and the heal was wood, between the heal and the sole there was a chain which just adds style. The last pair Cameron tried on were beautiful they were tan. There was a really cute flower design and the toe of the boot and went all the way up to the top of the boots. The sole and heal were both wood and had a little square toe on them. After she tried those on she decided to see what boots I liked.
I looked at a bunch of different boots. But there were these one pair of boots that caught my eye. These were the ugliest and dumbest boots I have ever seen. They were brown square toe boots that had really stupid stuff on them. The toe of the boot had rubber strips on the tops with these ugly lime green lines. Then the tops of the boots had lime green lines go up the sides and had a squishy top. The boots were $300 I have never seen a boot cost that much and be so ugly. The second pair of boots I saw I really liked. The boots were square toed and had a light brown bottom. The sole was wood and so was the heal but the bottom piece of the heal was rubber. The tops were really nice they had western feather design which looked really nice and the tops were a greyish blue that was really pretty. The other pair of boots I liked were black square toes with a wood bottom and wood heal. The tops were black also and had the same type of design the brown pair of boots had which looked really classy on the black.
Cameron and I both decided not to get boots that day but I did end up buying a new belt buckle before leaving. The belt buckle is silver with a gold outline, it has a picture of a man kneeling at the cross with his horse right behind him that also is gold. Above and below the picture there are 3 stars and beside them are gold feather designs in four corners around the picture. On the rim of the buckle there are four flowers in gold. The belt buckle is really nice and was really cheap for all the craftsmen ship that went into it.

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