Tony Lama

I don’t know how many of you have heard of Tony Lama, the shoes and boots designer who started his enterprise in 1911, in El Paso, Texas. This surely explains the cowboy look of his footwear, but the added elegance and modernity makes them a good choice for a wide category of clients, both men and women. For the sake of shoe history, Tony Lama’s parents immigrated from Italy to US, where little Tony was born in 1887. He was passionate about shoes since childhood. At the age of 11 he worked as an apprentice at a shoemaker in Syracuse, and this is how he got to learn the secrets of the shoes manufacturing and leather processing trade. In the beginning, he was focused mostly on repairing shoes and boots, but later on, after he served in the army at the Cavalry, he started making Western boots. He became famous among ranchers and cowboys who were in big demand for custom made boots, and convinced by the quality offered by Tony Lama, they became regular customers. In the first year of his business, Tony Lama and his apprentice manufactured a total of 20 pairs of boots. Since then, the shoe making business evolved to the impressive figure of 750 pairs of boots per day, which they started to produce in 1961, after expanding their operation which several new operation sites and bigger headquarters.

Tony Lama Boots

The Tony Lama boots are famous for their quality and for the big variety of styles. Each and every boot is manufactured through a long process which takes about 100 steps, done by skillful and well-trained craftsmen, and using only top grade leather.
Each Tony Lama boot comprises special features such as a shank, a heavy gauge double ribbed steel band that supports the arch. Due to this innovative approach to comfort and quality, we can say that Tony Lama Boots are amongst the world’s most comfortable footwear.

Some of my favorite boots ever are the VF6001 Ladies’ Tony Lama Tan Thoroughbred, which offer great quality and an amazing design, at only $180 a pair. The model at the upper edge of the boots looks so beautiful that I cannot take my eyes of them, making people laugh at me in the street.