How To Wear Pink Cowboy Boots
[ 14 June 2008 ]
“I recently bought a pair of bright pink cowboy boots (on complete impulse!) and haven’t worn them yet. I know they’re gonna be big and I’ve seen them start to creep onto the high street, so I want to look like I’m really ahead of the trends. But I have no ideas what to wear them with! Could you give me some help?”
The absolute best thing about a pair of hot pink cowboy boots is that it proves you have a sense of humour. I mean, how could you not? As soon as you put them on, it’s pretty much proof that you have a personality. A pair of pink cowboy boots are not for the shy. They are not shrinking violet territory. They are loud & fabulous & they shout, “HERE I AM!” While you could dress them down, I think this would do them an injustice. I think the best thing is to use them as a platform to step it up a notch.
Having a pair of coloured cowboy boots can be limiting, but that doesn’t mean you can’t rock them to glorious effect. I once owned a pair of duck-egg blue cowboy boots. I saw them in a shop window, fell in love & wore them to death. (Proof: 1, 2, 3.) Some people didn’t like them, but they made me obscenely happy, so I wore them & loved them until the very end. I still miss them!
A good pair of cowboy boots is a very versatile item. It doesn’t have to be all jeans & down-on-the-ranch-wear! I have had an amazing amount of use from the cowboy boots I own at the moment. They are black & brown, have taken a total beating (I wore them at Burning Man) & still beg for more! I’ve worn them with a bedshirt, shorts & red lipstick, a vintage nightgown & a faux-fur coat, a sundress & yellow bow belt & the same outfit, winter-ified.
Having said all this, here are some outfits I whipped up with the help of Polyvore, based around hot pink cowboy boots.
Perfect for a trip to the playground, a bit of cupcake munching & a ferocious game of air hockey.
More conservative cowboy-boot-ism, but it still speaks loudly. Your boots say, “Here I am!”, your shirt says, “I have taste!” & your sunglasses say, “Science fair geek!”. Mixed messages? Why yes. But isn’t it more fun that way?
The ideal brunch outfit. Just don’t spill maple syrup on your shirt.
Perfect for a little antique shopping, followed by a cup of frozen yoghurt the size of your head. You might also feel the urge to just sit on a bench & look delicious — & of course, you should go right ahead & do that!
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OH I want pink cowboy boots. So. So. Bad. I picked up an awesome pair of tan/gold ones for $10 last year and am counting the days til I fly home and get to wear them!!
Thankyou so much for writing this, Gala! I’m pleased I bought them now :) But really, reduced from £120 to £20, it seemed rude not to!
Definitely not for the faint hearted…or shy! I’d wear them only I wouldn’t want to draw attention to my bow-legs. Hmmm? Perhaps it’s all attitude?
wow, really love this piece you wrote, gala, it’s awesome! great advice, as always. kisses!
Well, NOW I have to find myself some cowboy boots!
What perfect timing!
Yay!
I’m trying to plan some outfits for the bright and shiny chapter of my life (college!), and I had NO CLUE what to wear with my metallic bronze/gold cowboy boots.
I love these outfits here! They’re so adorable! Especially the brunch outfit and the antique shopping outfit!
Now I have the urge to get some in a wild pastel colour! :3
outfit number three is delicious!
i have the EXACT pair you used from polyvor!!
but alas because i ONLY use them to ride my horse(you really wouldn’t want me to wear them out and about now they smell awful!!) i only ever wear them with dark skinny jeans, what ever plain shirt i decide i wanna throw on, and my pink riding helmet, pink riding gloves and pink riding crop!!
and yea im the hottest cowboy out there!!
Have you been playa stalking me and my PINK cowboy boots?
Guess I’ll have to change colors now.
Next you’ll be sporting a Pink Pirate TuTu.
So cute!
I have the pink skirt in purple, I wore it a few days ago actually.
And I love the Mui Mui dress for the antique outfit, I’ve been dreaming about it for months (but I can’t afford it obviously!)
Those boots are cool but sadly I’m too short for cowboy boots, they’d cut my legs in half and make me look even shorter… :(
I never thought I’d like cowboy boots, especially pink ones, but now I see the charm. J’adore!
I REALLY want to get pink cowboy boots now :P
mdesignboutique.blogspot.com/2…
I just wrote a blog entry in response to this post and the comments! Its a picture of a cute girl I met at a Sample Sale in Los Angeles a couple of years ago. She was wearing Pink Cowboy Boots and looked awesome…She fell in love with my Hot Pink Rock and Roll Boa I was selling and I just had to take a picture!
mdesignboutique.blogspot.com in case the other link doesn’t make it in this comment…
Cowboy Boots = Love it!
There’s a little girl in one of my Music & Movement classes who has these boots. And man, does she ever rock them! I’m inspired each time I see her. I’m thinking baby-chick yellow cowboy boots might be right up my alley…
Oh, I am in love with colored boots! My school is switching to uniforms next year and since the seniors get to wear their own shoes, I’m looking into a nice pair of bright boots. Those pink and black ones from Polyvore are amazing! Oh, and I love your blueish ones, Gala! Amazing :)
I love the brunch outfit! I had brunch today, it was yummy. If I owned pink cowboy boots I would have worn them there, but I don’t, so I didn’t..
Here in Livingston MT we wear our cowboy boots w/ everything, but they are especially seen w/ tight Wrangler jeans and a tank top or 2.
i have a dress that looks sort of like the first one left over from my goth days! i got it at goodwill on sale, but i haven’t worn it in over three years…looks like i should get some cowboy boots…but i want TEAL! :D
while not exactly the same, I have a pair of teal doc martens, and I wear them with everything. ridiculously bright boots make everything better.
i don’t own cowboy boots (yet. but i’m working on it!), but I’d have to say my favorite thing to pair them with is denim cutoffs. Grab a shirt and some sweet sunglasses and you’re good to go.
I love your blue boots too. (Pink is not really my thing.) This cracked me up:
“i am aware they are not “cool” but guess what, I AM BEYOND FASHION!!”
Yeah, you go! :D
I believe that cowboy boots have become quite trendy where I live, but I have never seen people wear them with an evening dress…I quite like that.
I love your blog, Camille from Childhood Flames emailed me about you. I just started my own fashion blog (something I have meant to do for too long now!) and I thought I’d take your advice and let everyone know about it! :))
I’ve been looking for pink cowboy boots FOR AGES~! i wish i could afford those. o_O
Awww! I always dream of my (FAR! in the future) daughter wearing a tutu and pink cowboy boots. Love~Love!!
I actually have a pair of pink boots that I’ve had for years but I never knew what to wear with them! Perhaps I should dig around in my wardrobe and find them :)
An article on how to wear cowboy boots…this is amazing timing for me! I just bought my first pair this past Tuesday at an antique booth out in the middle of nowhere. They’re black with blue stars and I love them but have yet to plan an outfit around them. Thanks for the inspiration!
hmmm… where does one find pink cowboy boots like that, for a realistic price? they’re so spectacular, my heart actually skipped a beat :b
posts like this make me sad to be a lowly backpacker living out of a rucksack… fashion choices so limited- i do have a fabulous pair of black vintage leather cowboy boots though, not so much of a hot pink shoe kind of a girl myself but the polyvore outfit ideas are wonderful- especially the black dress in the last set- too fab!
Gala, my exceptionally stylish half-sister owned exactement the same mint green cowboy boots as you did!
Amazing! I run a webstore that sells only pink items and you’ve just convinced me, a long time cowboy boot despiser, that I NEED a pair of hot pink cowboy boots. Ahh, the powers of the Gala Darling persuasion…
I adore the dress in the first outfit, and agree that it would look absolutely fantabulous with cowboy boots. But I’m a bit taken aback by all the black in your choices – what happened to colour?! I don’t mean to be a spoilsport here but I do think that pink (or indeed any bright colour) with black looks a bit, well, cheap. I understand wanting to let those amazing pink cowboy boots take centre stage, but in that case I think other neutrals like brown, grey, beige and cream/white would be better choices. (Personally, though, I’d probably throw the neutrals out of the window altogether and go for yet more colour!)
Yuuumyum. I really want a pair of cowboy boots – in any colour! I love them and have never owned a pair. Unfortunately my family doesn’t have much money, so theres no way that I could afford to buy some. But I can imagine outfits I would wear!
I love your duck egg blue cowboy boots, they look lovely with the green dress thing :D.
And my favourite out of those outfits is the second one, though I’d probably change the black skirt to navy shorts and add in a pair of lime green fishnets if it were me :P
Gala, im so glad youve given up spelling of ‘ov’!
I say wear them with anything except for an evening dress, hehee
I wish I could wear boots and jeans together, but there never seems to be enough room in the boot to stuff the jean material into!!! And skinny jeans don’t really fit me properly, so I guess I’m hopeless. Maybe I’ll just stick with leggings or tights.
I’m with eliza- shoes can be painted! I’ve never tried a solid color, but I assume if you sand down leather boots and don’t mind imperfection or upkeep, they should be fine. I’d go for acrylics, or spray paint made for graffiti- hundreds of juicy colors!
This reminds me of an article I read on college fashion recently – you guys even used the same picture of cowboy boots! Anyway its here: www.collegefashion.net/fashion
I’ve been lusting after the perfect non existent pair of colored cowboy boots for years, how about a post on where to find some? Anyone?
i used to really love cowboys, i had 4 pairs. 1 brown, 1 brown with hearts, 1 black, & 1 purple. but they now live in the back of my closet because i feel like the cowboy boot trend a few years back really killed my love for them. RIP cowboy boots.
Wow I would never have come up with all those wonderful ways to style pink cowboy boots! Who woulda thunk?
What fantabulous outfits! I have a bright red pair of Fluevog cowboys and I always dress them down … clearly a mistake. I’m inspired, as usual.
P.S. Took the opp to trumpet my admiration here last week: alreadypretty.blogspot.com/200…
I love your old light blue boots. Fab!
I looooooooooove cowboy boots. Gala, your robin’s-egg pair are uuuuuuuunbelievable! I have two fairly traditional vintage brown & cream pairs – but I have dreamt of getting a wild-colored pair someday!
I love using cowboy boots in my Polyvore sets, and even won a contest on Naughty Secretary Club with one.
Gala, a year ago you inspired me to buy a pair of black cowboy boots I found at Value Village. I wore them to death for months, & then eventually had to replace them (from a vintage store in New York!). I still wear them almost every day & LOVE them – they’ve become my signature, & the trend is spreading around my school quite quickly.
So, yeah, basically I loved this article :D
After reading this article i remembered a pair of boots on irregular choice that i must have!
www.irregularchoicestore.co.uk…
now for the shipping….
try wearing them with a dark green dress or a brown dress!
ooomg a brown dress should look amaziin!
I love the 1st 3 of the outfits best, i think i could only pull of the 3rd one though, i dont think i would look right with the 1st one and 2nd one
First off,
I am in love with those pink boots!!
props to you for finding them and buying them!
Okay, well the thing about unique and fantabulous items like these is to make the outfit with it. You can be wearing the simplest outfit, wear those boots, and you will get the right attention.
try, a pair of dark skinny jeans, a cute t-shirt, one thats original, like a band shirt, or a shirt that says somehtign funny, with maybe a cute sweater over it, or jacket, and then the boots, and your set.
Add pieces of flair, something different, liek the boots and you’ll be rockin! I always look for pieces liek these, something no one else will have, something new and different.
I have bright yellow patten leather sneakers and i love them!!!
no one else has um, and i feel uber cool when I wear them.
I want those boots!
Peace and Love,
i want a pair of cowboy boots in pink just like the ones at the top and i would also like some in red