Tecovas Branches Out from Cowboy Boots, Introduces First Slip-On

Bring to mind cowboy boots, a minimum of this present day, and a couple of manufacturers are evoked: the classics, like Lucchese and Rios of Mercedes, and the rookies, like Tecovas, which used to be based in 2014 through Texas-based boot lover Paul Hedrick. He grew to become his appreciation of the way right into a a hit direct-to-consumer trade recent off promoting its 1,000,000th pair in 2021. Obviously they are his corporate’s bread and butter. It made greater than $100 million promoting them remaining yr, and Tecovas’s ascension presentations no signal of plateauing any time quickly. They grew greater than 80 p.c year-over-year, an build up brought on through the logo’s enlargement into equipment, attire, baggage and Ranch Put on (what it calls paintings boots).

The place you’ll want to as soon as simplest in finding western boots, you’ll be able to now store denims and henleys, pearl snap shirts and wallets, and, now, for the primary time, some other shoes taste: slip-on footwear. The Monterrey is Tecovas’s first strive at footwear shorter than ankle-height, leading to a silhouette that is someplace between a idler and a slipper. (Suppose: Viberg’s Slipper crossed with Astorflex’s Patnoflex.)

And even if they don’t seem to be boots, they do nonetheless slip on, making them as simple to take off as they’re to place on. They are additionally made consistent with the similar requirements the boots are, which means that each and every pair is built in León, Mexico the usage of a Blake sew (when the outsole is stitched to the insole the usage of a series sew), stuffed with a padded insole and completed with a hybrid leather-rubber tread. The to be had diversifications — Butterscotch Bovine and Honey Suede, fabrics with tremendously other seems to be however equivalent sturdiness — each have rounded feet and 1-inch stacked leather-based heels. For all that, their $165 ticket is beautiful honest. Plus, at some point, you’ll be able to ship them again to be resoled, a procedure that simplest prices $150 extra. Blake stitched footwear can simplest be resoled such a lot of instances, even though, for the reason that cobbler will wish to draw new holes each and every time.