I cannot help thinking that your worthy Texan friends, in their understandable zeal over our native footwear, omitted to put you in full possession of the facts. Permit me a gentle clarification: cowboys do not, technically, rope goats. They rope calves. Your friends allude, I believe, to what we in the Lone Star state call “children,” for goats are what future cowboys practice on when they are toddlers.

The boots themselves are called merely “ropers.” The term “goat roper” is, alas, an unflattering Texican euphemism describing a cross between a redneck and a yokel.

Yours in Prada,
Twisty