New store features cowboy boots
There’s a new boot store at the Mosaic District.
Tecovas offers handmade leather cowboy boots and other Western gear, such as belts, hats, bags, and jeans. The boots are made of calfskin, suede, lizard, ostrich, alligator, or crocodile.
The store is located at 2905 District Ave. It’s open Monday-Thursday 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Friday and Saturday 10 a.m.-8 p.m., and Sunday 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
The Tecovas company started as a direct-to-consumer retailer in 2015 and opened its first brick-and-mortar store in 2019 in Austin, Texas. The Tecovas store in Mosaic is the first one in Virginia.
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Lizard, ostrich, alligator, crocodile? Great. Hope it goes out of business quickly!
I agree with you.
Thank you for sharing information on this new Cowboy boots retailer in our community.
I understand many are viscerally opposed, in fact, disgusted, that products made from animals (especially clothing products) are still permitted by a modern society.
While I understand this view, I recall from a young age liking well-made cowboy boots. It’s a real conflict which I find hard to reconcile.
As a side note, I remember not too many years ago visiting a place called Gatorland in Orlando, FL, where they serve “gator nuggets” (made from actual alligator flesh) to eat.
I felt repulsed by the idea of eating alligator; and even though my companion encouraged me to try one gator nugget, including by telling me it “tastes like chicken”, I politely refused. Several times.
The experience of visiting Gatorland led me to realize alligators are not an endangered species.
So while killing a certain amount of alligators to make a limited number of expensive Cowboy boots, or for a alligator refuge where alligators are raised to kill a certain number of alligators to sell “gator nuggets” to financially keep the refuge in operation, does not threaten the continued existence of alligators, it is a legitimate question whether a modern Western society should continue to allow such behavior.