Hot Trend for fall 09 Riding Boots

One of the biggest trends this fall is the tall riding boot. Your probably wondering where you can get a pair at a reasonable price. Believe it or not Goodwill has them on occasion so always check there. You can get a pair for $6.99 which is really cheap. Normally a good leather pair are gonna run you about $125.00, and make sure they are your size and that the leg part fits your calf, not snuggly but pretty close, you should barely be able to tuck your jeans into them, if they are gappy at all get a smaller calf size, since the gappy look, looks terrible. Also make sure the hieght of the boot comes up to the back of your knee Thats the proper length.

You can order boots from any riding catalog that caters to English or Hunt seat riders, you'll be able to pick foot size as well as calf size and length. If you find a boot that laces up the front of the ankle thats called a field boot, you might not like that kind of boot, your going to want the slip on type.

Be sure to purchase a boot tree, this is a forked piece of wood that you place the heel of one foot into the fork and step on the opposite end with your other foot and then you pull your foot up to release the boot from your foot otherwise you will need a helper to get your boot off. Wear good socks with your boots, anything over the ankle is good. Good sockes will protect your feet from blisters. You will need to wear your boots often to get them to have that lived in feel. The more leather is worn the softer and suplier it gets and it molds to your feet and leg. Also purchase boot trees to put into your boots when your not wearing them, if you don't want to purchase a set then take the sunday paper and roll it up lengthwise and put duck tape around it. Now you have your own set of boot trees for free. The newspaper will also help absorb moisture from when you wear them, this will keep them from getting smelly.

Have fun wearing your boots. Take excellant care of them and they will last you forever.

Whats the WORST outfit or look you have ever seen?

Tell me your horror stories, yes I want to read them. Heres mine, summer 08 two girls bigger then me walk into Walmart (sounds like a bad joke so far) wearing wife-beater tanks, and leggings and flip flops, no bras and their hair was a mess. This image is still BURNED into my retnas.

Another worst look (sorry guys your gonna all hate me for this) slippers with pajamas when you go out shopping. I absolutly hate this. Come on have pride in yourself and get dressed please! And NO I have NEVER EVER done this. My grandmother and my mother always said if you can't bother to get dressed then you don't need to go. Wise words.

Whats your favorite store to shop at?

So tell me What is your favorite shopping place? Me I have several. J C Penny, Boston Store, Kohls, Fashion Bug, Torrid (my favorite of all) Hot Topic, and many others. As I've been wandering the stores this fall theres been a lot of great looking stuff and a few things that are "What were they thinking" items. Even Walmart has had a few good pieces. Walmart is even going to be carrying Norma Kamali dresses this fall. For those of you who don't know the NK line is usually only at Nordstroms and Macy's so I think its cool we can get some really great high fashion pieces at "Walmart". Just one thing though the smaller Walmarts like the one I shop at the most don't have these dresses, need to go to the bigger ones. I am disappointed by some of the fabrics Walmart has had I find the t-shirt material thats being used right now is too thin, Come on, us big girls don't what see through cloths, personally I've been layering alot more because of the thin material. The layering looks good and with the thin material I don't get over heated when working.

I've also been making over some of my cloths, this summer I got a great shirt from Penny's that because of the sleeves parting up the middle (its 3/4 length sleeves are split up the middle and they fall open) I didn't wear it for a while (I have big fat chuncky sausage arms). I came up with the idea of adding grommets to the sleeves and threading thin ribbon in a cris cross pattern up the sleeve and tying a bow. Well I couldn't find the right size grommets so had to do some more thinking. One morning I woke up and thought safety pins. So I used mid-sized safety pins up the sleeves and then put them around the neckline of the shirt, the pins give it a gothic "Hot Topic" kinda edge and I've gotten alot of compliments on it, even from women older then me they think its neat idea. ( will post a photo later).