Leather Library

Denim

A 1970s Western boot staple that never fully went away — these days usually paired with a leather overlay rather than standing alone.

What It Is

Denim had a real moment in Western boots in the 1970s, when Acme Boot Company and a few others built full denim shafts into mainstream boots — a genuinely popular style of the era, not a novelty footnote. It never became a boot-leather replacement the way it briefly looked like it might, but it never fully disappeared either. More recently, Lucchese's Sierra model brought denim back in a different form: a denim base layer set beneath an intricately laser-cut leather overlay, so the denim shows through the cutout pattern rather than standing as the boot's only material.

In Boots

Historically, a full shaft material on its own during the 1970s denim-boot trend. Today, more often a base layer peeking through a decorative cutout or inlay leather panel — a two-material contrast look rather than a denim boot in the old sense.

Care

Spot clean like ordinary denim rather than treating it with leather products. On a boot that pairs denim with a leather overlay, care for each material according to its own entry.