Lipstick Red Cowboy Boots.

I've got a fondness--okay, a weakness--for cowboy boots. Red ones, at that.

Twenty years ago, I bought a used pair straight out of a window in a second hand store in Seattle's funky Capitol Hill neighborhood.

It was a Cinderella story: the boot fit, much to the snotty shopgirl's suprise. This would-be cowgirl then galloped back east with her prize, wearing and resoling the boots many times.

Now, I've got to break in my own fire engine red pair of Luchese: http://www.zappos.com/lucchese-n4525-5-4 for my trip to New Mexico.

Boots, not diamonds, are this girl's best friend.