The Perfect Pair
If you want to feel like Texas royalty, get fitted for custom boots at M.L. Leddy’s. Like a king or queen on a throne, you kick back in an engraved leather chair in the back of the Fort Worth shop while Raz —he prefers his first name only—focuses on your feet. In his cowboy hat and well-oiled ostrich-skin boots, the 18-year veteran of the shop’s Stockyards location wraps measuring tape around the instep, the heel, and the ball of the foot with steadied precision.
“One of the first things I try to get people to do is come in and look around,” Raz explains against a backdrop of shelves stacked with hundreds of boots—all varied in
