Boot Manufacturer
LaGrange Leather
Lannie Bryant began in leather in the early 1970s and opened Lagrange Leather in the early 1980s. He and Babs Bryant added a house boot label in the mid-1990s after selling at equestrian events. Bristol, Virginia, is the retail face. Earlier official pages for named western styles stated handcrafted in León, Mexico.
Why collectors care
LaGrange Leather is a family western and equestrian boot house with a Bristol, Virginia retail face and, on documented western styles, León, Mexico making. Collectors need pair-level country of origin, not a single hometown story.
This page is a manufacturing company card: factory-direct retail over production, not a one-bench Austin-style custom shop.
Company history
Company About says Lannie Bryant taught himself leatherwork in the early 1970s, sold key chains door to door, and worked West Virginia arts fairs. His first storefront, Moontan Leather, lasted about ten years. In the early 1980s he opened Lagrange Leather as hip western leatherwear and later operated six more stores for more than twenty years. The About page says he was voted among the top five Entrepreneur of the Year honorees by Ernst & Young of West Virginia in 1987 (the page prints “Ernest & Young”).
Wife Babs Bryant designed from age twelve, earned a nursing degree from the University of Charleston, and by 1993 was selling fashion-forward goods at equestrian events as a traveling boutique. Lannie proposed a house boot label after seeing riders remove uncomfortable boots at day’s end. The trademark label started with five styles.
Discover Bristol describes a historic-downtown Bristol storefront, factory-direct pricing, and handmade boots from a long-operating factory. LinkedIn listings have also used State Road, North Carolina, as a headquarters with a Bristol office.
Known for
Family western and equestrian factory-direct boots; León-made western styles on earlier official pages