Boot Manufacturer
Miron Crosby
Miron Crosby is a Dallas fashion-western boot house founded by sisters Lizzie Means Duplantis and Sarah Means, members of a fifth-generation ranching family near Marfa, Texas. The brand opened its first studio in Dallas's Highland Park Village in 2017, with later studios in Aspen and Houston, and its boots are hand-lasted in Texas by Rios of Mercedes, run by the sisters' own cousins.
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History
Miron Crosby is a Dallas, Texas western fashion boot house founded by sisters Lizzie Means Duplantis and Sarah Means, members of a fifth-generation ranch family from near Marfa and Valentine, Texas (sources differ on which town to credit — Forbes and TCU Magazine say Marfa, Garden & Gun says Valentine). The name combines "Miron," a play on their great-grandfather Marion Otis Means, and "Crosby," taken from a ranch pasture and a SoHo street.
The brand opened its first studio, a 490-square-foot space in Dallas's Highland Park Village, on 20 June 2017, according to PR Newswire. The boots are hand-lasted in Texas by Rios of Mercedes, described in that release as cousins of the Means sisters; the first collection ran 15 designs across 169 pairs, and Garden & Gun reports that an uncle and cousins own the Rios workshop.
Texas Monthly (December 2019) covered the Highland Park Village shop's inlay and appliqué work and a Prabal Gurung collaboration that fall. The company later opened studios in Aspen (December 2021) and Houston's Lamar-River Oaks area (November 2023); TCU Magazine reports more than 30 staff by 2024, and Forbes (21 October 2024) counts three studios, in Dallas, Houston, and Aspen.
Known for
Fashion-western boots hand-lasted by Rios of Mercedes