Bootmaker
Torres Brothers
Torres Brothers Boot Company is a family bootmaking business in Raymondville, Texas, that brothers Raul and Frank Torres reopened in 1997, continuing work their father, Leopoldo Torres, had started and still consulting with him at the bench. The shop is known for butterfly stitching and white-alligator boots, with customers including King Ranch cowboys, Texas Rangers, and border patrol officers.
History
Torres Brothers Boot Company is a family bootmaking business in Raymondville, Texas. Texas Monthly's June 2002 roundup of top bootmakers reports that in 1997 brothers Raul and Frank Torres reopened the shop originally run by their father, Leopoldo Torres, who continued to consult for them.
The shop's specialties included butterfly stitching and white-alligator boots, with prices starting at $200 and a turnaround of six to seven weeks. Customers named there — King Ranch cowboys, Texas Rangers, and border patrolmen — describe the article's sense of its clientele rather than documented individual pairs.
The father's original opening year for the shop was not given in the source and is not supplied here. The business is distinct from two other Raymondville shops named in the same article, Armando's Boot Company and El Vaquero.
Known for
Butterfly stitching; white-alligator boots