Cowboy boots have been depicted continually throughout cultural history since the 1860s. Since then, an evolving American culture has shaped what cowboy boots represent, as has our own perception of what they mean within the culture. The perception of cowboy boots has changed since the 1860s, within the limits and boundaries of a specific culture. Therefore, I consider how patterns and rituals of rodeo participation/competition have been associated with cowboy boot wearing? How does this consumption generate an ideology? Rituals and patterns in rodeos can be associated with cowboy boots in the process of understanding that they have a similar relationship within modern culture. Both are no longer needed as a means of subsistence (e.g. cowboy boots for riding, which were a major source of transportation, and rodeos as a form of income or work), but both still remain influential in today's culture. How can a product of past culture remain so influential throughout today's culture? To analyze cowboy boots in popular culture, I will first examine them through cultural theorists Raymond Williams and F. R. Leavis. At a basic level, cowboy boots in culture can be broken down into the specifics of why we still consume them and how cowboy boots have changed since the 1860s. This can be examined against Leavist cultural theories based on the 1930s. Leavis believes that mass culture maintains only the thinnest and most perishable parts of the tradition of the past. It is therefore believed that it loses part of its ancient value within the given culture (26). The quality of the work worsened, QD Leavis (Leavist's Wife) proposed an "addiction to fiction" (24). This dependence is shown regarding how... middle of the paper... Story with Woody). We experience what rodeos might have been like through modern rodeo practices, based on documentation and the structures of the feeling represented. All this is governed in compliance, according to Williams, with a contemporary class interest. Class interest dictates what rodeos and cowboy boots represent in popular culture. Rodeos express the American virtues of optimism and establish fun-loving competition. Cowboy boots have become a casual comfort for the wearer and have undergone modifications to fit modern culture. Rodeo rituals and patterns have come to reflect specific meanings and values ​​within the culture and created a strong American ideology. Work Cited Roper or 'Walking' Boot. 2010. Photography. WikipediaWeb. February 11th 2014..