Friday, January 6, 2012

'60s Girl With Boots That Were Made For Walking

 

This blog was posted and written by Noemi A. Gonzalez, freshman at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications, ASU /Intern at AZ Foothills Magazine / Team Mentor at NGC /Writer for State Press Magazine 


Nancy Sinatra sings about love and betrayal. At least that's what I think she's singing about in her song "These Boots". Nonetheless, Nancy Sinatra mirrors an era Steffany Arzate, Goergetown University freshman studying at the School of Foreign Service in D.C., should had been born in.

She can tell you everything about The Beatles, JFK (whom she is almost in love with), Bob Dylan and John Hughe's Ferris Bueller's Day Off (I like to think that she is a proud owner of a "Save Ferris" T-shirt...that I gave her for Christmas!).

With her eclectic shirt, Fossie purse and denim skinny-jeans, she portrays the girl with a culturally cognizant attitude that is ready to take on the world -- by walking all over it with her boots, that is.

"I just love my boots so much I just can't part with them," she said.

Her boots were originally priced at $200, but she bought them for a good $50 at Dillards.

Steffany said, "I remember my dad didn't want me to buy them because they were so expensive, but my mom said sometimes you just need to splurge."

Steffany is a non-profit advocate and wishes to promote educational and health rights to the most undermined group in many underdeveloped and conservative countries:  women.

"I've gone to Guatemala in them. I've hiked mountains in these boots," she said. "I just love them!"

She got new boots for $30 recently -- "if anyone cares," she said in her sassy tone" -- but she's unsure about them because she loves her Guatemalan-mountain-climbing boots.














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