2 Best Shopping in West Texas and the Panhandle, Texas

It takes cobblers Colt Miller and Logan Caldbeck four days to make a single pair of their superhip, square-toe, lace-up, South Highland leather boots—which, by the way, come with a 10-month-long waiting list. According to Colt, the 1940s-inspired, Western-flavor boots look better the longer you kick up dust in them. So sashay over to the store that sits catty-corner from Marfa Ballroom, take off your shoes, get measured, pull out your wallet, and think about how great it will be to open a box from Cobra Rock when it finally arrives. In the meantime, watch the artisans at work and buy one of the T-shirts, screen printed by—wait for it—Miller and Caldbeck.

This downtown gallery hawks an eclectic array of artsy wares, many of them designed in the owners' distinctive art space a few blocks away, a converted church with an orange neon horseshoe out front. Proprietors Buck Johnston and Camp Bosworth live in the rectory, where Camp carves zany objects like enormous tequila bottles, guns, and boom boxes from reclaimed wood. His wife, Buck, runs the downtown gallery, which features Camp's work as well as that of other local, regional, and global artists.