Vacationing in style! Looks great and probably comfortable too!

I've shied away from zippers on boots after my first pair of work boots had them and they caused hot spots and compromised the flexibility and water resistance along the ankle, I have also seen a lot of my coworkers' boots fail pretty catastrophically at the zipper rendering them almost unusable. I'm borderline preachy about the advantages of speed laces on work boots now, at least for my job in EMS. When I worked 24 hour shifts out of a station, I could get speedlace boots on just as quickly and easily as zippers, and I still have my first pair of boots after about 7 years and never had to replace the laces or eyelets. That said, I'm all for it if it helps people with disabilities get into something they may not be able to wear otherwise, and cowboy boots are a great example. The examples you posted look high quality.

@Darren Poesel absolutely, there's no perfect boot for every situation.

The coolest thing I've ever had a barber do was give me his personal phone number so I could get a "speakeasy" haircut at his home with impending Covid shutdowns in early 2020.

I was born in '94, I think a lot of what I remember from my early childhood may have been remnants from earlier times. I remember computers being this weird off-white beige color. My first car was a 1998 Honda Accord in a dark green paint color and the interior was a similar beige/tan color throughout. I remember warmer colored yellowish incandescent lightbulbs and streetlights. The clothing was a lot of bright teal, purple, bright vivid colors. Think old school NBA jerseys, the jazz pattern disposable cups, or modern Baja Blast. I remember furniture as being large, like it took up a whole wall to frame the big CRT television or computer. darker brown wood grain. My dad had a big stereo system that looked cutting edge at the time with a brushed stainless finish, but the massive speakers were a chestnut wood color with black. Inexplicably almost everyone had some sort of glass dolphin decoration in their living room. Wall art was always sort of strange, my parents had a big canvas painting that was reminiscent of a Picasso painting.