Marquez Boots

Marquez Boots is a western-wear store on Strong Avenue in the Argentine neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas, selling boots, hats, jeans and shirts, and offering hat shaping and boot cleaning in-house.

Description

Marquez Boots occupies a storefront at 3005 Strong Avenue in Argentine, the historically Mexican-American railroad neighborhood in the southern half of Kansas City, Kansas. Argentine grew up around the Santa Fe railyards and the smelter that gave the neighborhood its name, and its commercial strip along Strong Avenue and Metropolitan Avenue has been the western anchor of Wyandotte County’s Latino retail corridor for a century. Marquez Boots is a straightforward example of what that corridor sells: everyday and occasion western wear, for a customer base that wears it as clothing rather than costume.

The store’s own description of itself is explicit about the occasion market it serves — quinceañeras, bailes, and general western dress — alongside work boots for customers who need them for the job.¹ Its stock ranges from plain work boots up to exotic-leather dress boots in alligator, python, ostrich and stingray.¹ The store also performs hat shaping and boot cleaning on site, services that distinguish a real western-wear store from a general shoe retailer and that give the shop a repeat-visit relationship with its customers.¹

The business ships nationally; its Instagram account advertises “envios a todo Estados Unidos” and is the primary channel through which new stock is shown.² Public-facing communication is predominantly in Spanish.

Ownership and history

The store’s own website states it has been “proudly serving our community since 2006,” giving a founding year of 2006 and, as of 2026, twenty years of continuous operation on the Argentine strip.¹

The owner’s name has not been established. No press coverage, chamber listing, or state filing naming an owner or the Marquez family behind the name was located during research. “

A second Kansas City, Kansas location trading under the closely related name “Marquez’s Boots” appears in third-party directory listings at 908 N 18th St (66102), on the Central Avenue side of the city. Whether that is a second store under the same ownership, a related family business, or an unrelated operation with a similar name has not been confirmed from any first-party source. “

What they sell

Confirmed from the store’s own website:¹

• Western boots — work boots through exotic leathers (alligator, python, ostrich, stingray)
• Hats
• Men’s shirts
• Jeans and western accessories
• Services: hat shaping, boot cleaning
• Nationwide shipping

Links

• Website: https://www.marquezboots.shop/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marquezbootsoficial/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarquezBootsOficial/

Sources

Footnotes

1. Marquez Boots official website (about, hours, address, product categories). URL ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

2. Marquez Boots (@marquezbootsoficial), Instagram. Active account; most recent post observed 2026-08-05. URL ↩