Kemo Sabe

This is a great place. You pretty much get to custom design your own hat, shape cut and all. Staff is amazing and they have a fridge full of beer you can access while you work with the team. Go here at all costs.

Went there yesterday and was surprised by the friendliness is the staff. We ended up with two pair of boots. Lucchese and Rios Mercedes.
Selection is not large but they were so nice and helpful… we love the boots we found, one pair calf, one pair ostrich, nice!

I was in their new store in Vegas about 3 weeks ago and fell in love with a pair of boots on clearance. (Clearance price was still $ 230, so they weren’t cheap.) Vegas was out of my size. A few days after I got home, I called the Aspen store to see if they had my size and they did! I was ecstatic! They happily shipped them to me. Shipping was $ 30 and they got to me in record time. The sales woman in Aspen was friendly and awesome. I will definitely order from them again.

Lost a glove in Aspen and didn’t want to wear my ski gloves around town. Stopped by Kemo Sabe, they have some awesome deerskin gloves. The insulated ones with the polyester are warm while the normal ones make great dress/​driving gloves. Very nice leather. tanned beautifully and not too expensive either ($ 50 is fair generally, great for Aspen and incredible for Kemo Sabe given they are delivering a first class retail experience as well).
Boots, buckles, etc. are awesome but expensive. If you have the dough, live in a place where cowboy is cool and want to shop while in Aspen, this is your spot. Other Western stores have a good amount of the mid-​range stuff but probably can’t touch them on the high end /​custom boots etc.

We love this store! My Husband went in for a Cowboy hat on New Years Eve and we both left with one each. We also enjoyed the free beers that evening. We met up withthe sales dept. that night at red onion ad had a blast. They had sold a 20k belt buckle to make their night. This was in 2006. We had a blast. We always go back each year.

I ve been shopping there since the early 90 s since they moved from Snowmass. Whether I just browsed and had a beer, or made a major purchase, the well trained staff and service has always been excellent. I show cutting horses, so I m not some gal getting done up for cruising cowboy bars. Top quality boots, belts hats and silver.

Wow! Overpriced pseudo-​western stuff that you’d find on the Western Slope for a fraction of the price, but my issue is with the service. The details matter less than than the fact that the attitude was so bad, it had to be the owners because you would fire any staff member that behaved that way with clientele. Methinks I’ll be happy to steer folks away from there to places with friendly faces.

Kemo Sabe has one of a kind engraved belt buckles, boots, and other western accessories.
I found a beautiful 3“x2″ silver belt buckle and inquired about the price — it was $ 2350. For a belt buckle. Nothing wrong with that, but that’s the kind of price range you are going to get here. Be prepared to drop some serious coin if you are interested in any belts, buckles or boots.
The employees were very helpful and explained the different price points of each type of buckle (and the reasons for the price points). The belt buckles are all individually engraved/​carved and they aren’t mass produced — which accounts for their high prices.
You will find beautiful and unique wares here, but as I said, be ready to open your wallet.

Visited during GSW — Aspen, free Bud Lites! Great western accessories!

I was here 5 years ago & bought a silver buckle and two belts. Since then I’ve been dying to return for one more belt in a darker brown. The two I’ve had have been worn so much! Tonight I entered and asked a salesgirl to help me with my purchase. She was so patient & so helpful. The first brown belt she pulled in my size was $ 900 — whew! I told her my price range was more like $ 200. She never made me feel weird about that — she grabbed several in my price range and told me about the skins, etc. I choose a shark skin belt and it’s perfect. I tried it with a similar buckle as mine and cannot wait to return to SC to wear it. Thank you, Kemo Sabe!!!

If you want to feel like a half-​Aspenite, you can’t leave without your $ 200 Stetson purchase — but don’t stop there, it’s not just the hat, it’s the band that makes the hat! Be prepared to drop some serious coin, but you won’t be disappointed.

Awesome store! I bought a straw hat here last summer and a felt hat this winter.

Well in the spirit of being a good sport, I am upping Kemo Sabe’s rating due to a very nice email I received from the owner. I appreciate that he took the time to read and reply to my review in a very professional manner. As I said, I love the boots I got there so at least now when I wear them I will have more warm fuzzies than I previously did. Happy Trails indeed.

I ask my serious shopper friend where to go for boots — she says KemoSabe. I trek out into the wild, wild west of the Haute Aspen retail scene to find it’s a cowboy boot store. Damn. A cool store for what it is, but I’m not interested. Plus, the selection of ladies boots is small.
A day or so later, I bop back in with friends, who linger. I check out the cowboy hats (not for girls, unless you’re employed on a ranch, farm or… maybe for Carmen Electra in some cheese ball photo shoot), the hat embellishments (sold separately), the belts, the boots, the general cowboy ware — there are talented craftspeople making some good old cowboy stuff. The place is authentic. A real Western type store. (Do I sound too Boston here?)
Anyway, the coolest part of all — I see a guy come in to have his hat adjusted/​steamed to a new shape (interesting) and note the very best, most unique part of the store (hence the write up and four stars) — while he’s waiting, he walks over to the old fridge I thought was a prop, opens it and grabs a himself a free, icy cold beer?! Huh?
A new concept? Anyone? Beers and shopping? Yee haw.