Dear Manolo: Country Kicks

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MY BOYFRIEND INVITED me to spend Thanksgiving with his family in rural Kentucky. This is my first meeting with his "kinfolk," and while I know he is exaggerating when he describes their country ways, I'm still worried. What should I wear?

Manolo says, The Manolo is sorry, but whenever he hears the words "kinfolk" and "Kentucky," he thinks of the movie entitled "Next of Kin," in which Bill Paxton, Liam Neeson and the late Patrick Swayze play three hillbilly brothers from deepest Appalachia. (Even the Manolo, whose English is not so good, could tell that everybody was faking the accent.)

In any event, the Manolo takes away two important lessons about rural Kentucky from watching this piece of cinematic flapdoodle.

The first is do not mess with the kinfolks, lest the hillbillies come after you with their antique shotguns, crossbows, bowie knives and rattlesnakes.

The second is always be polite to rural people, or as the great Monday Night Philosopher Hank the Bocephus Williams Jr. says about the country boys, "We say grace and we say ma'am, and if you ain't into that we don't understand."

As for what to wear, the Manolo suggests the Betty T-Strap from Frye ($155, Zappos.com) as being the shoe sturdy enough for the country road and yet not inappropriate for Thanksgiving dinner or church on Sunday.

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