that the son had more interest in his money than in his daughter ( or for that matter women in general ) became apparent soon enough , and the old man regretted it but lived off his fortune and was glad his name was no longer associated with the place that came to sell what he considered frippery , and he opened a new store named retners in cowtown that sold just boots , jeans , shirts hats , and tack , and all it promised was high quality merchandise at a fair price , and so he had a hobby and still did well while buffingtons flitted and dashed across the radar from this trendy style to that one , with his daughter increasingly forced out of the decision-making by buffington and his flighty buyers .