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Ah, I see, so it's important for it to be commission-quality.
tl;dr: glue it with the process I recommended and Barge, Weldwood, or equivalent; if you have time and resources to stitch it down after that, you can. Glue will never be as permanent and nice-looking as stitching, but Barge is significantly superior to any craft glue I've used, so it will probably do the job anyway.
Unfortunately, if you don't have time to custom-commission the boots, I don't think stitching it on is really going to work well (stitching before construction is much, much easier) - and doing a professional-looking job of stitched leather overlay requires special equipment (if machine sewing) and some practice. This is a super well-written book on it, if you're curious. https://www.amazon.com/Art-Leather-Inlay-Overlay-Techniques/dp/0764351214
The special roller foot is absolutely required, and it's easiest to use on an industrial machine (particularly with the matching feed dog and throat plate); however, there are some home machines that have a similar foot (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wplg5DlmsZ8), and a high shank home machine might be able to take the industrial foot (it will fit on the needle bar, but there might not be enough space above it for the hinge on a flip-up model). I recently retrofit my industrial garment machine to set it up for this kind of work, so if you have a suitable industrial, PM me and I can walk you through it.
That said, stitching and gluing aren't mutually exclusive; since leather can't be pinned, most people glue before stitching. If you're planning to stitch it, you don't have to use a glue quite as durable as Barge, but Barge will work just fine.