So it's been a grey, gloomy week in ol' NYC, and today it has rained off and on all day. Weather like this, despite the incredibly nasty humidity, makes me think of Fall, bar-none my favorite season (probably because of all the clothing possibilities). And whenever I think of Fall, I think of boots. Every year I tell myself my boot wardrobe is complete, and every year I find myself wanting a different kind of boot than one I already own. This year it's stompy black boots in a calf-length. I own only two pairs of short boots and neither of them are flat, so that's my goal for this year--to get a boot that is either entirely flat or has a small enough and broad enough heel height that I don't feel like I'm walking on a heel.
Ever since I saw The Brothers Bloom, I have been obsessed with the logger boots that Rachel Weisz wears in the film:
The closest thing I had found were the Frye 8G loggers:
But then, cruising around the John Fluevog website, I happened to see the Wyatt and it wins big:
Still, nothing can compare to the actual boot I want, which is Vivienne Westwood's flat soled black pirate boot with the natural leather buckles.
The boots are able to be worn in all kinds of different ways, owing to the flexibility of the buckles (they can be taken off, etc...). Queen Michelle of the glorious Kingdom of Style blog wore hers rather ingeniously folded over as ankle boots:
Basically: I want, I want. Do not have the nearly $600 the fuckers cost. Oh well. Every year without fail I lust after the pirate boots and every year I manage to somehow continue living. I imagine this year will be the same. However, if by the time I have graduated from my Masters program I am still pirate boot-less, those things *will* be my graduation present to myself. You heard it here first.
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