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Men in Knee-high-boots ?????
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Thanx, You still own quite a lot, i see.Here you can find last year's collection - but there wese some changes in the meantime as I sold several pairs and got new ones.
As a woman who loves tall boots let me just add two things --
1 - I think it's stylish and sexy when men wear high boots, integrating it into normal attire (not in a Ren Faire way, though that can be sexy too). Cowboy boots are a look most can pull off. Motorcycle boots are great, too. If you want to be adventurous, riding boots, or vintage Fryes with the chunky mid heel (!).
2 - A bit of local style trivia: I recently lived in Ethiopia, where most of Western fashion has been adopted by the urban classes, but one tradition hasn't -- women do NOT wear high boots. That look is reserved for men. Some of them rock the most stylish oversized thick-rubber work boots I've ever seen - knee-highs at least. Others have more fancy, stylish versions like combat boots in their military and police auxiliary uniforms. In the rainy season the men are sloshing about in their boots... and women, in little rubber flats, are totally screwed.
1 - I think it's stylish and sexy when men wear high boots, integrating it into normal attire (not in a Ren Faire way, though that can be sexy too). Cowboy boots are a look most can pull off. Motorcycle boots are great, too. If you want to be adventurous, riding boots, or vintage Fryes with the chunky mid heel (!).
2 - A bit of local style trivia: I recently lived in Ethiopia, where most of Western fashion has been adopted by the urban classes, but one tradition hasn't -- women do NOT wear high boots. That look is reserved for men. Some of them rock the most stylish oversized thick-rubber work boots I've ever seen - knee-highs at least. Others have more fancy, stylish versions like combat boots in their military and police auxiliary uniforms. In the rainy season the men are sloshing about in their boots... and women, in little rubber flats, are totally screwed.
[HI, thanx for reaction, interesting to hear that high boots elsewhere still may be reserved for men.
One remark I don't quite understand, becauase of my lack of knowledge of special English expressions. What do you measn with: "Cowboy boots are a look most can pull off"?
One remark I don't quite understand, becauase of my lack of knowledge of special English expressions. What do you measn with: "Cowboy boots are a look most can pull off"?
Most men look good in cowboy boots -- in many situations. BUT I'm speaking as an American. If you're going to wear tall boots as a man, especially boots with heels, a worn vintage pair of leather cowboy boots is a great bet.
Well, cowboy boots I already wear, and since a year even uncovered, with my jeans put inside. The high boots I now want to start to wear, and have ordered to make, are much higher, reaching a bit over the knees.
This is a great thread! I have several knee-high boots from FRYE and I wear them with skinny jeans so I couldn't tuck the legs in, but I loved the look.
I do have a question about the boots that are made specifically for horse riding that Jinete suggested:
How do these equestrian boots hold up to street wear? Can the sole take a lot of punishment or do they wear down faster because they're made specifically for riding horses?
I do have a question about the boots that are made specifically for horse riding that Jinete suggested:
How do these equestrian boots hold up to street wear? Can the sole take a lot of punishment or do they wear down faster because they're made specifically for riding horses?
Hi Alex,
this is something I do not unterstand: although you wear skinny jeans you cannot tuck the legs in?
Ooops I made a mistake :shame: hahaha, I meant that my jean's legs were too skinny so I couldn't tuck the shaft of the boot under the pants, so I wore them tucked inside the boot.
Thanks for catching that, SwedishChef. I like your blog, too.
Hello, I found this thread and I was very happy. I'm an Italian adult male, I've always liked boots, especially tall boots and overknee, for man and woman, but here, in Italy, boots for man are very few, except the ankle ones. Just sometimes you can find in street shops knee high boots for men that are not sport ones as riding or biker style.
I like to wear boots with jeans tucked into them, now, since last winter, I started to wear also outside home, just sometime before, then more often and, I've to admit, mostly nobody seems to care, especially if you wear them without feeling strange and as normal everyday apparel. So, being more confident, now sometimes I wear, but until now just in the evening, travelling on motorways and stopping in gas stations, and far from home, a pair of overknee boots (with rubber flat heel, biker style) that I find very stylish and fashion, also for a man. I find even that they wear better of knee high boot because leg are slender and jeans do not make not nice creases on knee.
I like to wear boots with jeans tucked into them, now, since last winter, I started to wear also outside home, just sometime before, then more often and, I've to admit, mostly nobody seems to care, especially if you wear them without feeling strange and as normal everyday apparel. So, being more confident, now sometimes I wear, but until now just in the evening, travelling on motorways and stopping in gas stations, and far from home, a pair of overknee boots (with rubber flat heel, biker style) that I find very stylish and fashion, also for a man. I find even that they wear better of knee high boot because leg are slender and jeans do not make not nice creases on knee.
Hello Alex,
Great pic of you in your boots in your profile!
nice to hear from you, and to hear that I am not the only man who likes high boots. Good to hear about your good experience with wearing them in public, and that I am not the only one who had hesitations with doing that atthe start. And that this made you confident enough for the next step, wearing overknee boots. I hope I will get myself sofar to wear mine when they have arrived also in public!
Great pic of you in your boots in your profile!
nice to hear from you, and to hear that I am not the only man who likes high boots. Good to hear about your good experience with wearing them in public, and that I am not the only one who had hesitations with doing that atthe start. And that this made you confident enough for the next step, wearing overknee boots. I hope I will get myself sofar to wear mine when they have arrived also in public!
p.s. Regarding wearing your jeans in your boots, I now say: of course!
There's something very strange about that. When I bought my first cowboyboots as a teenager many years ago, and I automatically wanted to put my jeans inside my cowboyboots, I was told that one shouldn't do that, as only women do wear their trousers inside boots, and perhaps barbarians on the countryside, who are really hunting cows.
Well, as a teenager you obey to fashion. So for decades I did wear my jeans over my boots, without any thinking about it, till I realised: what's that kind of nonsense? If you wear great boots, one should wear them openly and show them to everybody!
The point is that in a modern society fashion is in the first place meant for women and that men are expected to dress in public in a reserved way, not showingly. This means, that if you nevertheless wear something special and unusual, you should more or less hide that to prevent to draw attention. Well, high boots are striking (and meant to strike the eye, I would say), and till they (like a lot of other kind of dress, as leather trousers) were annexed by women, for centuries men did wear them without shame and problems openly. From that moment they were adapted by women they don't anylonger because they don't dare.
Only in situations where there exists a practical argument that can be used as an excuse (horseriding, motorbiking, farmers, building trade workers) they wear still high boots without much hesitation. But only than. Nobody should get the chance to suspect men that they wear high boots because they just find them hot! The same with leather jeans: only a motorbike 'allows' a man to wear them, othwerwise his choice may be easily questioned.
That's the reason that men seldom wear their jeans inside their boots, and more seldom wear very high boots or even overknee boots, in which case putting your jeans inside your boots would be nonsense or even in practice impossible.
One in fact automatically has to ignore this fundamental 'rule' of not showily dressing as a men when you decide to wear overknee boots, as they inevitably make you an eyecatcher. And well, whereas women are praised for being one at a party, men need a lot of courage to become one too.
There's something very strange about that. When I bought my first cowboyboots as a teenager many years ago, and I automatically wanted to put my jeans inside my cowboyboots, I was told that one shouldn't do that, as only women do wear their trousers inside boots, and perhaps barbarians on the countryside, who are really hunting cows.
Well, as a teenager you obey to fashion. So for decades I did wear my jeans over my boots, without any thinking about it, till I realised: what's that kind of nonsense? If you wear great boots, one should wear them openly and show them to everybody!
The point is that in a modern society fashion is in the first place meant for women and that men are expected to dress in public in a reserved way, not showingly. This means, that if you nevertheless wear something special and unusual, you should more or less hide that to prevent to draw attention. Well, high boots are striking (and meant to strike the eye, I would say), and till they (like a lot of other kind of dress, as leather trousers) were annexed by women, for centuries men did wear them without shame and problems openly. From that moment they were adapted by women they don't anylonger because they don't dare.
Only in situations where there exists a practical argument that can be used as an excuse (horseriding, motorbiking, farmers, building trade workers) they wear still high boots without much hesitation. But only than. Nobody should get the chance to suspect men that they wear high boots because they just find them hot! The same with leather jeans: only a motorbike 'allows' a man to wear them, othwerwise his choice may be easily questioned.
That's the reason that men seldom wear their jeans inside their boots, and more seldom wear very high boots or even overknee boots, in which case putting your jeans inside your boots would be nonsense or even in practice impossible.
One in fact automatically has to ignore this fundamental 'rule' of not showily dressing as a men when you decide to wear overknee boots, as they inevitably make you an eyecatcher. And well, whereas women are praised for being one at a party, men need a lot of courage to become one too.
Hi Pirateboots, I totally agree with you: wearing boots or even overknee boots for men is still a taboo in modern world, despite boots have been shoes just for men up to first years of the last century!
I'm trying to wear them, studing about reactions of people, but, as I wrote, it seems me that almost nobody cares: better, they see you but, until now, I had no bad comments or looks, even if I did not wear usually them in crowded places. I bought my first pair 3 years ago, biker style knee high boots from an italian famous brand (I found them casually in a mall, just last pairs of a range that they do not produce anymore and bougth them immediately), during a work travel, and when came back home I showed to my wife that liked them. Then, I started to wear them under jeans, and just sometime out of trousers (never when I am with my wife that seems a little unconfortable). I tried to wear them outside the jeans two times in malls crowded of people, and I have to repeat that almost nobody seemed to notice me. It needs to say that boots were very simply, nice, and tall under the knee, so they were absolutely "normal". Maybe, it happens that we feel not ease wearing them, but most of people doesn't care! Have you ever worried when you,or people near you, have seen a man wearing boots, often they are policemen or similar? I do not think so. Yes, if you wear overknee boots, it is so much different of day life that you sure will be an eyecatcher, but i think it needs just a few years and it will become normal, as it was for women when they began to wear overknee boots. The first were actresses or ... bad girls, now the overknee boots are parts of daylife, even the high heeled: even better, today that look has become fashion you must to wear!
I think also that the border is given by the quality and style of boots: if you (or anyone else, also women) wear a pair of poor quality boots, especially for overknee, they could seem not very fashion and worn just to put them. But if boots are of good quality and nice style, better of a fashion brand, probably you will receive looks just because they are fine and handsome. I hope that boots for men will became more popular, and in Italy I'm reday!
I'm trying to wear them, studing about reactions of people, but, as I wrote, it seems me that almost nobody cares: better, they see you but, until now, I had no bad comments or looks, even if I did not wear usually them in crowded places. I bought my first pair 3 years ago, biker style knee high boots from an italian famous brand (I found them casually in a mall, just last pairs of a range that they do not produce anymore and bougth them immediately), during a work travel, and when came back home I showed to my wife that liked them. Then, I started to wear them under jeans, and just sometime out of trousers (never when I am with my wife that seems a little unconfortable). I tried to wear them outside the jeans two times in malls crowded of people, and I have to repeat that almost nobody seemed to notice me. It needs to say that boots were very simply, nice, and tall under the knee, so they were absolutely "normal". Maybe, it happens that we feel not ease wearing them, but most of people doesn't care! Have you ever worried when you,or people near you, have seen a man wearing boots, often they are policemen or similar? I do not think so. Yes, if you wear overknee boots, it is so much different of day life that you sure will be an eyecatcher, but i think it needs just a few years and it will become normal, as it was for women when they began to wear overknee boots. The first were actresses or ... bad girls, now the overknee boots are parts of daylife, even the high heeled: even better, today that look has become fashion you must to wear!
I think also that the border is given by the quality and style of boots: if you (or anyone else, also women) wear a pair of poor quality boots, especially for overknee, they could seem not very fashion and worn just to put them. But if boots are of good quality and nice style, better of a fashion brand, probably you will receive looks just because they are fine and handsome. I hope that boots for men will became more popular, and in Italy I'm reday!