I must be the odd duck then, because I just don't like the ones with the buttons. (To be clear, it's something about the color and shape of the boots themselves, not the button detailing, that I dislike.) I like the others much better.

Then again, my brown-boot purchase this year was Blunnies*, so maybe I'm not the one to ask!

*Technically, not actual Blundstones but these (http://www.rossiboots.com.au/catalogue/catalogue_details.asp?prodID=70) similarly styled boots from Rossi, which are still made in Australia. Funny how no one there really wants to sell Blunnies any more now that the firm has moved their manufacturing to Thailand. /sarcasm, if it wasn't obvious