What boots it to repeat?

[nineveh_uk]

(Cross-posted to stylishly_yours)

A year on from this post, and I still don’t have any brown boots.

So it is time to seize the day by the scruff of its neck, and buy some boots.

So do I buy the boots I liked last year and still like with the buttons*, or the boots in really lovely burnished tan with buckles?

[Poll #1477923]

I'll aim to keep them for at least five years. Hmm. Does that answer the question?

*Available locally for £150, not £185, or there would be no contest!

Comments

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

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

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I do think that the buckles are a more classic shape - the heel on the buttons is just a smidgen bigger than would be ideal, I think. But I find this minor defect is balanced by the buttons...

I like your choice of boots - I don't tend to go for clunky things, but I still admire them as objects, if you see what I mean.

[anthrokeight.livejournal.com]

I like the buttons on the one pair much better than buckles, but I much prefer the color on the buckled boots by a long shot.

This would be hard to decide!

I can't wait to hear which you choose.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

It is absolutely agony! But I am off to London tomorrow, and I hope that John Lewis will haev both in stock to enable me to make a direct comparison.