/fa/ - Fashion

Is this your boot m8?
I think I found your boot, they fucking stole it.
http://www.redwingheritage.com/boots#&f=&m=/detail/8115-heritage-us/8115-red-wing-heritage-mens-iron-ranger-boot-copper

You wanna go fucking fight em?
Eh?
I'll bring my rune scimmy and adamant plate body.

>>7668952
I actually fucked up on the picture, mine have the black collar thing around the top and are a slightly darker base color I think. Regardless, everyone knows what Iron Rangers look like.

>>7668959
Like I said, I can't bring myself to buy another identical pair. I need something different, but familiar. Something I can grow to love.

I'm grieving, /fa/. Help me cope with pictures of beautiful boots I can buy to fill the hole left by the loss of my best friends.

I can't really recommend you any boots, I've kind of lost mine and stuff, and am pretty poor.
I'm thinking about getting desert mali's in black though, but of course I'm terrified because muh $100+

>>7668962
You wanna go fuck up the cunts who did it anyways?
Sick of people steeling boots around their tip.

>>7669046
It was probably my fault they were lost. I put them in a box and the whole box is gone. I should have packed them in with the personal box I was carrying in the car with me.

Desert mali's are aight, not at all what I'm after, but good luck with your decision buddy.

>>7669054
>Good luck
I've been on the edge for literally 8months.
It's not happening, but I guess thanks anyways.

>It was my fault
Yeah, that's what happened to me.
I even lost something I had $600 in.
Now I'm going to make sure not to pack with anyone else, and just take the valuable stuff in a duffle and throw everything else away.
Not risking it.

>>7669063
8 months? damn homie, in that time you could have probs checked ebay every couple days and snatched a good lightly used pair

>>7669073
I've passed up almost new with just a little bad soles on ebay for $90, oh, and they were Wolverines, another was Iron rangers.

I hunt on there every day, then I find something good, and back out.
;_;

>>7669079
Do what I do for purchases I'm hesitant on. If you go to school/work/ect. and usually get lunch, skip lunch 2 days a week and put a 5 dollar bill in a jar in your car. Sounds dumb but you never notice that shit & you'll have enough to buy any boots you want and not feel bad in 2 months.

>>7668961
>>7668962
iktf op, but with other time weathered friends that I've stupidly lost along the way despite their many years of service.
>;_;

Are you looking specifically for a workboot style? (would you actually use them for manual labour?)
Will post some boots that I like.

>>7669414
same vibergs

>>7669415
shit, sorry, wrong fucking thing
these are the same boot model

>>7669421
no captoe on this one

>>7669414
The vibergs are next to impossible to find, leffot has a few non cap toe pairs, but that's it right now unless you want them in shell.

Personally I like these equally, not quite as sleek, but still much more so than wolverine 1ks

http://oakstreetbootmakers.com/footwear/natural-captoe-trench-boot

How come I never see these types of boots in European shoe shops?
Are they exclusively American, or wut?

>>7669427

>>7669435
More or less, the Vibergs and Oak streets are both basically slightly reshaped WW1 service boots (look up Pershing boots) with no hobnails.

The Wolverine 1Ks are kinda a weird work boot/dress boot hybrid. Personally I'm not a fan of them.

Also Viberg is a Canadian company.

Look at Alden Indy Wingtip boots also.

>>7669448
Indy & wingtip, fuck.

>>7669430
>The vibergs are next to impossible to find, leffot has a few non cap toe pairs, but that's it right now unless you want them in shell.
Yeah, and that 20week wait for them to be made for you, and the expense (which isn't worth it IMO, if the one i've handled in store was anything to go buy).
Viberg are all about that one, singular service boot last.

still, I'm not overly fond of the OSB trench style...
I tried on the chukka trench instore, and really was not that enthused.
Not 500 bucks (intl.shipping for me) enthused.

>>7669456
look at these chubby bastards
not as bulbous as the red wings or even the 1k though

>>7669435
?
Depends on what you mean by "these type of boots".

I'll dump some yurpean and english makes.

>>7669465

>>7669468

>>7669456
Viberg stopped doing made to order a few months ago, as well as answering emails, turning into Alden but smaller. If you can get like 20 people together they SOMETIMES do a group order, style forum just did one iirc.

>>7669471
oh well , looks like I can't find my other yurpeans, so back to NA it is.

OP, if you want some superb work style boots, then look at custom White's - probably the best work boots you can get in the US.

>>7669476
oh wow that's news to me. I hear that the son of the current owner (their CS guy) is an entitled cunt, but they do make good boots though

pic = whites custome semi-dress (i think)

>>7669486
following from this, if the viberg guy is a cunt, at least they make a good boot.
Dayton, that other canadianal company (oft compared to viberg) is run by an incompetent cunt.

I have considered the dayton service boot, but I just go back to the notes I complied from that SF debacle and just can't bring myself to fork over near 600 bucks for them.
Too much risk, the risk of too much hassle. If I lived closer to canadia, perhaps/

>>7669498
more daytons

>>7669505

>>7669513

>>7669518

>>7669519

>>7669521
beckmans are still rw op, but a different toe style (and sole) from the IR's

>>7669525
more osb trench

>>7669529

>>7669535
right, cbf dumping anymore, but I'll just add that I'm gonna go for the day to singapore (or malaysia - depending on how i feel) for the day next week and am strongly thinking about picking up pic related instead of the vibergs,

>>7669542
same boot one year's wear

>>7669546
side comparison with IR's

Hope you find a good replacement for your old boots OP

>>7668952

http://www.whitesboots.com

Or if you want a pair that'll last you the next 20 years check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0DuWaDMAkM

Very tempted to get a pair myself

>>7669560
does the guy in the vid actually say who makes his boots? calles him "adam" and that's about it.

>>7669623
Ah, guess it's "Adam's Boots" durr
website's dead, gotta go to Rakuten to look.
Man those japs just lurve american and english footwear.

>>7669623

The guy he's talking about is Adam Jimenez out of Winona, MN

http://www.custommade.com/by/openroadboots/

why are they so fucking expensive?

If you were looking for an oiled captoe, The LL Bean Katahdins are pretty nice. Leather isn't anything close to redwing quality, but they still look great.

On the other hand, if you were looking for similar, but didn't want a captoe, J Crew has those Beckmans that come in an oiled leather like the Iron Rangers. I hear they are pretty nice, but I'm not /fit/ so the toebox + thick sole just doesn't work on me.

>>7669751
what are?
those custom's by that adam guy?
they're made by hand buy one guy, custom - how much do you expect them to cost?

I'm probably gonna cop this next autumn (no need in the spring/summer really):

Red Wing Chocolate Muleskinner (4590). A darker variety of those you had.

>>7669764
>If you were looking for an oiled captoe, The LL Bean Katahdins are pretty nice. Leather isn't anything close to redwing quality, but they still look great.
With Chippewa you really do get what you pay for.
I mean, they're good and all, but if you want RW's IR's and can afford them, they are much better.
The leather is one thing, but it's a question of their construction which is more important. Chipps have a synthetic insole, RW's heritage line use a traditional leather insole. Synthetic insoles do no last as long as proper, leather insoles and have the tendency to crack over time. Not saying it's gonna happen in a year or two, but if it's a question of longevity, and you want to shell out more, get the IR's.

>>7669797
no, im talking about red wing iron ranger - they cost £200

>>7669889
why does anything cost 300 bucks?
why do trickers stow boots cost £390?

>>7669905
I would say because they're fucking overpriced, but I doubt that that's what you're getting at

>>7669918
why do you consider them overpriced?
with what are you comparing them?

>>7669931
shoes that don't cost that much

>>7669831
Yeah, exactly. That's why I got the LL bean ones though, because the ability to exchange them when they fall apart is pretty valuable and makes them a nice beat er up boot.

>>7669942
like what?
gonna have to be specific or I can't do a comparison

>>7669944
>because the ability to exchange them when they fall apart
I have no idea why they thought that was a good idea.>>7669942
>with what are you comparing them?

>>7669942
>shoes
RW's are decently priced compared to other stuff out there m8, considering the other stuff is made in china cheapo junk.
Dunno what you like to buy, but iron rangers are probably lower-mid priced for decent boots.

>>7669942
>>7669918
>>7669751
>>7669889
>poverty stricken citizen detected

IR's are affordablecore, that's why mfa are so apeshit over them like /fa/ used to be. Perhaps you should be over on leddit's frugalmalefashion section if ir's are too fucking expensive for you.

>>7668959
>adamant plate body
pleb u haven't finished dragon slayer?

OP here, I was sleeping and there are far oo many posts to possibly respond to, but thank you everyone. I have so much to look at. It was good to wake up to a thread full of posts to be hopeful about.

>>7669831
I will say though, in reference to this post, I definitely want high quality. I can spend up to $1000 as long as I'm sure they will last me years and years if well taken care of. I have beater boots for yard work, I will be wearing these and not babying them but definitely taking care of them in terms of leather-care to ensure they age well and last a long, long time.

I'm not interested in any wimpy boots. My budget is at least $1000, so I'm fine with almost any boot recs.

>>7670309
Do you have a preference for any particular colour? Leather type? (shell cordovan?) General style? Dressier or more workboot? (captoe? no captoe? brogueing? how high of a boot? etc.)
Where are you located?

I would say, that if you're in the US, to look at White's boots carefully, read some reviews, see what custom options are available. They'll take longer than a trip to the store to get, but you can specify exactly what you want.

There's other small, niche custom makers out there that will fill out and perhaps exceed your budget (like that custom Adam guy some anon linked) but Whites appear to be very well regarded, and I am trying to assess them further myself. (depending on build options say 500 or so bucks seems to be the median price for their semi-dress model)

>>7670586
I'm not worried too much about the leather type as long as it looks good and is sturdy. I prefer darker browns(>>7669465 was a good color), for general style I'd like something along the lines of the Iron Rangers in the OP, but I want something different enough that I won't constantly compare them to my old favorites, pref no brogue, captoe is fine, height I'd prefer at least a decent way above ankle but nothing work boot-y.

I'll check out the place you mentioned.

Alden Indy Boots, nig.

>>7671340
Never really liked the shape of those. Not sure why..