BF2S Forums Fashion talk thread

SuperJail Warden wrote:

The first black boot Jay posted looked like it belonged to a SS Lieutenant. And I don't mean that in a negative way.

They're Red Wing Iron Rangers

There's probably some irony in manly-men showing off their jumbo collection of leather footwear when women's shoe closets are the object of so much mockery and derision due to cost and quantity.

Boots with swappable liners are nice. Pack dry spares along with socks in case they get wet for whatever reason.

The color of the first pair of boots is called Copper Rough and Tough

Rockports are incredibly comfortable and hard-wearing.
Best shoes I've ever had, as comfortable as trainers and actually lighter.



Please criticise my style choices, I don't care.

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2020-05-23 17:16:11)

uziq wrote:

if they’re made well and are comfortable then good for you.

What happened to you?

I double checked to make sure those aren't exactly the shoes I wear to work (they're not).

Jay's boot collection is like

In the defense of water resistant or waterproof solutions they are usually better than marinating your feet in street slush. You can always swap to a normal pair of shoes out of a gym bag once you get to where you need to go and don't have to rough it through a bunch of disgusting wet.

Locally at least, probably no one is going to look twice if you hop out of your car in a pair of Caribous to refill your gas near one of the actually open passes in the Cascade Range winter.

Right, I have water tight shoes as well. But I still keep the caribous because in addition to the good slush/snow functionality, they have the swappable liner. You can do cool things like wash or replace them. Very warm and comfy looking like a suburban Inuit sometimes.

I can't imagine why a boot (let alone a collection of) would be clung to as a statement of masculinity though. You'd figure a true John Wayne type would blush at the very notion.

people who dress in outdoorswear and heavy-duty workwear when they live pampered white-collar suburban office lives seem to me to be having more of a 'masculinity crisis' than any urban metrosexual who likes fancy ties and well-trimmed nails.

I don't know about the rest of the world but "masculinity" in America is a marketing term or commodity more than anything else. A lot of men think that the products they buy makes them more manly: whiskey, bacon, guns etc.

A lot of men who buy into this are probably secret gays. I don't give a damn about impressing other men. I rather talk latte art with a hipster girl than grill bacon with the boys.

I rather listen to a girl's coming of age story brainstorming than go camping with the guys

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

My grandfather was an athlete and a World War 2 veteran who appreciated things like ties and well-trimmed nails. I think I'll take his word over the advice of slovenly internet cowboys or masculinity advice from quora and howto.

I judge people on having untrimmed nails. It's pure laziness to have long fingernails as a guy.