Black boots?

[GMan]

I wear combat boots or Doc Martens rather often, look great.

[GatorUK]

Got some sketchers low rise boots I wear casually. Have gotten years of wear out of em. Bit cooler in the summer that the combat boots.

[Streetcar]

I wear my duty boots - 8" Danner Strikers. Although I'm contemplating replacing them with Danner Acadias. You might look at Magnum duty boots - similar style, but a little less expensive.

[Silverlake_Punk]

Rocky - I've been wanting something like Docs, but haven't jumped since I've had two very bad Doc Marten experiences in the past (i.e., boots fell apart after a few months) So yeah, I'm interested in gettin' me them Grinders. How are they in the summer heat? Would you characterize them as being fairly light for leather boots, or on the heavy side?

[Alan H]

"Troopers"

They're black combat/police boot knockoffs made in china. They're actually OK, though it took a while to break them in. I got mine at a local surplus store

The *really* cheap, mostly cordura "jungle combat" boots made in China are utter trash. I bought a pair for $15 off of ebay when I first thought I might wear a casual kilt. They sell locally for about $22. Junk. I wore through the soles in three months of once-a-week wearing.

[Thistle Stop]

My husband, Alan, loves his Doc Marten boots:



They seem to be very comfortable and long-wearing.
I think they look good, too.

[Dreadbelly]

What a nice looking fellow. Great outfit. The ideal model of the casual kilt wearing gentleman.

Thanks!

[Thistle Stop]

What a nice looking fellow. Great outfit. The ideal model of the casual kilt wearing gentleman.

Thanks!

Thanks! I'll tell him you said so -- he'll be very pleased. It's a recent photo, from May. We'd just been to lunch with my mother and I wanted to try out my new camera so I had him pose for me outside the restaurant. I didn't like the parking lot in the background though, so I stuck a Scottish loch in there in its place!

This is the way Alan dresses a lot of the time -- kilt, Docs, dark hose, Buzz Kidder sporran, and some sort of T-shirt, sweater, etc. depending on the season.

[Dreadbelly]

Well, he looks suitable enough to be placed anywhere, parking lot or a loch. It's style like that that will force the door open for the kilt to be accepted as a day to day garmet.

I on the other hand, look like I belong on some battlefield sacking some small helpless English village (No offense meant) or in a fantasy novel as a stereotypical dwarf. I have become aware that on me, the kilt almost looks costume-like. That's ok though, next person that says something will have his or her village sacked and looted.

[Ded N. Buried]

Sketchers have lousy arch support and bad stitching in my experience. You get what you pay for.

I can kinda see the arch support, however thats not an issue for me, and as far as the stitching, I've been sporting mine for about two years. They have been everywhere from the office, to a ditch, to the mosh pit, and nothing wrong with them that a polishing can't fix. Just my exsperiance, mind you.

thanx...Ded N. Buried