# What do you think of this men's boot - Ugly or stylish? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 23, 2009, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-mens-boot-ugly-or-stylish/514816 "2009-10-23T02:40:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-mens-boot-ugly-or-stylish/514816/21 "2009-10-23T06:12:53Z")
Hideous, silly looking and radically overpriced. Unclviny ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-mens-boot-ugly-or-stylish/514816/22 "2009-10-23T06:23:09Z")
Are those supposed to be worn with skinny jeans? Because skinny jeans, especially on guys, are an abomination. And the shoes are ugly. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-mens-boot-ugly-or-stylish/514816/23 "2009-10-23T06:23:59Z")
> [@even\_sven](#): > > Looks like something out of a steampunk novel. This. It’s kind of cool, but not at all versatile. You’d either have to use it as part of a costume, or be very clever about what you wear with it for it to work. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-mens-boot-ugly-or-stylish/514816/24 "2009-10-23T06:28:52Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > I would never buy something like that. It looks like something someone in “The Road Warrior” might wear, except for the cheezy “iron cross” symbol, which looks like something a 14 year old sk8er kid who shops at Hot Topic might wear. For the price, I would want a pair of shoes or boots with some class to them, and those aren’t it. > > I really loathe the whole trend of “spend hundreds of dollars for something that looks like it’s worn and weathered.” I’m not against spending a lot of money on quality clothes - but it’s stupid to buy something that’s made to look old and tattered and broken-in. This! A million times this! Perhaps it’s because we are from the same generation, but **Mr. Towers** here took the words and thoughts right out of my mouth and brain. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-mens-boot-ugly-or-stylish/514816/25 "2009-10-23T06:35:13Z")
Screams “midlife crisis” to me. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-mens-boot-ugly-or-stylish/514816/26 "2009-10-23T06:37:04Z")
When I was a teenager in the 80s I might have shed the blood of a goth to get my hands on a pair of these boots. Now, I might shed the blood of someone wearing these boots, just, ya know, because. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-mens-boot-ugly-or-stylish/514816/27 "2009-10-23T06:56:57Z")
**Isamu** is right, and right again. Those boots look like part of a costume, they don’t look like anything that anyone would wear in real life on a regular basis. I can see a teenager wanting and wearing a pair of those boots, but not anyone older than about 19, unless it’s part of a costume. Plus, the very name of it screams “I am ANGSTY!” Come on, Darkstar? Really? We need a puking smiley here. Please feel free to imagine that I’ve used one. ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-mens-boot-ugly-or-stylish/514816/28 "2009-10-23T07:23:06Z")
**Lynn Bodoni** , when I hear “Darkstar” I don’t think angsty- I think Tim Bisley and his oxypheromalkahyde. But they definitely do look costumey. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-mens-boot-ugly-or-stylish/514816/29 "2009-10-23T07:25:12Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > I would never buy something like that. It looks like something someone in “The Road Warrior” might wear, except for the cheezy “iron cross” symbol, which looks like something a 14 year old sk8er kid who shops at Hot Topic might wear. Nitpick, because the Dope wouldn’t be the same without that sort of inane minutia : [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IC1870.jpg) is an iron cross (or, in heraldic terms, a cross pattée). The boots’ crosses are [flourished crosses](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_fleury). Oh, and I wouldn’t be caught dead in them boots. Crappy color (especially for \*black \*boots), way too much squiggly stitchwork, and even LARPers would find the sole dragon tackier than Elton John in Hello Kitty drag. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-mens-boot-ugly-or-stylish/514816/30 "2009-10-23T07:35:04Z")
The design looks like a hybrid of those two crosses - an iron cross, but with flourishes at the end. Some medieval crusaders are spinning in their graves over these hideous boots. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-mens-boot-ugly-or-stylish/514816/31 "2009-10-23T11:46:55Z")
I like them. I wouldn’t _wear_ them (I prefer undecorated shoes for me), but I’d admire them on someone else. But then, I do run in the Goth & Steampunk circles… ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-mens-boot-ugly-or-stylish/514816/32 "2009-10-23T12:10:57Z")
Too much going on. In fact, I hate all of the boots that this [designer](http://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/catalog/templates/P9.jhtml?itemId=cat15650735&parentId=cat13830734&masterId=cat1580734&cmCat=) makes. Who were his foot models? Ogres? Either the toes curl up too much, or they are so flat that I wonder how a normal man could squeeze his toes into them (Palmer boots, Ruin loafer, Gilmour driver). I certainly couldn’t. On the other hand…[these](http://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/catalog/prod.jhtml?itemId=prod86860038&parentId=cat6750735&masterId=cat000550&index=40&cmCat=cat000000cat000470cat000550cat6750735) rock. And what a steal at only $295. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-mens-boot-ugly-or-stylish/514816/33 "2009-10-23T12:23:18Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > Too much going on. In fact, I hate all of the boots that this [designer](http://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/catalog/templates/P9.jhtml?itemId=cat15650735&parentId=cat13830734&masterId=cat1580734&cmCat=) makes. Jebus - are there 3" of extra toe room in every shoe?!? Those _all_ suck! ---
**Author:** ![Neverending\_Elbow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e274bd/32.png) [@Neverending\_Elbow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neverending_Elbow)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-mens-boot-ugly-or-stylish/514816/34 "2009-10-23T12:27:49Z")
It’d look good on Johnny Depp… but so would practically anything else. 🙂 I would like it more if it were a bit smoother at the front, but I’ve seen much uglier. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-mens-boot-ugly-or-stylish/514816/35 "2009-10-23T13:30:51Z")
I think that if you were provisioning your airship in your goggles and beautiful long coat, they’d be fantastic. Otherwise, you’d look like a tool. Also, “Darkstar”? Really? Is that their AOL screen name? ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-mens-boot-ugly-or-stylish/514816/36 "2009-10-23T14:04:16Z")
Wow - I’ve gone through varous boot phases from cowby through Docs, and that is one ugly boot. The only way to wear something like that is if you wish to costume yourself as something I can’t imagine anyone being taken seriously as. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-mens-boot-ugly-or-stylish/514816/37 "2009-10-23T14:04:28Z")
Fugly, and the name is beyond stupid, but if I saw them in a catalog with **Isamu** ’s write-up, I’d totally consider buying them. That write-up is pure awesome and must be rewarded. ---
**Author:** ![kapri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kapri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kapri)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-mens-boot-ugly-or-stylish/514816/38 "2009-10-23T14:18:07Z")
> [@astro](#): > > [Tod’s Darkstar](http://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/catalog/prod.jhtml?itemId=prod91770041&parentId=cat6750735&masterId=cat000550&index=0&cmCat=cat000000cat000470cat000550cat6750735) Hideous, in an ugly sort of way. ---
**Author:** ![Idlewild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@Idlewild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idlewild)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-mens-boot-ugly-or-stylish/514816/39 "2009-10-23T14:19:00Z")
I like them. I find myself thinking the opposite of ‘should be worn with costume’. No, if you’re going to rock those boots, you dress down with them. I think they’d look great with the right pair of jeans and the right shirt. Of course, I’d like them in a women’s size and I’d wear them with a skirt, but that’s my major malfunction. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-mens-boot-ugly-or-stylish/514816/40 "2009-10-23T14:21:53Z")
If a German steampunker skinned a toad to make a boot, it’d look like this. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-mens-boot-ugly-or-stylish/514816.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-mens-boot-ugly-or-stylish/514816.md?page=3)