A Century’s Worth of Boots Under $500

They say a good pair of boots should last you a decade, which means that ten pairs will last you a century thus giving you purpose! A will to live! So that you can call yourself a centenarian with gumption, pride and really good shoes.

Except…no one has ever truly insinuated that a good pair of boots will last you ten years. In a city like New York, in fact, you’re lucky if they last you a full season. But that’s just it: they should definitely last longer than a season. And maybe they don’t because we’re not paying attention to what we buy — putting too much emphasis on the thing and the trend and the pressure point we’re trying to press now instead of the one we’ll want to keep coming back to later. Not that much later — but later. So instead of the plebeian, “Here are 100 boots under $100,” or the fiercely polarizing, “Fifty pairs of boots that cost more than a kidney transplant,” here’s a middle man — a group of ten pairs of boots that we (I?) like (and in some instances own), coming in under $500 dollars but almost always over $100.

Because, young bucks, we’re members of the slow fashion movement, right? So instead of buy-to-chuck, we buy to stash.

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Follow the slideshow above like it is a yellow brick road and then below, in the comfort station that truly is a digital toilet, leave a comment to tell me this: do you find these posts helpful when you shop? Would you like to see more of them? If not, what kind of shopping posts would you like and perhaps most importantly: which boots are you getting?

Individual collages by Elizabeth Tamkin, feature collage by Krista Anna Lewis

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