Boots and Uffe
First off, before I scare you off with a long and possibly boring boot rant: go and look at this. It's an online exhibition with my favourite artist, Ulf Lundkvist, and I can't recommend it strongly enough. The paintings are partially rather badly photographed, but you'll get the idea.
This man is my hero, right up there with Florence Foster Jenkins and Danielle Dax.
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I need new boots for the winter. I had more or less made up my mind to get these, but I'm not so sure anymore.
I think I'll get a pair of these instead of the Lorians. I already have a pair of pretty, but impractical pointy grannies with kitten heels; what I need, really badly, is practical boots that can take a lot of beating, thrashing, November, February and March.
This review also made me think twice about it; it's the only first-hand opinion I've been able to find, and I'm very hard on my footwear. I don't alternate much between different pair of shoes and boots; when I find a good pair, I will wear them more or less constantly until they fall apart. I am willing to pay a lot of money for really good boots, but I don't want to spend over 170 bucks on shoddily made ones. Great quality and regular visits to the cobbler's were the only reasons that made my late granny boots last for as long as three years; they were worth every öre/cent of the 1500 kr/170 dollars I paid for them.
So, yes; the CABoots packers seem better, all around. The Lorians are prettier, but that's sort of part of the problem, too - they are so nearly, but not quite perfect that it bothers me. The packers look good in a very different way, and they are rather far from the vision of The Perfect Granny Boots I have in my head - which turns out to be a point in their favour. Different but practical, functional and good-looking turns out to be better than maddeningly not-quite-perfect.
They also happen to be a lot less expensive than the Lorians; and I think the leather, the craftsmanship and the general quality looks better, from what I can see in the pictures.
And the packers radiate massive Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax vibes to me. That's yet another nice point; the combination of old-fashioned style with ruthless, no-nonsense functionality is really rather irresistible.
This man is my hero, right up there with Florence Foster Jenkins and Danielle Dax.
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I need new boots for the winter. I had more or less made up my mind to get these, but I'm not so sure anymore.
I think I'll get a pair of these instead of the Lorians. I already have a pair of pretty, but impractical pointy grannies with kitten heels; what I need, really badly, is practical boots that can take a lot of beating, thrashing, November, February and March.
This review also made me think twice about it; it's the only first-hand opinion I've been able to find, and I'm very hard on my footwear. I don't alternate much between different pair of shoes and boots; when I find a good pair, I will wear them more or less constantly until they fall apart. I am willing to pay a lot of money for really good boots, but I don't want to spend over 170 bucks on shoddily made ones. Great quality and regular visits to the cobbler's were the only reasons that made my late granny boots last for as long as three years; they were worth every öre/cent of the 1500 kr/170 dollars I paid for them.
So, yes; the CABoots packers seem better, all around. The Lorians are prettier, but that's sort of part of the problem, too - they are so nearly, but not quite perfect that it bothers me. The packers look good in a very different way, and they are rather far from the vision of The Perfect Granny Boots I have in my head - which turns out to be a point in their favour. Different but practical, functional and good-looking turns out to be better than maddeningly not-quite-perfect.
They also happen to be a lot less expensive than the Lorians; and I think the leather, the craftsmanship and the general quality looks better, from what I can see in the pictures.
And the packers radiate massive Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax vibes to me. That's yet another nice point; the combination of old-fashioned style with ruthless, no-nonsense functionality is really rather irresistible.