BY MIKE CONKLIN For as many years as I’ve been working in this industry, I’ve written articles every year around this time celebrating the arrival of Boot Season. I have long considered myself a real dyed-in-the-wool boot guy, and I own a frankly disturbing number of them. My truth at the moment, though, is that I haven’t really been wearing them very often even now as we are in fact well into Boot Season. Instead, I’ve been on a steady diet of these Dr. Martens Crazy Horse Leather Derbies and a pair of Made in the USA New Balance 998s, both of which I heartily recommend (especially now, with the Docs being marked down to a very appealing $113). But starting this weekend and continuing through, say, March 1, I’m recommitting to the myriad boot styles that deserve a place in every man’s closet. Below, my picks within all the most popular of those styles, except for the Chelsea boot, which I’ve never been able to pull off because they’re a little too sleek for me or something? Anyway, let’s go. |