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just asking for suggestions where can i buy beautiful knee high riding boots in new york, i know e. vogel makes custom boots for around $1000 while ralph lauren sell theirs english made for $1100. By the way i'm wearing them with tight jeans and a leather belt but i'm not a rider. I'm just thinking ss officer used to wear them and it will be a pleasure to shine them and keep them.

I must admit that I too covet a set of knee high boots, but alas, I fear that the SS stereotype will forever haunt me if I do.

I believe that RM Williams have a shop in NY, I have seen their riding boots in person here and would recommend them. The cheapest option is probably to get fitted in the shop there then order from Australia online (the exchange rate should work in your favour).

I think it might be a good idea to avoid riding boots if you don't ride and only wear them on a horse if you do. Anything else and you risk looking a little silly.

Try something a little more subtle: Paddock boots, perhaps or Jodhpur boots. Something not so obviously single-purpose. Take a looking at the following website:

http://jlpowellusa.com/product/33-Footw ... -Boot.html

carl browne wrote:I think it might be a good idea to avoid riding boots if you don't ride and only wear them on a horse if you do. Anything else and you risk looking a little silly.

Try something a little more subtle: Paddock boots, perhaps or Jodhpur boots. Something not so obviously single-purpose. Take a looking at the following website:

http://jlpowellusa.com/product/33-Footw ... -Boot.html

I agree with this - unless you were an aspiring Cecil B de Mille;although it might be worth learning to ride to have the boots anyway...
NJS

when I was about 30, I bought a pair of ghillie shoes from John Lobb. I considered this a major accomplishment of style. A more grown up person suggested that they were really not suited to sidewalks.
So I had to buy a house in the country.

edhayes wrote:when I was about 30, I bought a pair of ghillie shoes from John Lobb. I considered this a major accomplishment of style. A more grown up person suggested that they were really not suited to sidewalks.
So I had to buy a house in the country.

Nice to have though - a house in the country - not to mention the shoes.
NJS

I stand corrected. My new advice is as follows:

1. Buy boots.

2. Buy $100,000 hunter-jumper.

3. Take riding lessons.

4. Enjoy boots.

i agree with all of you, but how come some military officers used them, even movie directors Howard Hugues, Cecil Demille. And even professional drivers used to wear them, What about protection from the rain and mud. I've even seen little kids with high boots and women boots constantly. I'm just so tired of the same blue suits and shoes they wear on the city, is worst than a uniform. And just remember how beautiful leather is. How it shines when it's clean.

santy567 wrote:i agree with all of you, but how come some military officers used them, even movie directors Howard Hugues, Cecil Demille. And even professional drivers used to wear them, What about protection from the rain and mud. I've even seen little kids with high boots and women boots constantly. I'm just so tired of the same blue suits and shoes they wear on the city, is worst than a uniform. And just remember how beautiful leather is. How it shines when it's clean.

Let's hope that you have a volunteer to black them for you!!
NJS

not black, brown boots.I can get black with a brown cuff but i prefer brown or tan with straps and laces, and even perforations as a decorations on the toes.

www.vogelboots.com

santy567 wrote:not black, brown boots.I can get black with a brown cuff but i prefer brown or tan with straps and laces, and even perforations as a decorations on the toes.

www.vogelboots.com

Top boots (principally hunting boots) are normally black waxed calf, with mahogany or champagne tops and plain brown leather boots, with no tops, are butcher boots; those with laces are polo boots or field boots and those with leather vamp and canvas calf and top straps are Newmarkets. Henry Maxwell has a long and proud tradition for making boots.
NJS

I may be mistaken, but I believe that the tan boot-leg tops (as well as the pink coats) are reserved for the highest ranking members of the hunt.

carl browne wrote:I may be mistaken, but I believe that the tan boot-leg tops (as well as the pink coats) are reserved for the highest ranking members of the hunt.

You are not mistaken exactly because variations on a theme of scarlet hunting coats and top boots are, indeed, reserved for invited members of the hunt and the 'officers' of it. But I adhere to my point that there are mahogany and champagne top boots - 'cuffs' do not figure in this connection.If you desire to wax contentious about this and become more learned than I could possibly make you, then, I direct you to Terry Moore of Foster & Sons/Henry Maxwell.
NJS.