Where Angels Fear
2 min readJan 29, 2022

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Ah.

No, those are a bit too knockoff for my tastes.

You should either get the ones in the original image (which are much more stylish ¹)

... or else German army surplus paratrooper boots — okay, they're black, not brown ... and you can't get the '90s style ones any more (they were seriously cool) ... but they're cheaper, harder wearing and, above all, mark you out as genuinely alternative, not a weekend warrior (ironically enough) ²..

¹ If I could get a pair of those with steel toecaps, 'd be over the Moon.

² Wore them myself for many a long year (around twenty-five) before I made the change to Chargers/Caterpillars exclusively ³.

³ It seemed a bit silly to keep buying both types, when I was increasingly not bothering with the para-boots .

⁴ After around five years of not wearing them often enough to get them worn in, battered and scuffed up ... meaning that each time I contemplated wearing them, I didn't ... because they still looked like new ... so they never got sufficiently worn in, battered and scuffed up ... I just thought "sod this, it's a vicious cycle, so what's the point in having them?"

⁵ I had a friend in the Army staying with me once and, when I got home, he mentioned that he'd nearly dubbed my boots for me. I had to explain to him that I was sooooo glad he hadn't — it would take literally two-to-three years of daily mistreatment to get them into the state I liked (by the time they were, they'd be in dire need of re-soling) and to have to start over after a year would've all but made me cry.

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Where Angels Fear
Where Angels Fear

Written by Where Angels Fear

There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live and too rare to die.

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