Guys winter is coming

It's raining every other day, it drops to 60F during the day (brrrr), and my space heater is running 24/7. Winter at Stanford can be brutal, so treat your feet to some warm, cozy, I'll-beat-the-shit-out-of-you combat boots.

They aren't just for the goth kids anymore. This season, they are cute in addition to bad ass.

Here's the style I own. I love stuffing skinny jeans into them, unlacing them halfway, and walking around like I own the place. Combat boots just boost your self-perceived cool by about 100000%.

TROOPA, by Steve Madden.

Other variations on the theme are more or less masculine. For instance:

Basalt Militaire Boot - Anthropologie

Jenna Disc Lace - Frye

(Personally love the Frye boots... in the description it says these sport "a cascade of hand hammered studs set on round leather punches." And they are "thoroughly distressed by stone pummeling." Talk about classy, paying someone else to thoroughly pummel your shoes with a rock before you wear them. That's probs why they cost >$300.)

XOXO
Andrea

Side note: Because I do love these, I hope they don't blow up the way riding boots did during the winter of 2010-2011. I don't know if y'all remember, but that year when I came back from winter break every (sorority) girl on campus was wearing riding boots. It was an epidemic, guys. Let's hope it never happens again.