Boot Tuck: Discuss.

[AR_Six]

Shocked to find on searching that no such thread has existed previously. Dos and Don'ts? What contexts? What boots? Do you do it, and have you pictoral examples? What takes it too far? General opinions regarding the practice?

I offer the following willycheesesteak awesomeness as inspiration, borrowed from WAYWT thread:

Discuss.

 

[constant struggle]

need to be tall / skinny
don't be short/stubby

 

[robbie]

I think it looks cool, I can't pull it off. I think its like stacking, everything has to fall into place just so or else it doesn't work.

 

[AR_Six]

Originally Posted by constant struggle

need to be tall / skinny
don't be short/stubby
As kunk as my witness, I say that stature can be worked around.

 

[Robert]

It's a fad/trend that I greatly hope passes soon. It just looks silly to me.

 

[Jekyll]

OT, but I'm digging that coat. What is it? As far as tucking goes, I don't have any advice other than don't do it unless you're sure it looks as awesome as the above picture. Because most of the time it looks ****. And if there are any women reading this, burn the Uggs, please.

 

[Robert]

I could see one practical reason for tucking, and that would be just to keep your pants dry in a storm. But as far as a fashion/style consideration, no.

 

[Listi]

I've seen some good and some bad. Goods were really good, bads were really bad. Just one of those things that if you don't pull it off perfectly, you're going to look awful I suppose.

I make fun of bad things people do with their jeans in the winter with my friend and girls are certainly 10x worse offenders than guys when it comes to boot awfulness. I saw a girl wearing some decently large boots that went up to her knee, and she was wearing some sort of bootcut jeans, and instead of tucking them in, or trying to fit them over the boots, she just tucked in the hem and let the rest of the jeans just stack up at her knees. It was an atrocity. I saw some guy wearing some fairly low boots, completely undone, big white socks coming out of them pulled halfway up the leg, jeans stuffed into sock at mid calf. I was just like, how could you have spent enough time to tuck your jeans into your socks and not realized half way through that you'd look terrible.

 

[rocks]

I let my mine stack besides my boots aren't the tucking type ie PS. For tucking one needs a rugged work-wear type boot which I don't own.

 

[gqreader239]

As long as your pant legs stack inside the boot neatly without bulging out then you are good. I think its a great look.

 

[AR_Six]

Originally Posted by Listi

I saw some guy wearing some fairly low boots, completely undone, big white socks coming out of them pulled halfway up the leg, jeans stuffed into sock at mid calf. I was just like, how could you have spent enough time to tuck your jeans into your socks and not realized half way through that you'd look terrible.
By the time I was finished reading this I had a mental picture and it hurt. Physical pain.

I actually started this thread because I now actually own casual boots, whereas before I owned none. I am contemplating attempting a boot tuck but as mentioned I do have stature to work around (I am tall but not skinny... not fat either but not skinny). More than anything, it seems if you don't do it right it looks sort of costumey.

I figure there must be plenty of people with experience in making this happen around here as I see it in WAYWT every so often (recently, via Warlok and SoCal).

 

[DrPat]

This look exploded in popularity two years ago with teenage girls but it seems to be on the way out these days. An Italian colleague has remarked that the look reminds him of the fascist style. http://rosenblumtv.files.wordpress.c...lini090909.jpg http://calitreview.com/images/Benito...olf_Hitler.jpg There was a related thread on MC about tucking trousers into riding boots. http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=90986

 

[Leonard Leroy]

Time and a place.

 

[rocks]

Let me also say I like the look, it's just that I don't own any military styled work-wear type boots. If I had owned a pair of Carpe Diems or Attachment boots then I'd definitely rock the look.

 

[Robert]

It reminds me of kids in the early 1990s rolling up their jeans over their high-top converse.

And the look on that model's face, like, "Are you sure this looks okay?"