[fashion, reviews] The runner-up to The Perfect Boots

(As an aside, I've been having a fabulous conversation in some other people's journals about the goth subculture and what similarities and differences it has with the metal subculture, along with tangents about gender roles, how social circles select and enforce their boundaries, and subcultural markers that are all but invisible to the "untrained" eye. Great stuff. I just don't have time to do a lengthy post about it in my own LJ. But! I highly recommend Goth: Undead Subculture, edited by Lauren Goodlad for a good scholarly look at the subculture I call home.)

Anyway, boots!

( Behind a cut tag so those who don't care about finding Really Good Boots can just scroll on by ... )