Clarks Commemorates the Desert Boot.

Alleviating alcohol- and partying-induced aches is no mean task. However, I find the process of recovery is expedited somewhat when footwear- fetishizing is involved. After countless hours of traipsing around in search of THE boots, I eventually succumbed to dark brown suede. No they’re not exactly what I’d envisaged but they’re pretty damn fine all the same. No pics as of yet since I’ve returned to the homeland – sans entire – wardrobe for the weekend but a post is soon to follow…

What I do have though is a serious, and entirely unexpected, lust for Clarks. Once the prime purveyor of school-appropriate and irritatingly conservative footwear has pulled a bit of a Madonna and reinvented itself, all in the name of the desert boot. Invented by Nathan Clark in 1949, primarily for the off-duty soldier’s use, the desert boot has proved itself both practical and aesthetically pleasing. I don’t think it’s looked quite as hot as it’s seeming now, though, what with the launch of Clarks Originals 60th Anniversary collection. There’s one for each decade, from the 50s Harris tweed to the 00s vintage sand suede. The 90s Britpop-inspired model has me contemplating beans-on-toast for a month if it’d mean i’d have a chance…

^ 00s Vintage sand suede

^ 90s Britpop/Union Jack calf suede

^ 80s acid-washed denim (advertised as ‘for women’…personally, if I were a few sizes smaller, it’d not stop me…)

^ 70s Fringed deep purple suede

^ 60s Liberty print

^ 50 Harris tweed

Note: Just for the filmic fun, I recommend watching Tom Tykwer’s ‘Run Lola Run’/’Lola Rennt’. Can’t recall what footwear she sports while sprinting through the streets of post-unification Berlin but, regardless, for formal experimentalism, video game logic and questions of chaos theory it’s just what the doctor ordered.

Images from Hypebeast