People Who Wear Or Wore Beatle Boots Esp. Captain Kirk How Many Can You Name Or Find Images Of

I need to go to sleep now but I hope that the good ILX0rs of Australia and the UK will post some fine contributions whilst I dream, I am talking to you James Morrison, Tom D and YOUR NAME HERE.

Iggy Pop, me at 14/15, Rolling Stones in '64.

I am down from owning like 8 pairs of Chelsea Boots at one point, to only 3 pairs these days. I'm slipping, I know.

But still! Any chance to shoehorn in a reference to Kraftwerk!!!

Ralf was sitting on the bench with his legs tightly crossed. With his pale complexion he appeared very doll-like, and although his grin was cautious, he was enjoying the situation. With his insurance salesman's framed glasses straight from the '50s and his shoulder-length hair, he looked more like a character from the classic film Psycho. Ralf's skin-tight, black leather trousers were legendary. I could see that he'd been impressed by the style of Jim Morrison of The Doors. I learned that he always wore pointed, winkle-picker ankle-boots, like The Beatles, and hat he had several pairs of these. At any rate, I almost always saw him wearing only this type of footwear, apart from his white moccasins.

Do wish I'd picked up pairs of the Annelo and Davide zip sided and elastic sided styles. I think they were at least one source that supplied the Beatles.
They were still around in the vicinity of Drury lane/Covent Garden in the early 80s when I first got into fashion. But closed down a few years later.

I had got ballet shoes from there when I was doing ballet as a kid.

I used to prefer the elastic sided ones to zips, but the problem is the elasticity goes and then the shoes don't stay on. I'm wearing zipped ones today.

The real question is, though: flat heels or Cuban heels.

Authentically, they should have Cuban heels. I suspect this was part of the appeal for Herr Hütter. (I've been looking for photos but keep getting distracted by the leather trousers) - Wolfgang goes on to talk about how he loved the platform boot styles of the 70s because he was only 172cm and needed the height! Looking at them standing in a row, I always thought Florian was very tall because he stuck out. But no! Even with Ralf in Cuban heels, he's a titchy little thing, not any bigger than Wolfgang.

So Cuban heels are great if you are insecure about your height.

I'm about 6 feet tall and possibly a couple of inches shorter at that time, but I really liked the look of cuban heels though I never got the really good looking narrow ones. Or maybe that's more shorter ones as in from back of heel to front
like this
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Retro-LENNON-Leather-Chelsea-Beatle/dp/B00GGPDJV0

What I had sloped in at the back and then sloped up to the centre of the foot instead of having a vertical front to the heel.
THOugh maybe the 60s beatle boots I had were mre like the classic cuban heel though i think that seemed to have a front that was at 45 degree instead of straight across the sole, which is an oodd way to construct things i think.

I spent hours drawing/doodling cuban heeled boots in school book corners and also cowboy heels.
Which looked more like the annelo and davide ones
http://www.stylehive.com/bookmark/anello-davide-the-beatle-boot-200642
than anything i actually lay my hands on.

Yeah, there are two forces at work in the making of the perfect "Beatle Boot". The pointiness of the toe, which generates the "winklepicker" aspect (though there can be boots with round or square or cowboy semi-squared - my personal favourite - toes) and then the height of the heel. An actual Cuban Heel should slope backwards, it's an almost diagonal effect. To keep your feet in the stirrups, I guess? Looking at GIS, it seems that Chelsea Boots tend to have flattish heels, while the actual full-on Beatle Boot has a Cuban heel. I always kind of used those terms interchangeably, but I guess that's wrong? Oops!

I have an amazing pair of Red Or Dead chelsea boots which are just too damn narrow for my feet these days. They are so astonishingly pointed! I guess I should sell them.

I do recall this was supposed to be a picture thread.

http://41.media.tumblr.com/d4090fe8b78e0b8c4f3cc311e8d1d4f4/tumblr_mo4qocQ6eU1ritsqio1_1280.png

I think the actual Beatle boot was more chisel toed with a seam running down the centre of the front. That's more the shape of the elastic sided Annelo & davide style whereas the zip sided was narrower & more winklepickerish

boots in general make you taller - it's very satisfying stomping around in boots, everyone should have boots