He's quite right. My dirty bucs go particularly well with grey wool tropical weight trousers. A bit hard to keep the shoes clean though. One needs both a brass and a rubber bristled brush. Some folks get lazy and turn them into white bucs but I haven't seen that look since the mid 1960's.
On the other hand, desert boot chukkas with crepe soles are just about the ugliest looking shoes ever made. Plus the heels and soles last about five minutes if you weigh over 125 pounds. I don't care one whit if the defenders of Tobruk wore them. We used to call them "fruit boots."
As for blue jeans, a pair of rough out cowboy boots are just the ticket and unlike dirty bucs you needn't keep them un-scuffed.
"In every battle the eyes are the first to be conquered..."
- Tacitus, Germania
"One must work in solitude as a man who opens a clearing in virgin forest, sustained by the unique hope that somewhere in its depths, others are working to the same end."
- Ernst Jünger
"I find that I must go handsomely, whatever it costs me, and the charge will be made up in the fruit it brings."
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I could more easily envisage Obama in a Green Beret than Major Hoad in jeans.
He's quite right. My dirty bucs go particularly well with grey wool tropical weight trousers. A bit hard to keep the shoes clean though. One needs both a brass and a rubber bristled brush. Some folks get lazy and turn them into white bucs but I haven't seen that look since the mid 1960's.
On the other hand, desert boot chukkas with crepe soles are just about the ugliest looking shoes ever made. Plus the heels and soles last about five minutes if you weigh over 125 pounds. I don't care one whit if the defenders of Tobruk wore them. We used to call them "fruit boots."
As for blue jeans, a pair of rough out cowboy boots are just the ticket and unlike dirty bucs you needn't keep them un-scuffed.
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