Those would have been my first choice as well. Not as flashy as some of the others. They look more "authentic" and durable than the others (some look like they belong on a Nashville star and not on the range.) Dubb has impeccable taste in everything form skinny jeans to masks to western boots.
Thank you! Those were sort of my thoughts, too. Evaluated purely as an expression of the dusty-cowboy-fresh-off-the-prairie (and perhaps sweaty and smelling of horse and leather) aesthetic, those are the ones. I love the way the (fake) weathering highlights the scales with sort of a salt-crusted look, like an old dinosaur. Dry and (fake) cracked, not the least bit luxe. And the naive, jagged stitching looks like a naked bolt out of a cloudburst. I spent a great deal of time looking at them all, admiring the foreign aesthetic -- they are really quite beautiful. I do not know much about those boots but the skin on the foot seems to be the point, that all you see unless you are the lucky one who undresses him, looks like some kind of large leezard that has been flipped over on its belly and flayed..
Of course only Innerreach knows what sort of hole in his wardrobe he means to plug with these, perhaps the battered-and-dusty look is already covered and he needs more of a Midnight Cowboy vibe, dark, unctuous and slithery to reflect the neon of his local honky-tonk -- that is also very sexy. C looks like it could be the foot of the Devil himself! (G is a sort of toned-down version of C, foot not quite as shiny, contrast with the shank far more subtle, but still some striking red stitching as accents) If I really were his boyfriend I would know all the boots and have them categorized with jeans, belt, buckle, shirts, hats that complement but don't look too studied or coordinated or try-hard.
Were you to apply the current minimalist aesthetic, E would be the obvious choice: all about texture, with comparatively subtle tonal stitching and careful shading, a solid monochrome composition that exudes substance and confidence and looks very expensive. Though I love red boots I have my doubts about their utility though -- I think I have three or four pairs of reddish boots (of course in city style, not Western) and almost never wear them because they dominate the entire ensemble, the rest of your clothes must be toned down, blacks and grays and browns, so you don't look like you matched things (though I will occasionally hazard a pink tee underneath everything and cross my fingers) and they remain a striking accent. Though red boots inevitably produce compliments when you pull it off. Only a couple weeks ago some sketchy drunk beardo staggering around the ferry managed to mumble something like "Ah lock yer buuts" and point in a manner I took to be praise.
The only reservation I have about B is the weathering. It is hard to tell what sort of treatment they have done without handling and licking them but they have obviously not actually dried and cracked the foot; the shank may have been sandblasted but that is probably some gunk they have smeared in the cracks between the scales on the foot (sandblasting would have hit the high points, not the creases) and that artificial weathering, while it looks great new, tends to flake and look shitty after a while. You will notice F appears to be the same boot without the aging treatment and might be the better long-term investment, trusting in natural processes to produce a similar result over time. Though in truth by the time your foot looks like B naturally it's probably on the edge of disintegrating. And I know from experience that the kind of sandblasting they have done on the shank, even on very good boots, will make weak points which will fail faster than an unblasted pair. The aging is not all fake.
A and D are the same, the only reason I have not mentioned them up until this point is that my dad, in his cowboy phase, bought a pair that is very similar (matte brown shank, same stiching though without the leezard) and I teased him so much about them that the style is forever associated in my mind with dad boots and the kind of man who buys a pair but has never been on a horse. (I have been on a horse, barefoot or flippyfloppies, several times on the beach in Mexico but I am not sure that counts, and anyway I have spent far more time on mules on those jungle tours where they take dumb white boys and shoot them down ziplines and rappelling down waterfalls and laugh at them in Mexican -- I do like mules, a very comfortable ride by comparison). Innerreach likely doesn't have this issue, and the rich brown foot is eye-catching like an expensive purse and probably more versatile than a reddish pair, you can wear both day and night unlike H which looks like a nighttime boot to me with its contouring and shine. But what a night boot! I am not used to seeing that kind of flash in brown, very well done! They have dragged the palette almost to red, but not quite, more like a horse chestnut or buckeye, and the blonde stitching is not-at-all the obvious usage but turns out to be the perfect accent.
