boot questions

twistedxknights · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 2:01 am Post subject: boot questions

are black garden boots acceptable to use for the costume?

also are the wellington style work boots acceptable as well?

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Drewid · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 6:14 am Post subject:

Sorry, but those won't be acceptable for submission. Here's the excerpt from the CRL for the boots:

• Boots – black laceless calf high boots
- with either a buckle at the top or buckle less
- German Jack boot style are most canon
- Equestrian style and other similar boots are accepted
- for the non-armored gunner black laceless shoes are worn

This forum has a lot of pictures of the canon boots. You'll want to have something that looks very close to the boots in that thread.
http://www.imperialgunnercorps.netfirms.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=168

Here's a link to the thread of possible boot sources, depending on inventories at the time.
http://www.imperialgunnercorps.netfirms.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13

Hope this helps! Smile

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twistedxknights · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 6:23 am Post subject:

ahh okay was just curious ..
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trooper15795 · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 6:24 am Post subject:

You can also Google: Fred's East Meets West. They are an Ebay store and sell some boots that match the CRL requirements. Not sure if they have your size but they treated me well.
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Drewid · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 6:31 am Post subject:

That's a great find! Looks like all of those boots will work. Thanks Chris!
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Woopdeedo · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:56 am Post subject:

twistedxknights · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:00 am Post subject:

nope.. at any rate it makes for good search fodder
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hbrika · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:57 pm Post subject:

I'm glad you asked, I have had a few GMLs come to me and ask if rain boots were acceptable because people were trying to get in with them.

Now this lets people know definitively that they can not.

I will be honest, boots were the hardest part of the costume to get for me and I nearly didn't have them for my second (yes second) event :/

But the good news is you have a whole detachment of people who will help Very Happy

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twistedxknights · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 6:25 pm Post subject:

true.. sent a message to a friend on The Dented Helmet who Is in Germany and asked if he would be willing to help locate a pair for me if possible..
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twistedxknights · Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 6:35 am Post subject:

Drewid · Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 6:47 am Post subject:

I would have to say those boots fail for having a zipper on the inner calf. Maybe they did a great job at hiding the zipper, but for that price, I'm going to guess they didn't. And vinyl boots might stand out from the rest of the costume (and not necessarily in a good way).
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twistedxknights · Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 9:32 am Post subject:

yeah the vinyl bots tend to be useless.. One of the 501st members here locally had a pair fail on him while he was putting them on for his first trooping in them ( zipper came off in his hand) .. i jsut wanted to be sure so i could steer clear from them..
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hbrika · Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 12:16 pm Post subject:

I like how the ad says "Perfect for your Darth vader Costume". Um kay Wink

Thanks for the warning about them falling apart! Shocked

Several have had good experience with the Trident boots though
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AdamScottFM · Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 11:39 pm Post subject:

Quite a few NEG members have these boots:

http://www.911buycostume.com/Pages/gogoboots/boot01.htm

Scroll down to the second boot. I've had mine for the last two years, and aside from a scuff where I kicked some plywood playing Lazer Tag in costume (long story), they've held up fantastically.
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trooper15795 · Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 4:25 am Post subject:

Try these links for size 13:

http://www.tridentmilitary.com/Boots.htm

Check East German reproduction boots or some of the Soviet boots.

or:

http://cgi.ebay.com/German-Made-Leather-Combat-Unissued-Boots-X-Large-Sizes_W0QQitemZ380099475758QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item587fb1b92e&_trksid=p4634.c0.m14.l1262#ht_1250wt_770

They cost more but are actually German combat boots instead of Ren-Faire boots. The Ren-Faire boots are too tall and don't look right with the Gunner uniform IMHO.......and again the zipper up the inside of the calf is wrong.
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