Vegetarian Boots

In the olden days - you know which ones I'm talking about, right? - when Adam and Eve's descendants were mucking around in the wilderness and braving bitter ice ages, when there was no fruit (forbidden or otherwise) and, when you pee'd, it froze to your bottom...ok, maybe too much information but it was in that day when hunters would bring back meat to sustain their clans and animal skins to warm them. There was no cotton then, no nylon or other synthetic fabrics. If they wanted to survive, they had to kill and wear animals.

Nowadays, thanks to natural and unnatural climate change (read: global warming), few of us live in places cold enough to warrant wearing bearskins. As a matter of fact, we don't even need the skins of cows to maintain the stylish lifestyles we expect. It turns out that the wide variety of alternative fabric choices available for producing both apparel and footwear makes this "udderly" passe. Todays man and woman-made fabrics will outwear any leather, come in equivalent tones and textures to leather, and are often even waterproof (without being treated).

But why look for these when there are lots of shoe choices in leather? First, it never hurts to save money. It's just cheaper to make these new fabrics than to raise, kill, and skin a cow before going through the complicating leather curing process. The savings from the elimination of this process are passed on to consumers, to you. If killing animals is against your ethics, then this is of course another very compelling reason to switch to "vegetarian" shoes. Also, synthetic materials are much easier to clean. No more leather cleaning solution or suede brush required. And finally, the aesthetic appeal and number available of these choices brings this to the fore of our minds.

Let's take a look at some of the really beautiful man/woman-made boots available. Here from Novacas is the very elegant Angelica Black Boot. Also, be sure to check out the Daily Boot today which offers another lovely choice, the Annie Boot from Annie Kaine.























Thanks for reading,
Zoë Magdelena