Goth boots
Ugh Klarna is being a pain in the butt. It’s a thing that lets you break payments up into 4 equal payments so you don’t have to pay everything at once. I’m trying to get these sweet winklepicker boots and they’re about 210 bucks plus an ungodly amount of shipping because they’re from the UK. Klarna wanted to jack up my first payment to 125$ instead of 60$ and I can’t pay that at the moment, not until I get paid. Anyways that deeply annoys me. I have completely paid off everything else I’ve bought with it, early even. I have never had a late payment. My “purchase power” in Klarna is about $210 atm and I don’t know if that includes shipping, which is about $40. Holy shit, I know. But these boots are handmade and of impeccable quality and are just beautiful. Worth the trouble.
I have a pair of winklepickers I ordered like…10 years ago. The brand was Demonia and I had a good opinion of them before I got these boots. Not only did they send me patent leather when I asked for regular leather, but the “patent leather”, if you can really call it that, started to CHIP OFF. It literally fell off. Those cost me $100 and I don’t know why I didn’t send them back.
There was this shop in England called Pennangalan I think, who handmade beautiful Winklepickers and Pikes, but they stopped taking orders before I had a chance to get a pair, and everything else you could get on the internet was cheap “fast fashion” bullshit of poor quality. I’m so glad I found LondonRetroFootwear on Etsy. These are the boots I’m getting: www.etsy.com/listing/1589930427/benjamin-4-cowboy-winklepicker-boot
I’m pretty sure these don’t have a side zipper but the quality is worth having to actually buckle them up.
I went ahead and got this ring that was on my wishlist to try and raise my purchase power on Klarna: www.etsy.com/listing/913857940/buffalo-skull-ring-for-women-made-of
Cool as fuck. I also found out my ring size is 13.5.
I also have a hat coming, again from the UK I think, which is a replacement for the one I’ve had since 2006. It’s become faded and dented and I don’t think it can be fixed. It was time for a replacement anyhow. www.etsy.com/listing/1019194496/wide-stiff-brim-wool-pork-pie-hat
I want some stompy boots too at some point. Hope I can find a quality shop on Etsy.