 You know what? I don't really care what kind of a job you're in or what kind of income you make or even where you live. Every man, dare I say person, lives three types of lives in one life. So if you like your boots, you need to figure out what three types of boots you might need in your life. Keep watching and I'll explain. Good day. So how are you going? Welcome back to Bootlossophy and if you're a first-timer, my name is Tech and I acknowledge the traditional custodians of these lands I live and work on, the widget people of Western Australia. Today, I'm going to explain why every person is going to need three types of boots in their lives. I don't care if you're a manual laborer or an office worker, whether you earn just enough to give your family a good life or if you're a millionaire. And I don't care where you live. All of us live three lives in our one, typified by the three types of activities that we take part in. Whomever we are, we may go to work in an office or go to a church or to a christening or to a wedding or a funeral. Somewhere where we'll need a dressy outfit, either like a full-blown suit or at least good dress pants, dress shirt and a tailored jacket of some kind. And we all probably live a proportion of our lives in relaxed casual mode, whether that's after work or maybe at work in a relaxed office or at the weekends entertaining or meeting the guys at the pub for a Sunday session. And finally, all of us will have occasion for rugged outfits. Perhaps because we work with our hands or in the outdoors or we like to go camping or hiking or fishing, or we just have to dig in the garden on Sundays. So in your three lives in one, you will be wearing a dressy outfit, a casual outfit and a rugged or outdoor outfit. And since you've come to a boot review channel, I'm going to take this video to show you what boots you can wear with each of these outfits within three price ranges. Up to US $300, from US $300 to $500 and from US $500 and over. I'll leave links to where you can get the boots mentioned in the description below. And while you check them out, if you like what you see, click on the like button too. Oh, and guess what? These are going to be my choices. So there are going to be a lot of disagreements in the comments below. Just keep it civil, huh? So to kick off, I'm going to look at dress boots or at least some commonly available boots that look dressy and can be worn with suits or at least business casual attire. And because most of the boots I'll be talking about will be available on American websites, I'll mostly be talking in US dollars when I'm talking dollars. In the up to $300 range, I'm going to pick the Thursday Boot Company wing tip boots made in the shoe capital of Latin America, Leon in Mexico. They sell for $235 and because Thursday is a web-based direct-to-consumer company, you can get them anywhere. Their wing tips come in a variety of colors and different uppers leathers, but for the dressy versions, I pick the darker smooth grain leather models. This is one that they call dark oak in smooth and pebbled full grain leather. It's good year-welded for durability and water resistance and it comes with a studded outsole similar to the popular day-night outsole. Some people might say that brogues are not truly dressy, but I think that distinction went a long time ago. In the UK and in most Commonwealth countries, as well as in Europe, brogues can now be seen worn with a suit, especially in this dark color. And as a brogued boot, it's also versatile because yes, it can be dressed down under chinos or even jeans. Next, into the 300 to 500 category, I would choose the Grant Stone diesel boot in this black chromic cell iteration. Grant Stone is another direct-to-consumer company, so it's easily available online and this one sells for $380. So, well down at the lower end of the up to 500 range, but it's absolutely packed with value. Where the Thursday boots leather was tanned in Mexico, which is good to begin with, this upper leather is tanned by the famous Horween tannery in Chicago, USA. Grant Stone construction quality is exceptionally good. Yes, made in China, but the Finnish quality rivals any made in Europe or made in America product. In this case, the veg tanned leather sole construction, also good year-welded, the quality of stitching and finishing and so on are all above what you would expect of a low $300 boot. In black chromic cell, you can wear this with a suit or with chinos and sports coat, and you can even dress it down to jeans, so it is totally versatile. If you want to watch my full review, you can check out the link in the corner up there. Then, moving on up to over $500, I choose the best Chelsea boot ever made, the RM Williams Craftsman boot. In Australia, these cost $649 Aussie dollars and about $540 US dollars in the States. Still made in Australia, they sell on the various different countries websites and have a pretty extensive range of either branded or third-party retailers in pretty much every market in the world. This pair is in black yearling leather, that's a calf that's less than a year old, which provides a thin but very strong leather and is on a thin leather sole for dressiness. You can get them with the comfort rubber sole that's not that much thicker in profile. Both are $270 good year-welded, so can be easily resold to last you a few decades. It may surprise some people that I chose a Chelsea boot as a dress boot, but here in boardrooms in Australia, lawyers, bankers and accountants wear these with a suit and that trend certainly appears also in the UK and now is pervading into more places in the business world. Its last is very dressy, yet its sleek shape is versatile enough to be worn on horseback in the paddock with jeans or with moleskin trousers or chinos as well as smart gear. I've taken pains to explain the versatility of those three boots previously, that they can be dressed down, that they can be worn not just with a suit but as business casual. Not only that, they can also be worn with even more casual gear like jeans and say polo shirts. However, assuming you want more than one pair of boots, what might you wear with your casual gear? Let's say you dress for a social backyard barbecue or you come home from work and you change to take the dog for a walk or you decide to prop up the bar at your local. What boot would you pull on then? Well, starting at the under $300 range for relaxed or social occasions, you can't really go wrong with an easy pull-on Chelsea boot. You're easy to leave by the door and pull on when you go out and the more relaxed makeups are comfortable in both uppers and the sole. This one is the Rhodes Blake Chelsea boot from Huckbury. Rhodes is their footwear house brand and this boot is made from a soft waterproof treated four-grain rough-out suede made in Leon in Mexico. The Goodyear welter PU wage sole is comfortable, really easy to break in and slip resistant as well as being pretty durable. They sell for $198 and is available from Huckbury's website and can be shipped anywhere in the world. You can check out my full review up there but they fit well and QC is consistent and more than passable. Their lower price will be because of the use of leatherboard materials in the midsole and the heel counters but it is horses for courses and these fit the bill for an attractive Chelsea boot for any casual outfit whether it be five pocket pants, chinos or jeans with button-down shirts, polo shirts, even t-shirts. There's a lot of relaxed old money aesthetic in these boots. Right now moving into the 300 to 500 range I picked this pair of Parker's Allen boots in Spruce Kudu. Now if you're a boot collector or just generally mad about boots you know that Parker's went the full 10 rounds when COVID hit and their supply chain got severely disrupted. This one is an older makeup made in their New York contracted factory but they have now moved most of their manufacturing to Spain and from my experience of their more recent Spanish made boots I believe they now see a more consistent QC from that Spanish factory. This is available from their website. Yes another director consumer company for $388. That's not at all bad value for a boot made from Charles Ted's Kudu tannage. It's an African antelope and it shows the most amazing natural scars and imperfections on the surface leaving you with a green boot that will attract attention under all your casual outfits. Kudu is another light but very supple lever and it's easy to break in but because of the fiber structure it's pretty good against nicks and cuts and use. The construction is solid with triple and double stitching where it matters. It has a semi-gusseted tongue, veg tan insole and midsole and in this case a day night outsole. But newer ones will have a commando lugged sole. Of course it's good you're welded for water resistance and recraftability and the new versions have a steel shank whereas these have a fiber glass shank. You can watch my full view up there. You might think the green color is hard to pair with your outfits but you'd be surprised. Being a plain toe boot they can surprisingly fit into most casual outfits. They go well with clean dark denim jeans or earth tone chinos in khaki or dark brown but in my opinion the best way to match these is to wear single tone outfits like say all black or blue jeans and blue shirts. Make them stand out. Above all though don't wear them with green or you look like a leprechaun. The comfortable and low profile last means that they can pair with all your casual outfits from neat to totally relaxed. Then moving to the over 500 range I would choose this boot which is the well over 500 dollar range boot. This is Weiberg's stitch down service boot in brown chrome excel. Weiberg is a Canadian company that's been around for generations and sells through their own website as well as through collaborations with other men's clothing websites and some brick and mortar retailers as well but mainly North America. There is a retail store in Australia though. It's called the Up There store over in Melbourne. Unlike buying from some of the other websites of this particular price range there is not much of a weight which is an advantage. Most of the other brands of this kind of quality and this price are generally made to order meaning you'll have to wait a few weeks if not months between making your order and then being made and then shipped. Weiberg seem to have boots in stock and apart from standard chrome excel they open special runs of different leathers but they'll be made in stock whenever the run is announced so that they'll be ready for the sale. These cost 800 US on their site and over a thousand Aussie in the Melbourne outlet so not cheap but what do you get? They are recognised as having probably the best clicking or leather selection out there. Using the stitch down method of construction the boots are durable water resistant and recraftable so they'll last you a long time. The construction while it's machine stitch rather than hand bottomed is very precise and sophisticated. Coming from a history of making work boots for forestry workers the making of this boot rivals any English dress boot maker from Northampton and selling in high class German street stores in London. This particular makeup is chrome excel from Horween it's on a genuine UK made day night soul. Having flirted with foam fillers in the past Weiberg service boots now is an all leather constructed boot from the uppers of course to the toe paths and heel counters and into the insoles mid-soles and they use cork fillers. The materials used are gold standard and the quality control is exceptional. I'll do a video of this makeup soon but you can check out my review of another pair up there in a leather called Colata. They're also very versatile boots as you'd hope for an expensive boot so that you can reduce cost per wear. Keep this one polished and it would not go amiss under a suit but for most of the time you'd want to wear this as a comfortable casual boot again from neat casual to rugged casual. So moving on to the third category boots suitable for your outdoor activities. Now I hesitate to say work boots because that has some distinct connotations. I don't work with my hands although I'm no stranger to that having worked as a builder's labourer and a North Sea or Rick Roust about in my late teens many years ago working my way through university and through article ship as a chartered accountant in London in the 1970s and early 80s. I only say this to allay the fears of mostly I have to say American workers who feel a kind of stolen valour thing when people who don't work with their hands talk about work boots but mainly I'm calling this category rugged outdoor rather than work boots because builders and tradies in Australia wouldn't use any of these heritage style boots as work boots preferring today's modern lightweight poron and Gore-Tec style work boots or good old-fashioned Aussie Chelsea work boots like blunnies, redbacks, Rossies or even Mongol boots. Anyway I see this category as that part of your life where you'd go for a long hike in the bush or go camping and fishing in the bush and out back and need some protective footwear or maybe pull on to dig in the garden or yard or maybe climb on the roof to do some quick clean or repairs so outdoor rather than protective work boots like Knicks or JKs and boots like that. Let's start with under 300 and just under 300 for now at $299.99. Indeed some leathers in this style are already over 300 by about $10 but I would still put it in this category as it's in that gray borderline area and honestly I'm not sure what I replace it with in the under 300s maybe thorough goods that are as good as these. Yet of course every boot lover's open or closet desire a red-wing classic mock-toe. This design in the initial 877 8-inch mock-toe has been around since the 1950s originally designed for farmers and hunters where the traction tread wedge sole kept dirt off the soles when they went home indoors and remained comfortable out in the outdoors over any kind of hunting or farming landscape. This one is the 875 6-inch version in the iconic orange aura legacy uppers tanned by Redwing's in-house tannery SB Foot Tannin. Notoriously painful to break in once broken in they are incredibly comfortable and protective. Redwing boots are available online as well as many retail stores across the world. In Oz there's one outlet per almost every major capital city and their own branded stores are all over Asia. The mock-toe design provides roomy comfort in the toe box while the soft wage sole gives you all the shock absorption you need. Even though Redwing is a huge company making way more boots per annum than any of the other brands I mentioned attention to detail and QC is still really good. Yeah sometimes you see a boot on social media where maybe the quarters are a bit of skew or the hardware is misaligned but as a percentage of boots made that's really a tiny minuscule amount. 360 degree good you're welter apart from comfort they're durable and recraftable and unless you decide to swim a river will keep your feet dry under most conditions. You can wear them with your scruffiest jeans and t-shirts or dare I say it in your most hipster car heart work pants and flannels and they'll fit right in. Dive deeper into how they're made in my video up there. Okay so moving into the 300 to 500 category and let me go a little further afield. This is Bordon Colombia's Tocano boot in waxed medium brown suede. Bordon is a reasonably new entrant into the world of heritage style boots started in 2019 by partners Andres and Natalia. I cheat a little because while they are a direct-to-consumer online bootmaker they only make boots in about four maybe five group MTO sessions a year. Okay maybe not totally easily available but every few months isn't too inaccessible. The Tocano is not actually a work boot or even an outdoor boot but it deals built tough and I've personally taken these out for some extreme hikes across some extreme terrain. They sell for the low to mid 300s depending on the leather. This one is an Italian tanned wax suede and while comfortable is sturdy in the hand it's more than a soft supple suede and it feels more like full grain wax flesh because of the input of waxes into the tanning process and the lining. The construction is double row stitch down so combined with the waterproof wax suede is very water resistant and it is recraftable. The insole and midsole are slabs of veg tan leather with a steel shank newer versions have a leather shank as well as a leather heel counter and the filling in the midsole is cork. The outsole and heel top lift are vibram commando lug products. As they gain experience quality of construction is getting better and better but even in this boot their second ever batch and their first stitch down batch this has withstood everything I've thrown at it and it's protected my feet and ankles on rocks and mud. You can watch my detailed review up there. Moving on now though to the over 500 range in the rugged and outdoor category. I'm picking the white mp boot in their signature cinnamon wax flesh. A close second that I had really had to think about is the Truman Boot on their 79 last in Java wax flesh but I chose the mp boots purely from my personal love for the white mp service boot of which I now have four pairs. Truman boots came close though very close. I'm cheating again here by the way because while whites mp boots are mostly in stock on their website and through collaborations with others like Division Road, nevertheless depending on the makeup you may have to wait for your order to be built but taking all that into consideration and the fact that their rival in my mind at least the Truman Boot is currently having stock built up they're still a good choice. This one is in the 50 50 last rather than the usual mp last the difference being in that their back half is based on the 55 last which is narrow at the back and the front is based on the mp last giving a snug fit and roomy comfort in front. These are around 700 dollars and in Melbourne at the Urahara store in Collingwood they sell for around 900 Aussie. So like I asked of the Weibergs what do you get for that kind of money? You get a pretty tough rugged boot that's built like a work boot even though it isn't really technically a work boot. I wouldn't recommend that you wear this onto a building job site. However it can certainly be worn rugged on a long hike say or to go camping fishing or perhaps a hunting trip in the bush. It is a heavily sturdily built boot with all that leather under your feet giving you a very supportive arch area and a lot of protection against turning your ankle or against branches and rocks. It's also a boot that looks like how a child might draw a boot if you asked you know capto chunky which I find attractive and that's it. My belief is that whatever you do for work and whatever lifestyle you mainly live there's always a place for a dress boot, a casual boot and a rugged boot. Bearing in mind the different prices and what you can get for those prices I've tried to show you what I think would be good choices in your life depending on your lifestyle. Look I know there's a lot who will disagree with my choices that's what the boot nerd world is really like. We all have our favorites but I am basing my choices under the boots that are in my collection not those outside it and even so I've had to think really hard about what not to include so there if you like what you saw give me a like at the bottom and if you're not a subscriber fix that right now and click on subscribe and down there you'll also find links to the boot websites so you can do your own research and maybe decide on one or two of them. In the meantime stay tuned for more boot reviews coming up. Until then take care of yourselves and I'll see you soon.