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I have about forty billion real entries boiling around in my brain, about RL and fandom and CHICAGO, but my feet are actually too cold for my brain to function. Oh my God, Chicago, enough with the cold! I get it! You are a city-shaped refrigerator! So instead of providing actual content, I will ask you all a Very Important Question. What are your favorite ass-kicking boots? I need something sturdy and rubber-soled, preferably with a heel less than 3 inches high. To give you some impression of the urgency of this issue, I will tell you that I have been wearing flip-flops for the past week. FLIP-FLOPS.

Rec me boots! It is a matter of serious concern!

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are you seriously still wearing flip-flops? Oh, sweetie...

I am currently coveting these extremely sexy boots (http://www.dmusastore.com/Detail.bok?no=512&Category=Womens:Boots#). Look! Pretty! ...but I'm not yet at a place where I can spend a week's pay on a pair of boots. Maybe next quarter, if I'm in Chicago...

In the meantime, though, my favorite pair of ass-kicking boots are also docs, only shorter (shoe-height, really) and much more scuffed. They need replacing, but I am in denial.

BOOTS BOOTS BOOTS.

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I think it says bad things about my level of practicality that the ones I wannt most are these (http://www.dmusastore.com/Detail.bok?no=2068).

But yeah, the voice of the masses seems to be crying out DOC MARTENS, so that might be what I go with. I say "might," because I do not spent ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS on shoes pretty much ever. I am CHEAP like a whore.

These (http://www.dmusastore.com/Detail.bok?no=2073) are my favorite ones that aren't velvet.

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How are you wearing flipflops in this weather?!

My favorite ass-kicking boots are knock-offs from Payless, so I'm not very helpful. Though, they have lasted five winters, so maybe cheap-ass boots are the way to go.

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The "how" seems to be through sheer strength of will. I don't OWN practical shoes! I did have cheap Payless boots from about 7th grade through senior year of high school, but now I want some that are actually, you know, waterproof? But I do love Payless.

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DOCS. Docs, Docs, Docs, I SWEAR by them. Expensive? But SO worth it. Get the kind with the steel toes - they seem to hold up really well, and you can kick things with no injury to your toes. *g* A friend had her foot run over by a car in those - didn't feel a thing. I LOVE mine (and am also in deep denial) - I've had them for six years now. They're awesome. Get Docs. :D

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But they are EXPENSIVE and I am CHEAP! *clutches her money with miserly claws* I think I might be too much of a girl for the steel toed ones – they are a little intense for my purposes. But I do love these (http://www.dmusastore.com/Detail.bok?no=2073)... And everyone seems to agree about Docs... *conflicted*

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I think this is a state-wide problem. *hates on Illinois cold*

As I have only tennis shoes and flip flops, I'll be watching the comments with some interest!

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WHY IS IT SO COLD DEAR LORD. *hates*

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I DO NOT KNOW I THINK THE WEATHER IS BROKEN.

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Kids at my high school (about an hour north of the loop, probably an hour and a half from Hyde Park) wear flip-flops in the winter because they lack brain cells, and I usually just wear all the different kinds of pumas I have and get my feet wet, so I'm no help. I'm sorry :(

I might do an overnight at Chicago soon even though I lived there over the summer since it'd be fun. I'm going to be so sad if I get a rejection letter from my sophomore slacking.

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Hmm, yeah, sounds like my school. But I do a *lot* more walking outside here than I ever did back home, so... yeah. Need practical shoes NOW.

If you do, let me know! I'd be more than happy to show you around and stuff.

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Another vote for Docs! When I start to get bored with them, I just dress them up with oil paint. (I'd stay away from the matte red leather ones, though -- in person, they're an ugly greyish maroon.)

Also, I wouldn't describe them as "ass-kicking" -- I mean, in the sense that they're kind of pretty and girly -- but I've been wearing these (http://www.onlineshoes.com/productpage.asp?type=brand&brandid=40&brandcatid=744&ageid=1&gen=w&pcid=9849) every day for the last eight months.

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I am extraordinarily tempted by the Docs. But... I'd have to spend money! *torn* Yours are adorable, but possibly not hardcore enough for Chicago winter. I am probably going to end up biting the bullet and buying these (http://www.dmusastore.com/Detail.bok?no=2073).

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Hey, those are nice.

I just remembered something that has put me off buying Docs, though -- they don't have side-zippers, so depending on the style you choose, they can take a tremendously long time to fasten. In one extreme case, (a tall steel-toed affair with twenty eyelets and an easily disrupted detachable insole), I had to set aside an extra twenty minutes of shoe-fastening time if I wanted to wear them to work.

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vagabond (swedish footwear people) make amazing boots. sadly, they don't make my favourite pair any more - £70 worth of sort-of-motorbike boot, zippy sides, bouncy rubber solse, SO SO COMFY ans also kick-ass and generally wonderful, now falling apart after five years of wear. *mourns*

but flip-flops? in chicago? in october?!? your poor toes.

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I have two fabulous pairs of boots, one being a shorter pair which I wear for Outings, and the other being my Hooker Boots...but these were purchased at...um...Payless and Sears, as I am Cheap like you wouldn't believe....so I'm probably no help.

But if it makes you feel better, I'm wearing flip-flops today in Boston weather, not for lack of boots, but for lack of socks. I desperately need to do laundry. ^_^

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*is so with you on the socks thing*

I kept wearing flip flops in the rain because I had no socks. I actually fell on my ass right after going down the stairs in the train station because of them. *sigh*

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...oops.

Yeah, socks are a problem for me. Because I only wear black pants (or jeans with a black shirt), and do you have any idea how hard it is to find packages of all black women's socks? It should not be this difficult, people! Some of us do not want to spend our hard earned money on glaring white socks we will never wear! *is indignant*

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I gave up on flip flops last wednesday. It made me sad. Now what I need are socks.

I have tennis shoes, I have my "trudging through snow drifts" boots but I, too, kind of just need shoes that are taller than my tennis shoes, but not like, fleece lined-construction boots.

And OMG WTF I KNOW. It was COLD this morning. I put on my jackety jacket (you do have one of those, right? NJ types have those?) instead of just a sweatshirt.

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I just wear my hiking boots (http://www.academy.com/index.php?page=content&target=products/footwear/womens/hikers&start=0&selectedSKU=0557-03680-2668). These aren't actually the ones I own (the ones I own have gore tect or whatever which makes them more money). I think they were $90? But they were for christmas so I'm not positive.

I haven't have real snow type boots for ages and ages, even though there is, in fact, snow.

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Milla Jovovich has your absolute dream boots in Resident Evil: knee-high black leather, low heels, more streamlined than Docs.

This isn't very helpful, though, because I've been trying to find boots like hers for about a year and a half :O It seems like such a simple, easy-to-find style, and then when you WANT a pair--

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