Kanye red wing boots
Nas and Tupac’s fondness for Carhartt helped turn it into a brand that now does collaborations with Commes des Garçons’ Junya Watanabe.īut there is something novel about the recognizable specificity of the “Kanye boots,” which are now Googled to within an inch of their life.
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Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube paired $40 Dickies sets with $40,000 chains. Jay-Z played a role in bringing Timberlands from construction sites to private rooms at Nobu. West is not much of a pioneer here: sartorial trappings of heavy labor have been elevated to desirable streetwear by rappers and hip-hop stars who predate College Dropout by more than a decade. Dubbed “Spongebob boots” upon their debut at a benefit concert with Drake on December 10, the now-discontinued pair look like what you might imagine a fireman would wear on an emergency call to the North Pole, prompting my boyfriend to quip: “OSHA-approved, he could work night shift at the well.” That made it somewhat surprising to see Kanye West repeatedly photographed over the past month in stiff, paint-flecked dungarees, a plain hoodie, and vintage Red Wing 3094 work boots. In this extensively fracked corner of the country, this uniform signifies a particular identity: a man who works in oil and gas, and works hard. He might object to this characterization, but he probably won’t. He is a likely candidate for a bar fight. His purchase is usually Skoal and an energy drink in a neon-patterned can the size of a newborn.
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The boots are not clean, which is a point of pride, and he wears a heavy canvas jacket with reflective cuffs and collar over a large, worn-in hoodie. He steps down from a new pickup with 48 inch tires, and the feet that hit the ground are encased in heavy work boots: Ariats, Red Wings, or Wolverines.
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If you spend a day at any gas station between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, you are pretty much guaranteed to see a certain type of man.