Chukka versus Chelsea, the Showdown

[Bhowie]

Originally Posted by gdl203

Chukkas are a very specific type of derby boots, generally a plain toe and have one or two eyelets.

The boot on the left here is a derby boot but not a chukka

I thought chukka had more to do with an ankle high boot that is lace up. Isn't that derby higher than a chukka? They make chukka work boots that look nothing like the SF chukka, but they are both ankle high lace ups.

 

[benjamin831]

Laces gives it more flexibility, i.e. tight or loose.

I'll have to go for chukkas.

 

[PocketCircle]

From a blog another member found.

 

[agavilanes]

You dont have to choose. G&G has an hybrid...

 

[gdl203]

Originally Posted by PocketCircle

From a blog another member found.

Tell me someone played with Photoshop here. Even DocHolliday would be horrified

 

[teddieriley]

Couldn't help posting these again. Wearing them for the first time today with jeans. Looks damn good. Oh, my vote is for Chelseas.

 

[Get Smart]

Originally Posted by Parker

No laces to bother with and I like the uninterrupted expanse of leather.


Chelsea > Chukka......tho the uninterrupted expanse of leather bugs me a bit so I like chelseas with a bit of brogueing, wingtip or a captoe...something to break it up.

but a good ol fashioned Doc Marten boot will stomp over either and emerge victorious, or be banished to Valhalla

 

[sho'nuff]

chukka are at both ends of the formality spectrum with chelsea right in between. imo.


you have a chukka that is very informal looking, gunboaty and worn to work in the barns and stacking hay.

you have the sleeker chelseas (usually best in black) and can be worn with standard business dressy affair and suits.

then you have the very elegantly created chukka dress boots, that in my mind, are the apex of elegance in bootwear with formal dress.

 

[sho'nuff]

Originally Posted by teddieriley

Couldn't help posting these again. Wearing them for the first time today with jeans. Looks damn good. Oh, my vote is for Chelseas.

GOTTDAMM!!

what is the make of these??? look at that line from the throat down the arch to the toe. sick!!

 

[gdl203]

Originally Posted by sho'nuff

then you have the very elegantly created chukka dress boots, that in my mind, are the apex of elegance in bootwear with formal dress.

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[sho'nuff]

Originally Posted by gdl203

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i said then you have the very elegantly created chukka dress boots, that in my mind, are the apex of elegance in bootwear with formal dress.

 

[gdl203]

Originally Posted by sho'nuff

i said then you have the very elegantly created chukka dress boots, that in my mind, are the apex of elegance in bootwear with formal dress.

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Thanks for clarifying. Any pictures of such formal chukka boots? You know, the ones that are the apex of elegance in bootwear with formal dress

 

[awxg]

Originally Posted by sho'nuff

GOTTDAMM!!

what is the make of these??? look at that line from the throat down the arch to the toe. sick!!

I believe they are G&G.

 

[sho'nuff]

Originally Posted by gdl203

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Thanks for clarifying. Any pictures of such formal chukka boots? You know, the ones that are the apex of elegance in bootwear with formal dress

not really. i believe vass U last and a bespoke scafora model i ve seen somewhere were that apex of elegance in bootwear with formal dress.

 

[Douglas]

Originally Posted by gdl203

Chukkas are a very specific type of derby boots, generally a plain toe and have one or two eyelets.

The boot on the left here is a derby boot but not a chukka

...aaaaaand it just made me nut in my pants.