Monkey boots in Sheffield

[banjodeano]

Can anyone tell me if they can be purchased in Sheffield.?

[the_rudeboy]

Think I saw DM monkey boots in Schuh.

[banjodeano]

Think I saw DM monkey boots in Schuh.

Thanks for the post, but i was after the Grafters originals...may have to get them online, but wanted to try them on first

Thanks

[the_rudeboy]

Thanks for the post, but i was after the Grafters originals...may have to get them online, but wanted to try them on first

Thanks

 

The DM ones are rather minty and do lack the traditional monkey boot style.

 

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Have you tried Jay Jays on London Road ?

[banjodeano]

No i haven't, will give them a call tomorrow thanks

[medusa]

We gave up trying to find them and bought online instead.

[banjodeano]

We gave up trying to find them and bought online instead.

 

the thing is....you really need to try them on Medusa, the sizes seem to be all over the place these days...did you get lucky with the sizes?

[FIRETHORN1]

Oooh! monkey boots! This brings back some memories! I used to absolutely love my monkey boots as a young teenager in the early 70's!

 

The tradition at the time was to spray them with metallic paint - silver if you were a Wednesday fan and gold if you were a United fan. (Mine were silver). We would then strut about wearing them with our "Skinners" - sort of baggy-legged jeans, with turn-ups, worn at half-mast, displaying about 6 inches of colourful horizontally-striped sock between the top of your monkey boot and the beginning of the bottom of your trouser leg. (A bit like "The Bay City Rollers" - but even worse)!

 

I remember that my mum and dad would cringe at the sight of me and be embarrassed to be seen in the streets with me. Looking back, I'm not surprised -we must have looked absolutely ridiculous - but at the time, all my mates and I dressed the same and we thought we were the biz!

 

Then again, at various points in my formative years I also wore Sta-Prest, Ben Sherman's, Fred Perry's.... a Trevira skirt, a "tonic" suit.... Oxford bags, high-waisters, platform shoes with six inch heels and four inch platforms..... glitter nail-polish and iridescent eye-shadow.

 

The 70's was certainly the decade that fashion forgot....but it was also huge, enormous fun....as I recall it. Eeeeh - those were the days!

:D:D

[medusa]

the thing is....you really need to try them on Medusa, the sizes seem to be all over the place these days...did you get lucky with the sizes?

 

My OH is between sizes anyway, so he orders a size larger and then just inserts the appropriate number of insoles so that they fit.

[Mecky]

TK Maxx sometimes have them in. Personally I prefer dessies which are more comfortable