Soooo, I finally broke down and got Troopa in dark green. The colour, I adore. The shape is pretty good. I got them from Amazon, and they were on sale, but still more than I wanted to pay, so I’m sending them back. Since I know they fit, I found them for $30 less on eBay. Which…allowed me to buy another pair of tan combat boots. Why? Because I finally found out the name of the MIA combat boots that I got in black and tan last year, and that I looooooove. The style is from the same time as Buckley (I guessed that), and it’s called Bedford. I have black and tan, and although they’ve been sold out everywhere for ages, I know they came in a distressed brown (probably the same colour as my brown Buckley), and I think they may also have come in a sort of ivory that I’d really never wear. Anyway, I found a tan pair on eBay, and they’ve got a couple of little scuffs, so I’m going to try dyeing them brown. I was going to buy Troopa in brown, now that I know they don’t run small like my SM clogs (if anything, Troopa runs a little large), but I like the shape of Bedford waaaay better than Troopa, and I think the tan will dye nicely to a medium-dark brown. Anyway, since they’ve apparently disappeared off the face of the earth with the exception of a couple of pairs on ebay…

MIA Bedford:

SM Troopa in green (this is pretty accurate as far as the actual colour). I like them, but I don’t like them worth what I paid for them from Amazon. I like them worth what they cost on eBay…though they’d damned straight better be the real thing and not some crappy knock-off with nylon zippers.