On the 6th Day of XMAS my stalkers should leave on my doorstep Trippen boots

A hiatus from my shopping picks for the holiday season was necessitated by my actual Christmas shopping. The gifts I managed to pick up will likely make their way onto this list - which will be kept better up to date, I promise. My Christmas gift to you.

So what am I particularly jonesing for on this midway point of my Christmas countdown? Trippen boots. I just very recently became acquainted with Trippen, a shoe company out of Germany, while I hunted with my mother for the perfect pair of over-the-knee boots that was a belated-birthday-early-Christmas present, never to be wrapped, and to be worn and assimilated as my own the moment we get home, as has become the status quo with my holiday gifts. The company was first established in Berlin in 2005, and has gone on to open stores in Great Britain, Israel, Taiwan and Japan, and has been nominated for and won a number of international awards for design. Not only are their shoes visually interesting, they focus on using quality materials (a year after launching their first store location they were nominated for the Baden-Württemberg International Design Award, which apparently held Longevity as its theme). Furthermore, Trippen operates under the philosophy that "modern design [should] combine... environmental friendliness, sustainability and social responsibility." So a pretty cool company all in all. The line is available with four shoe retailers in Canada: Asphalt in Kelowna, Kaliyana, Dorfer Shoes in Toronto and, my personal favourite shoestore, Gravitypope.

Here are the pairs which are particularly catching my eye, and which may, in a number of hours, become mine.

Trippen Best bootie | $470.00CAD at Gravitypope

Trippen Bubble boot | $615.00$ CAD at Gravitypope

Trippen Rider boot | $575.00CAD at Gravitypope

Trippen Urban boot | $545.00 CAD at Gravitypope

This last pair, the Urbans, are on hold at Gravitypope's Calgary store for me right now. My grandma's birthday/Christmas cheque will buy me one boot - I am gifting myself the other.

Here are the pair which my mum and I settled on as my "Merry Birthday" gift:

Frye Taylor Over-the-Knee Boot | $548.00 CAD at Gravitypope (though, available much more inexpensively online, apparently...)

Also, I just discovered that in Edmonton and Vancouver, Gravitypope has clothing, or tailored goods, as they say. This is exciting as well as heartbreaking, given the mysterious absence of such an outlet in Calgary. At least I can follow their fashion blog. And, of course, their original shoe blog. Check it out.

If you do not think that the Trippen Urban boots and I should be united in blissful fashion matrimony, speak now or forever hold your peace.

Merry Christmas to me.