Angling for Aigles

Le Riding

The English have their Wellies and the Germans their Hessian boots. The French have evolved a slightly more elegant, streamlined take on the knee-high riding boot, popular since Napoleon donned them.

Note the signature burgundy-colored cuffs

They were de rigueur for any wind-swept-haired, high-necked scarved, waistcoated French Dandy.
In the 1850's the technology of using rubber in manufacturing was new and exciting: the Aigle boot was born in France and within four years the company was producing, by hand, 14,000 pairs of boots per day. They remain the crème de la crème of rubber boots. They are also the only rubber boots I've seen that can be mistaken for leather--never shiny, very rich looking. The cuffs are lined in leather and the insides are soft and cushy.

Me, I'll be wearing mine with slim trousers and trying my best to channel Tilda Swinton in the above scene from Orlando. You can join me--we will be stocking the boots for the Holidays. Put them on your wishlist now!