3 reasons why wearing combat boots make you a badass

Maybe you think it’s gauche or simply too much—but combat boots are such a brilliant fit for these fashion times.

Now is a period of flux, where women are rising up and securing their proper place atop the equitable heights of this economy. Now is a time of tearing down old rotten patriarchal structures and building the female future.

Above all, now is the time for direct and in-charge women. Which means combat boots are the ultimate fashion too for making you a total badass.

Let’s examine a few reasons why:

Literally you look like a warrior

That’s the major theme this season: you need to be a warrior in this cultural moment. You need to make your strength and your badassness irrefutable in the eyes of reactionary catcallers and pigeonholing bosses. Wearing combat boots signals that you are not to be messed with, and you need every psychological edge on your side. Not only that, but the security you feel when wearing a pair of combat boots can radiate across your whole outlook. Just try to feel looked down upon when wearing a platform pair of badass pavement-stompers. No one can stop you when you’re wearing combat boots, not even your own self-doubt.

You look better in them than actual soldiers anyway

While combat boots are traditionally more of a men’s thing—you definitely pull them off a lot more. First of all, men’s combat boots barely have any style to them at all, and that’s not even half as bad as the men wearing them currently. You’re using combat boots as a statement of your individual relevance while traditionally combat boots were used as a tool to diminish individuality.

Furthermore, while you are signaling your individual glory in wearing combat boots, you’re also announcing solidarity to your fellow female soldiers in the struggle for equality. Everywhere you are, if someone else is wearing combat boots also, then you’ve got a squad. Don’t forget that this struggle is not merely individual, but a group effort to look badass while securing your place in the fashion pantheon

You are impervious to the elements

There’s no need to run through the rain in combat boots. There’s no need to fear the snow when you’re in combat boots. When you’re wearing a well-built pair of combat boots, the elements bow to you. Nothing says you’re a badass more than casually drifting through whatever storm this garbage season of winter will throw at you. Nothing will make you feel more badass than more watching feeble fashioned folks scurry and race through a winter storm while you gracefully glide to the office. Sometimes cool guys walk away from explosions without looking, but even cooler women never appear to be affected by the weather.

Ultimately, combat boots make you feel like a badass more than anything. And if you feel like a badass, you’re going to behave like one. Do that long enough and people will start treating you like a badass. Then the virtuous cycle repeats and eventually you’ll find yourself on top, the world beneath you and your combat boots. Heck yes.