But I'm getting more and more intrigued by the clothes the dudes in this Russian song/video are wearing:
https://youtu.be/0JQ0xnJyb0A
(look especially at the guys at the 2:50 mark)
... looks like linen tunic and trousers, tablet-woven belt, and medium-heavy cattleskin boots.
Leaving aside that that's a look that's just incredibly dashing on most guys..
![Mr. Green :mrgreen:](./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif)
It all seems very long-river / Lakemen were I to think of it in a "Tolkien" context, but my eyes keep going to those boots.... They don't at all fit my prior conception of a Dark-Ages-Britain look, but at the same time given that kind of thing was everywhere in '80s fantasy art so it does feel rather familiar.
More practically.... I've cheated and worn my barn muck boots on hikes and they worked surprisingly well until the rubber gave out. I'd have thought they'd slide and blister all over, but... nope.
I've been tempted to replace the rubber muckboots with leather ones someday, just to try the idea out properly.
Anyone played with boots like that in - say - WWI/WWII reenactments? If so, how would you say they were for the woods, compared to the turnshoe-based patterns we all seem to be drifting towards?
(For what it's worth, I still think the turnshoe approach is "right" for Eriador - this is more academic/woods-romping curiosity)