A Day

I am on the lookout for new motorcycle boots. I used to wear Frye 12R harness boots (below) but this engineer style is quite heavy. After that I changed to Kavat boots, which wore out a few months ago. I need something that cover my ankles, are light enough to sit for hours on narrow pegs, and are comfortable.

I looked at the famous SkoUno in Gamla brogatan in Stockholm. They have everything from Solovair to Dr. Martens to every kind of cowboy boot and engineering boot you could ever imagine. I wore cowboy boots in the 1980s (I bought Tony Lama boots when I lived in the US), but they looked ridiculous (as did most 1980s fashion, on anyone, sadly), and were way too heavy, uncomfortable and noisy when you walked.

Stockholmers are not big on cowboy boots, even though you do see them now and then. I wonder who buys these? SkoUno have several hundred different styles. They also have cowboy hats and tooled belts.

A few stores down is a hat store, but not like an old-fashioned hat shop where your grandpa bought his hats. It seems this shop only sells baseball caps. I wonder how big that market is? Most other shops have baseball caps so maybe you would come here to find an unusual one or to have one personalised?

And over the road from that is a Kawaii store

Also in Gamla brogatan is a shop for ballet dancers, a wig store, a Red Wing shoe store, a goth/emo/clubbing type store, a store for blue-collar worker type clothes, and Jeans Uno, for jeans. If you are in Stockholm and tired of the Old Town, this street is really interesting.