Walking boots are set to be the key footwear trend for autumn/winter 2010/11

By Hilary Alexander, Fashion Director at Milan Fashion Week Published: 11:35AM GMT twenty-seven February 2010

Previous of Images Next Walking-style boots on the catwalk at Sportmax (left) and Burberry. Centre: Tod"s have constructed an endless range of styles for subsequent winter Photo: APF/ EPA Pollini autumn/winter 2010/11

Members of the Ramblers Association might be astounded to find that for the initial time in the 70-year story of the organisation, they are in step with the catwalks.

Walking boots have desirous the must-have shoes for subsequent autumn/winter.

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Styled in suede, board and tanned hide and, generally, with the requisite, corrugated, rubber soles they are covering the area in the engineer shows from New York to London to Milan.

They finished a short coming at New York, majority patently at Michael Kors, the jet set engineer who called them "ruggedly sexy". They were a tie of London Fashion Week, where models walked in tough-chic, walking-style boots, flashy with sheepskin, at Pringle, and in somewhat some-more sophisticated, multi-buckled styles, at Burberry Prorsum.

Now, at Milan Fashion Week, "walking boots" are the idealisation "lust-haves". At Sportmax, they came in multi-colours, with technical lace-up sum and ridged, rubber soles.

Tods, the de luxe Italian shoe brand, however, has since them the idealisation sign of approval. Its autumn/winter collection, denounced yesterday, featured at slightest a dozen opposite variations on the on foot boot.

The prosaic styles might be now recognizable to any rambler, equipped, as they are, with any series of unsentimental details, from the padded anklets, to the steel eyelets, to the soundness of the practical, ridged, rubber soles.

But I cant suppose carrying finished Wainwrights Coast to Coast in the some-more extreme, four-inch, stack-heeled, platform-rubber variations in lead tanned hide and suede even though the soles see as difficult as old boots.

Tods has even finished a shoe-boot and a justice shoe, finish with quilted ankle-cuffs and with the walkers prime rubber sole. Perfect for civic puddles, even though they might not have it from Patterdale to Shap.