I ask the question boots or shoes? Admittedly I wear boots not that I have a thing about my height, as they usually tend to add an inch or 2 to your height. But I tend to find boots are more comfortable than shoes.
The other thing is that your boots last almost ages instead of wearing a pair of shoes you have to polish almost every night.
Now before I stick on a pair of ex-german uniform boots and parade up and down Aberdeen, I would like to add a point...
When did brown/tanned shoe boots come into fashion for blokes? As guranteed on a night out with the lads, every bloke (apart from me and my friends) is almost wearing these huge ankled boots that are 2 sizes too big for them and a jumper as well that a golfer wouldn't be seen dead in.... is this a new craze like roller blades??
