L Map There's a fine line between chic and kitsch, but this upmarket steakhouse manages to walk it, even in clunky boots and slightly tacky staff outfits.

"It wouldn't be fair for us to let a designer sit in his showroom with his clunky boots when we're thinking stillettos," she said.

The next user was a young girl in baggy jeans and huge, clunky boots.

I have to wear these big clunky boots.

The trendier way is to go for clunky versions of work boots or hiking boots, which Karl Lagerfeld used in his fall couture collection for Chanel.

If one is encumbered by clunky boots, skis and poles, an escalator is a godsend.

Phoebe refrained from comment, trooping to the door in her clunky boots.

David Bowie, that fey chameleon of pop music, has metamorphosed into a giggly middle-aged man in clunky boots and an oversize sweatshirt.

Are all the models in Paris wearing suffragette high-laced shoes or clunky boots on the runway?

I did a film called 'The Brothers Bloom,' and I wore really clunky boots - and I was this eccentric weirdo.