Vin doesn't really have a choice in what her "favorite" footwear is. She has one pair of boots. One. That's it. They're old, they're leather, and she treats them like she would her own child because they're precious to her.
Yeah, they're beaten up. Yeah, she's replaced the hook-and-loop tape in the straps probably a hundred times. But she's had them ever since her feet stopped growing because who the hell has the money to buy them more than once?