New Shell Cordovan Wolverine 1000 Mile Boots

[Deleted member 16736]

Expensive. Yes. Impressive. Yes. Excessive? You decide.

http://www.orvis.com/store/product....ID=936737718&gclid=CLLIv8G0rKoCFcLr7QodY0y4_g

 

[MikePotts]

Impressive certainly, excessive?.....well, sometimes only the very best will do. Expensive?, for me certainly but pocket change for some.

 

[HodgePodge]

I likely won't ever be in a position to afford boots like these, so my opinion doesn't really count for much, but I don't see anything excessive about investing in quality. If those boots lasted 10 years, that would amount to about 70 dollars per year. My last pair of leather boots cost 180, and didn't even last two winters without being worn inbetween.

So, people can either be content to shell out a hundred bucks or more on something that is expected to disintegrate so you have to buy another pair in a year or two, or you can pay - albeit "out the nose" - for something that was built a) to last and b) to be repaired.

The older I get, the more I want to be rich not so I can have the ferrari I always dreamt of, but so I can use my money to escape the "manufactured obsolesence" and manufactured junk.

 

[Flipped Lid]

Nice, but for that kind of money, I'm not buying Wolverines. I'm going for a pair of Aldens instead.

 

[SteveAS]

Expensive. Yes. Impressive. Yes. Excessive? You decide.

http://www.orvis.com/store/product....ID=936737718&gclid=CLLIv8G0rKoCFcLr7QodY0y4_g

With shell cordovan uppers, which will wear like iron, the fairly light-weight soles seem out of place. I'd find them more appealing (though not appealing enough to buy at $725) if their soles were about twice as thick.