Reducing the shaft circumference on Engineer boots

[Vintagestyle]

When I went into the Frye store in NYC, they didn't even have engineers. Amazing to me cuz Frye were always what I thought of as engineers...the good old ones....

Frye was famous more for their Harness boots and others based on these and the cavalry boots made in the 1870's , more than for their engineer boots ,although they manufactures many boots based on those desins for years !
If you look at the many boots they proposed in their 70's catalog , what they propose today is a joke !
And their boots quality was much better back then or even before 2003 ,when they closed their original plant and when they sold the company to a Chinese company ! Lol
So yes, now the famous Frye Harness and Cavalry boots are made by a Chinese company who gives shit about American tradition and Iconic Boots and who only cares for the cash and the money they can distribute to their Share Holders !
Half of their Harness boots ( the very few models they still manufacture whereas they used to make dozens of different ones) are not even goodyear welted anymore !!
Now they are fashionnistas boots , not Bikers and rugged ( leather being thinner ) boots anymore !

I suspect and fear Chippewa becomes the same cause their decisions to stop manufacturing their most iconic boots and stop manufacturing some others in USA is a poor decision that will reflect in their sales at a moment when they will be forgotten for what they were once !
Letting down many of the customers that supported them for many years ,buying their boots is a really bad idea i think !