Kenan
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Congrats on the boots my friend! Can’t wait to see them worn in!Now I need to start wearing these hard, get them to look like Kenan's pair.
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Congrats on the boots my friend! Can’t wait to see them worn in!Now I need to start wearing these hard, get them to look like Kenan's pair.
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I can relate to what you're saying when it comes to ultra fancy 'work boots', like a pair of shell cordovan White Clouds for instance. You don't want expensive shiny shell cordovan to get scuffed. But imo boots of that level are basically dress shoes on a work boot last. They're not work boots.but deliberately exposing them to manual labor is unthinkable to me because let's face it; That's not what they're made for, not anymore. The fine, shiny leather will scuff, they'll get all deformed, et cetera and there's absolutely no reason subjecting $300-$2000 footwear to this kind of punishment, only to later on spend ridiculous amount of time and money, trying to get them back in shape again.
But I can't think of a single reason why I should NOT deliberately expose a pair of sturdy horsebutt engineers to manual labor. I've worn my Attractions when I was helping a friend move. I wear them when laying on the garage floor working on my Vespa and I wear them when going for a walk through the dunes. Why? Because that's what they are made for.
I agree wholeheartedly with this post. Any voluntary activity that can deeply gouge leather on my White's semi-dress is out of bounds. That includes moving furniture. Or digging up a garden with a shovel. You get my drift. I will put on my old Timberlands for that. I guess that makes my Timberlands my work boots and my White's my casual/semi-dress (bad pun intended) boots.I would have agreed a few months back but I was wearing the above Sendras, which are probably the shittiest boots I own, while helping a friend fix an attic and while they served me just fine as we were working, when he was driving me home, my foot got caught on a car seat rail which sliced clean a piece of leather off the tip of the boot.
Not that it bothered me much but that could've happened to my Vetements or SLP's which would have really ruined my day and possibly, life.
Up to that point, whenever I'd clean & condition these Sendras, despite the heavy creases, they always turned out looking fantastic (IMO) but now that they're actually damaged, I'm inclined to wear them less than before.
I guess this is strictly subjective but while I love the look of worn-out, creased & even deformed boots, I don't like seeing actual damage on 'em.
how many of us actually wear them as they were originally intended?
That’s what I would have told you but we have seen a pretty wide variety of boots in this thread so I suppose it is somewhat in the eye of the beholder.what is work boots anyway? is that ankle boots with laces that is called work boots?
Nowadays, every shoe is a work shoe in one way or another. For different kinds of work.what is work boots anyway? is that ankle boots with laces that is called work boots?