Boots / shoes to wear with your flight jacket s...

[FlakMagnet]

Speaking of Corcorans

 

[Smithy]

Wear these almost every day, very happy with them, comfortable and indestructible....

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Best looking service shoes I have seen in regards to colour, finishing and patina.

Godt jobba!

 

[Chandler]

Speaking of Corcorans

Saw his review when it first hit -- it would be nice to be able to nail down a production timeline for Corcoran and when they may have (or have not) changed their production process.

I'd like to know if mine (a few years older than this pair) are constructed similarly.

Nonetheless, mine are pretty sturdy and I doubt will crumble any time soon.

 

[B-Man2]

Wear these almost every day, very happy with them, comfortable and indestructible....

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Who makes the garrison boots ?

 

[ZuZu]

It is exactly the Goodyear welt that allows you to resole and resole and resole - and then re-welt and resole and resole and resole your boots. So not exactly a couple of years - rather a couple of decades.

Yes I know all that- in fact back when there were corner shoe repair places I'd do it. But a couple of decades? Not if you're actually wearing them doing construction. The leather on the toe goes away. They crack and wear out- like shoes do.

It is exactly the Goodyear welt that allows you to resole and resole and resole - and then re-welt and resole and resole and resole your boots. So not exactly a couple of years - rather a couple of decades.

Sure if you only wear them walking around and you mollycoddle them with salves and potions! I used to wear boots out- toe cap gone- rotten leather- stained and ugly. I think it's the IDEA that you can resole that makes it a thing. The quality boots are a thing like jackets- I'm an Avirex lambskin type guy when it comes to boots

 

[tjoenn]

Best looking service shoes I have seen in regards to colour, finishing and patina.

Godt jobba!

Takk skal du ha!!

 

[tjoenn]

Who makes the garrison boots ?

At the Front, but unfortunately the contractor stopped making them. I'm thinking of getting another pair if they still have my size in stock.

 

[JonnyCrow]

At the Front, but unfortunately the contractors stopped making them. I'm thinking of getting another pair if they still have my size in stock.

ATF used to make or sell decent rough out boots

 

[Harris_HTM]

Not if you're actually wearing them doing construction

True, I should have mentioned that I was referring to normal use, and not construction. However, at least here, at construction you need specific kind of workboots, according to the standard EN ISO 20345. Which means neither Aldens, nor Blundstones.

and you mollycoddle them with salves and potions

Being an engineer involved in big infrastructural projects and owning "real" safety boots, I can assure you that waxing them regularly prevents the leather from cracking and helps it with waterproofing.

I think it's the IDEA that you can resole that makes it a thing

No, at least for me. I have resoled boots and dress shoes many times, if they were cemented when the sole was worn out I'd have to throw them away.

 

[Chandler]

No, at least for me. I have resoled boots and dress shoes many times, if they were cemented when the sole was worn out I'd have to throw them away.

Same here. I'm on my third set of Vibram soles on my Danner Explorers (though stitchdown, not Good Year welt) and the rest of the boots are still going strong -- with a couple "mollycoddling*" treatments a year.

*It's called caring for an investment.

 

[Harris_HTM]

*It's called caring for an investment.

Absolutely.

 

[Chandler]

ATF used to make or sell decent rough out boots

I have a pair from the last import run before they started using the US manufacturer -- they're just okay.

Maybe that US factory (who bailed on contract orders) was making good boots, but they were definitely pricier than ATF's older stuff.

Get what'cha pay for, no?

 

[JonnyCrow]

I have a pair from the last import run before they started using the US manufacturer -- they're just okay.

Maybe that US factory (who bailed on contract orders) was making good boots, but they were definitely pricier than ATF's older stuff.

Get what'cha pay for, no?

Yep I'm talking about the older boots, I had a pair from at least 15 years ago

 

[JonnyCrow]

I have a pair from the last import run before they started using the US manufacturer -- they're just okay.

Maybe that US factory (who bailed on contract orders) was making good boots, but they were definitely pricier than ATF's older stuff.

Get what'cha pay for, no?

A lot of us here Chandler buy these, Spanish leather, rubber soles, full tongue and only cost 40 euros, can get them this finish or rough out

 

[JonnyCrow]

A lot of us here Chandler buy these, Spanish leather, rubber soles, full tongue and only cost 40 euros, can get them this finish or rough outView attachment 95501

 

[Chandler]

A lot of us here Chandler buy these, Spanish leather, rubber soles, full tongue and only cost 40 euros, can get them this finish or rough outView attachment 95501

Not a bad looking boot. I like the lining -- is it lined to the toe?

My ATF roughouts are 8 years old -- very minimal in construction and rather weak leather. Then again, and based on the Rose Anvil video of the double buckles (which don't appear to be G.I., anyway), the construction is probably pretty common.

 

[JonnyCrow]

Not a bad looking boot. I like the lining -- is it lined to the toe?

My ATF roughouts are 8 years old -- very minimal in construction and rather weak leather. Then again, and based on the Rose Anvil video of the double buckles (which don't appear to be G.I., anyway), the construction is probably pretty common.

Lined all the way, everything stitched also, they seem to sell a lot of them too, these are the rough out style, just saw, on offer at 38 euros

 

[Chandler]

Trenton & Heath take apart a pair of ATF service shoes.

No telling what vintage the boots are -- there's a minor attempt to research ATF, but they obviously haven't followed ATF over the years. Owner claims these were made in Mexico, but I don't remember ATF ever sourcing through there.

Gonna bump this post I made at the beginning of the month for anyone wanting to see inside an ATF boot.

I'm guessing that, since the soles needed replacing, these are older -- import, ATF service shoes.

 

[JonnyCrow]

Not a bad looking boot. I like the lining -- is it lined to the toe?

My ATF roughouts are 8 years old -- very minimal in construction and rather weak leather. Then again, and based on the Rose Anvil video of the double buckles (which don't appear to be G.I., anyway), the construction is probably pretty common.

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[JonnyCrow]

Not a bad looking boot. I like the lining -- is it lined to the toe?

My ATF roughouts are 8 years old -- very minimal in construction and rather weak leather. Then again, and based on the Rose Anvil video of the double buckles (which don't appear to be G.I., anyway), the construction is probably pretty common.

Sorry offered here at 34.99, believe me I live near woods and field hiking and walking the dogs and I've worn mine through everything, best pair of budget boots I own now