[Market-farming] workshoes
Allan Balliett
aballiett at frontiernet.net
Fri May 22 07:36:32 EDT 2009
>>My brother turned me on to Timberland Pros for work boots. Steel
>>toed, but more comfortable than any other pair of shoes I have
>>owned. Expensive, in the range of $140, but last time I went shoe
>>shopping, I couldn't find anything else that felt anything like it.
I used to wear Timberland boots but the quality has come down very
much in the past 5 or 6 years. I used to get years of wear out of a
pair. My last pair only lasted a couple of months. We have a
Timberland store here. The salesman said to me 'Timberland sells to
high school kids nowadays. Most anything we sell is really only good
for walking in hallways. That includes the Pro stuff.' I see it at
Tractor Supply, but I'm not ready to try again, especially when they
are priced like real boots.
Which reminds me: I bought a pair of Columbia boots once. As long as
I owned them it felt like I'd put someone else's shoes on by
accident. Creepy! (They didn't hold up long, either.)
I had good luck with a pair of vasque but their current line is very
light weight.
I made a trip to the Red Wing store. Some nice boots there but, if
you can believe it, the salesman didn't want to measure my foot, even
though they do make many lines of boots that come in many sizes and
widths. The only way they could be worth the money, though, is if you
can take advantage of the 'real fit.'
-Allan in WV where he's pretty happy in a $89 pair of Merrels
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