What is your Boot Style?

[greeneyedgirl70]

another thread got me curious.

We all live all through out the United States and Canada, UK, ECT.... and i just want to know the style, name brand type boots you men wear.

Is it really so different from State to State to Country?

[NWoods_Hippie]

GEG70,

You forgot to put "whatever I find at the dump" boots! I have gotten the best three pairs of boots I own at the dump!!

Margie

[DaleK]

I wear whatever reasonably cheap, high, rubber-soled steel toes I can find in a size 13 here. Must be lots of small-footed people, usually I can only find them at Wally World. Usually last me a couple of seasons and then the hydraulic oil, liquid fertilizer, manure etc. catch up with them.

Get rubber boots wherever I can find them, with milking in tiestalls they last 6-8 weeks before they start splitting at the heels. Doesn't seem to matter if they're good or bad so I usually get the cheap ones at TSC

[greeneyedgirl70]

Originally Posted by NWoods_Hippie

GEG70,

You forgot to put "whatever I find at the dump" boots! I have gotten the best three pairs of boots I own at the dump!!

Margie

LOL@U Margie you always are so funny,I will remember nexttime i do a pole to add that, can i go back and add that?

hey for the record im a dumpster diver too.

[fordson major]

Originally Posted by DaleK

I wear whatever reasonably cheap, high, rubber-soled steel toes I can find in a size 13 here. Must be lots of small-footed people, usually I can only find them at Wally World. Usually last me a couple of seasons and then the hydraulic oil, liquid fertilizer, manure etc. catch up with them.

Get rubber boots wherever I can find them, with milking in tiestalls they last 6-8 weeks before they start splitting at the heels. Doesn't seem to matter if they're good or bad so I usually get the cheap ones at TSC

so thats why i can never find size 13 rubber boots!! nother cheapo rubber boot fan here, cheap ones last just as good as the spendy ones!

[FD2N4P]

ninewest!!!!!!!!!! hehehe.......sue

[greeneyedgirl70]

Just for the record guys, my husband is a size 13 also.

lol@uSue

[Katrina26]

I only buy my shoes in America. I'm not paying 60 euros (80 US thereabouts) for something I could get at Kmart for 20 bucks. I got Route 66 hiking boots for 20 bucks in Kmart and have used those since December. Work like a champ and are super sturdy. I got the men's boots.

Kat

[FD2N4P]

since i have move to ga. i have learned to wear other boots instead of ninewest! i like the redwing, but i have worn others size7. actually i have found some in the second hand stores that work well. thanks for allowing me to have some fun. since we have moved here i have put up my ninewest look!!!! all about sweats, jeans, t shirts, boots, tennis shoes! my 5th ave look is gone and thats okay!.....sue

[TennesseeMama23]

I wear Rocky workboots and Ariat dress/western boots, dh wears Danner (they are the only one he can wear--he has no arches and others kill his feet).

[bluesky]

I wear Doc Martens that I've had for 7 years for everyday and for hiking and a pair of cheap Target rubber boots for the wet and mud (which I've worn every day for almost the last month I got my Doc Martens when I was single and had more money than sense, but I love them.

My husband wears Cabelas waterproof hunting boots that we got on clearance this winter. He finally wore out his old Cabelas after 10 years.

[Murron]

Hiking boots are my staple. I just wore out a pair of 13 year old Vasque boots, and DH picked me up a beautiful pair of Merrell mountaineering boots a while ago. I'm *still* breaking them in, but that in itself is an art!

[TxCloverAngel]

my 15 yr old son wears a 16

[Ramblin Wreck]

Lace up boots, usally made by Vasque and usually lined with Goretex for protection from wet conditions.

[greeneyedgirl70]

Originally Posted by TxCloverAngel

my 15 yr old son wears a 16

WOW Dana, that boy has BIG feet!

[greeneyedgirl70]

What about LLBEAN Boots? any of you wear them?

[Quint]

In the winter and in cooler weather Matterhorns with composite toes and shank. They are iron tough, warm and very comfortable. Just an awesome boot. The pair I'm wearing now I've worn for..wow.. probably 14 years? Other than being scuffed they're like new.

In the summer I wear Hi-Tec Magnums. They're inexpensive, comfortable and reasonably rugged. They're nothing like the Matterhorns but they're still tough as nails. The last pair I replaced were still in good shape but I ripped the side out in a bit of an accident. They probably had several years left if I wouldn't have torn them.

I wear a 15 and it is hard to get "cheap" boots in that size. It's easier now though than it was back when I was in high school. The younger kids seem to have bigger feet. I was an aberration in high school now I know kids that wear 16 and even a 17.

Oh and as for Red Wings, I've been less than impressed. I've had a couple of pairs and they're just not all they're hyped to be. I wore out one pair on a job where I walked a lot and the pair I bought to replace them I still have and never wear. They're not all that comfortable and they just don't last.

[Freeholder]

I voted Redwings, but it should have been multiple choice. I have a pair of Redwings (or a lookalike -- they are in the back of my closet right now and I'm not going to dig them out to see!), but in the winter I mostly use my Sorels. In spring and fall, when it's wet and muddy out, I use rubber barn boots -- got them at Walmart. In the summer a lot of the time I just wear my garden clogs. I get the work boots out when there's digging or construction or fire-wood getting to be done.

The Sorels are the cloth-top kind, and are wearing out already after only four years of moderate use -- I need to find a pair of the leather-top kind. The last pair of those I had lasted me twelve years, and I got them second-hand.

The garden clogs only seem to last a couple of years (heavy use) before they start splitting, but they don't cost nearly as much as a pair of Sorels. The rubber boots ditto. The work boots don't get used but a few times a year, and should last quite a while, a good thing, because they aren't cheap.

The best boots I ever had were a pair of hiking boots I got at a thrift shop for 25 cents! I don't remember what brand they were, but they looked like the kind that sell for well over a hundred dollars. And they fit like they were made for me. I wore those out, though, and haven't ever found any that good again.

Kathleen

[bjba]

Matterhorn boots in the winter and Corcoran during the warm seasons. I am hard on footwear and get years and years out of my Corcorans and Matterhorns.

[vicker]

I work in the log yard and deal with lots of mud. I tried all types but now wear steel toed, rubber muck boots.