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AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
"Goodness me, the clock has struck, alackaday and f*ck my luck."
Badger_Boom
Veteran
- Location
- York
I thought it was only bad luck for new shoes?
Badger_Boom
Veteran
- Location
- York
Nice.
I've got a pair of black ones that I bought from the now long gone industrial footwear shop in Bradford in about 1993. I haven't worn them for years, but like you, I painted them. Mine have the cartoon devil and some other characters from a Levellers album cover. I'll have t dig them out and see what state they're in.
Oldhippy
Cynical idealist
Now you're talking! Boots that look like they are used. Can't be doing all the wakling mannequin outfits. No offence to those that have an aversion to wearing stuff that doesn't look fresh out the packet. 😁
AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
I like this from John Peel about Doc Martens:
https://peel.fandom.com/wiki/Dr_Martens_Air_Wair
I had that book at some point, dunno what happened to it.
winjim
Smash the cistern
It's been a long time since I wore DMs but I hear quality took a real hit when they moved production. I've got mates who've worn them for years but won't touch the new ones.
AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
Yep, this is true. My cousin got a newer pair and the soles pretty much dissolved after about a year. I'm planning on wearing mine until I die, as Iron Maiden would want.
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
I tried a pair on in a shop the other month. I can't remember exactly, but they were between £165 and £185(ish). I thought the 'leather' was more 'pleather' (plastic feeling leather) than quality feeling leather. Loake brought a DMs lookalike out 2 years ago. I might've bought a pair (in ox blood), but they were patent leather, so they'd probably be pleather feeling too.🤔
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Randomnerd
Bimbleur
- Location
- North Yorkshire
What any self respecting, practical boot ought to look like.
William Lennon 78C. They make mine with extra screws in the soles, and a few handfuls of rivets to supplement the stitching.
These were brand new in August.
William Lennon also made my best boots - kip leather, so almost suede, with full hobnail sole and quarter plate steel heels. Trotting around a cobbled town after a few ales i am a thing of beauty to behold - the illegitimate son of a sad tryst between Jane Torville and Max Wall.
Disparaging remarks about baseball cap and beanie wearers is cappist and beanyist and as a mature person and habitual wearer of such headgear, I reserve my right to call you out OP. Wind your neck in about the sartorial choices of other. A deer stalker does not set you apart; it merely serves to make you look like you want to be seen differently.
Clothes are political, social and cultural devices. They are mundane and at once seriously important. My tribe - wallers and outdoor workers - survive by what we wear. But also get kudos once are boots are through or out coat done.
My tribe has also become sick of hipsters appropriating our stuff. In the street in workwear, cracking on they're a french labourer or a peasant.
If you're interested, I wear new work gear as best first, and then it gets to hang with the real workwear once it has worn out for dinner parties, the ballet, soirees in Monaco etc.
Among the best and hardest wearing gear is Cactus Industrial clothing from New Zealand. I save for a parcel for say 5 years. There's no UK made stuff that hasn't seen prices skyrocket because of the Monty Don effect.
Darcy Clothing make clothes for the theatre, but do a good line in peasant shirts and high waist corduroys.
Ullfrotte Woolpower make the best warm gear for undergarments. And excellent beanies, each with the makers name embroidered on the label a la Carradice.
Community Clothing - the outfit started by Saville Row's very own Patrick Grant - make exclusively UK gear, at a good price, paying a fair wage.
I get a Gloverall submariners jumper every few years once the old one is worn or shrunk. They used to make the proper duffel, but have sold out to designer influences.
When I'm flush, I'll get the ladies at Flamborough to knit me a gansey.
...seems I'm more interested in clobber than I first thought. Anyone needing info on the waterproofedness of Ridgeline or the abrasion resistance of Guy Cotten, just dm
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winjim
Smash the cistern
Some genuinely good advice on this thread? It'll never catch on. That Gloverall stuff looks nice and I'm down with the Community Clothing ethos. Not too sure about Darcy though, having looked at it. This thread's drifted far enough into dress up for now.View attachment 631756
What any self respecting, practical boot ought to look like.
William Lennon 78C. They make mine with extra screws in the soles, and a few handfuls of rivets to supplement the stitching.
These were brand new in August.
William Lennon also made my best boots - kip leather, so almost suede, with full hobnail sole and quarter plate steel heels. Trotting around a cobbled town after a few ales i am a thing of beauty to behold - the illegitimate son of a sad tryst between Jane Torville and Max Wall.
Disparaging remarks about baseball cap and beanie wearers is capping and beaniest, and as a mature person and habitual wearer of such headgear, I reserve my right to call you out OP. Wind your neck in about the sartorial choices of other. A deer stalker does not set you apart; it merely serves to make you look like you want to be seen differently.
Clothes are political, social and cultural devices. They are mundane and at once seriously important. My tribe - wallers and outdoor workers - survive by what we wear. But also get kudos once are boots are through or out coat done.
My tribe has also become sick of hipsters appropriating our stuff. In the street in workwear, cracking on they're a french labourer or a peasant.
If you're interested, I wear new work gear as best first, and then it gets to hang with the real workwear once it has worn out for dinner parties, the ballet, soirees in Monaco etc.
Among the best and hardest wearing gear is Cactus Industrial clothing from New Zealand. I save for a parcel for say 5 years. There's no UK made stuff that hasn't seen prices skyrocket because of the Monty Don effect.
Darcy Clothing make clothes for the theatre, but do a good line in peasant shirts and high waist corduroys.
Ullfrotte Woolpower make the best warm gear for undergarments. And excellent beanies, each with the makers name embroidered on the label a la Carradice.
Community Clothing - the outfit started by Saville Row's very own Patrick Grant - make exclusively UK gear, at a good price, paying a fair wage.
I get a Gloverall submariners jumper every few years once the old one is worn or shrunk. They used to make the proper duffel, but have sold out to designer influences.
When I'm flush, I'll get the ladies at Flamborough to knit me a gansey.
...seems I'm more interested in clobber than I first thought. Anyone needing info on the waterproofedness of Ridgeline or the abrasion resistance of Guy Cotten, just dm
Re hats, it's all flat caps round here. I do like to wear a beanie in winter but any other type of hat would just make me look like a bit of a self-gratification artist so I usually don't bother.
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grldtnr
Über Member
Them boots worn in yet?View attachment 631756
What any self respecting, practical boot ought to look like.
William Lennon 78C. They make mine with extra screws in the soles, and a few handfuls of rivets to supplement the stitching.
These were brand new in August.
William Lennon also made my best boots - kip leather, so almost suede, with full hobnail sole and quarter plate steel heels. Trotting around a cobbled town after a few ales i am a thing of beauty to behold - the illegitimate son of a sad tryst between Jane Torville and Max Wall.
Disparaging remarks about baseball cap and beanie wearers is capping and beaniest, and as a mature person and habitual wearer of such headgear, I reserve my right to call you out OP. Wind your neck in about the sartorial choices of other. A deer stalker does not set you apart; it merely serves to make you look like you want to be seen differently.
Clothes are political, social and cultural devices. They are mundane and at once seriously important. My tribe - wallers and outdoor workers - survive by what we wear. But also get kudos once are boots are through or out coat done.
My tribe has also become sick of hipsters appropriating our stuff. In the street in workwear, cracking on they're a french labourer or a peasant.
If you're interested, I wear new work gear as best first, and then it gets to hang with the real workwear once it has worn out for dinner parties, the ballet, soirees in Monaco etc.
Among the best and hardest wearing gear is Cactus Industrial clothing from New Zealand. I save for a parcel for say 5 years. There's no UK made stuff that hasn't seen prices skyrocket because of the Monty Don effect.
Darcy Clothing make clothes for the theatre, but do a good line in peasant shirts and high waist corduroys.
Ullfrotte Woolpower make the best warm gear for undergarments. And excellent beanies, each with the makers name embroidered on the label a la Carradice.
Community Clothing - the outfit started by Saville Row's very own Patrick Grant - make exclusively UK gear, at a good price, paying a fair wage.
I get a Gloverall submariners jumper every few years once the old one is worn or shrunk. They used to make the proper duffel, but have sold out to designer influences.
When I'm flush, I'll get the ladies at Flamborough to knit me a gansey.
...seems I'm more interested in clobber than I first thought. Anyone needing info on the waterproofedness of Ridgeline or the abrasion resistance of Guy Cotten, just dm
Just asking.
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
It seems that you're having a go at me, but maybe you should see who started this thread. It wasn't me.
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Randomnerd
Bimbleur
- Location
- North Yorkshire
With sixty of the two hundred and odd posts attributed to you, @wafter will no doubt forgive me.
And yes, I find your commentary on others’ clothes choices very boring - I’m uncertain what qualifies you to be our resident sartorial expert.
winjim
Smash the cistern
Hyperfixation.
