I always recommend these to friends when they’re looking for a nice pair of dress shoes.
Nice shape, decent upper and color. For $60 you’d be hard pressed to find a better shoe.
I am really fond of The North Face’s Back To Berkley collection. These casual hikers are a really technical boot, but get lots of looks like a sneaker. They thing I like most is the fact that they’re really lightweight, but provide unreal support and protection. I have an insulated pair and wouldn’t hesitate to snatch up as many more as I can.
Got them cheap as chips in tokyo, for running around on the hills. So far surpassed my expectations. Grips well uphill and spares my forefoot downhill.
I had the same struggle with thesboots. I went with plain toe after my wife told me I don’t wear nice enough pants to pull off wingtips.
I miss those boots – unfortunately the leather sole wore out in two months. I know they are meant to be resoled, but I have never have any leather-bottomed shoe wear out nearly that fast. Back the manufacturer they went.
Ive noticed that the outsole has gotten fairly chewed up by the concrete outside. Which I found a bit odd, especially for something called 1000 mile boots. Figured id just get a Topy on them in order to save the soles.
They don’t make them like they used to. For sure they don’t make them for 100o miles. If they did they would probably be too stiff and heavy for the average consumer and would definitely need to be broken in which isn’t very comfortable.
If you’re looking for tougher old school boots, maybe next time try a smaller and more traditional boot company like White’s boots which hopefully still uses thicker and higher quality leathers, they probably won’t be as comfortable out of the box, but they won’t breakdown as fast.
Alternatively get you wolverines resoled with a better and thicker sole.
Picked up a pair of these over the weekend. Its been raining like a bastard here in NJ/NYC and given they are suede have not been able to wear them. Can’t wait. They are super comfortable.