Hey Valentine! If you’re done hanging out with your boot-iful sole-mate (nailed it), we’ve got a brand new Redwing colorway, Iron Boot’s Ticho-sen One (starring our very own Shoecast Co-host Ticho The Blanco), a new heritage boot from Jim Green, and more, in this weeks: Shoes ‘n’ Boots of the Week.
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Red Wing Classic Moc in Dusty Rose Abilene: $319
The Japanese market is absolutely spoiled for choice when it comes to Red Wing Mocs, but we westerners are getting a little taste with these SB Foot Dusty Rose Abilene leather. You’ve got the standard classic moc specs: Traction Tred Wedge, full grain leather insole, 360˚ flat welt, seven nickel eyelets. It’s probably for the best that heritage brands don’t do huge, LVMH style press shoots, but damn these would look good in a pinked out Valentines day spread. You definitely don’t need to rush out and pick these up–there will always be more boots—but, for those interested, it’s worth noting that these are a limited run.
Jim Green Numzaan Boot in Walnut Veg Tan: $249
South Africa’s Jim Green has been stalwart supplier of affordable work boots since they hit the U.S. market. This week, they dropped their first heritage boot, the Numzaan. The uppers are 2.2mm veg-tan, with a leather lasting board and midsole, and a steel shank. There are two proprietary options in the outsole department—a unit lug and a chevron tread design–and the construction is 360˚ stitchdown. You can get them in Walnut…
Jim Green Numzaan Boot in Natural Veg Tan: $249
…and Natural.
Iron Boots Tichosen One in SB Foot Roughout: $575 (Made to Order)
Shoecast co-host Tichoblanco’s fantastically named Chosen One in S.B. Foot roughout is open for MTO orders, tricked out with your choice of brogued, un-brogued, or absent cap toe, structured or unstructured toe, and all eyelets or 4/3-eyelets/speedhooks. These use the softer construction that Iron Boots pioneered, with felt filler in place of cork and a leather shank in place of steel, with 270˚ handsewn stitchdown construction.
Viberg 2040 Service Boot in Brown Nut Cypress:$880
We’ll let Phil from Ashland (who makes some excellent wallets out of the stuff) explain Horween’s Cypress “a full grain, drum-dyed, vegetable retanned leather finished with a tough wax coat and intense grain character.” Thanks Phil! This is from us: Viberg’s broad-toeboxed 2040 last and brogued cap toe that chonks things up even more works just wonderfully with a Dr. Sole Supergrip half-sole, making for a lightly tamed beast of a boot.
Viberg 2030 Service Boot in English Tan Cypress: $880
The sleeker but still half-soled 2030-last Cypress brethren is a handful of ticks lighter in shade, and should provide an excellent patina canvas.
Viberg 145 Oxford in Brown Waxed Flesh: $800
The most recent limited release from Viberg is a combo of two reliable classics: Horween’s Brown Waxed Flesh and Viberg’s chunky 145 Oxford (yes, the 110 last is a triple E), fitted out with the appropriately chonkmaxxing Vibram 2021 wedge and double row stitchdown. The coffee hardware matches the upper, leaving the contrast to the glorious waxed flesh knap that’ll show up when these start to take a beating, which is pretty much what these are built for. Not a lot of sizes left!!
Viberg Service Boot 2040 in Brown Waxed Flesh: $880
If thats just not enough waxed flesh (we get it), Viberg’s also got some new plain toed 2040’s on Dr. Sole half soles and heels. The #2 eyelets are on the finer side of Viberg’s spectrum, and balance out the chunkier last and half-sole combo. Another nice touch—the contrast semi-gusset tongues in brown Chromexcel.
Oak Street Bootmakers Field Boot in Cognac Ness: $556
The Mad-Leather-Scientists at Oak Street street have a new flat welted Field Boot decked out in Cognac Ness leather (from Badalassi, not a loch in the Scottish Highlands), a tannage that shrunken, dyed, and hand polished to produce the heavy texture that compliments the Itshide commando soles. In our humble opinion these could stay in heavy rotation a lot longer than most equivalently show-piecey leathers.
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