Boots / shoes to wear with your flight jacket s...

[Drzdave58]

Whites c350 cruisers. Natural doubleshot

 

[Drzdave58]

Motor engineers in HB delivered today.

 

[Grant]

Eastman horsehide Tanker boots are breaking in nicely.

breaking in nicely.

 

[atlasfields]

Great boots! How do you find the sizing relative to "normal" shoe size?

 

[flyincowboy]

US paratroper jump boots from WPG High quality boots! love them

 

[Grant]

Great boots! How do you find the sizing relative to "normal" shoe size?

Thanks! Had to size down one whole size for these bad boys.

 

[mulceber]

Thanks! Had to size down one whole size for these bad boys.

That tracks with my experience as well - I tried on a pair when I visited Standard & Strange, and it was a size below my average shoe size.

 

[atlasfields]

Makes sense. I'm an 11 on the Brannock and my Lofgren sneakers and a pair of his combat boots (I tried on at Franklin & Poe) fit in a 10

 

[B-Man2]

Most military boots were made just a bit oversized …. Reason being is that your feet were going to be in them for long periods of time and the extra room was to allow for swelling of the feet on marches and maneuvers when you’d be moving for long periods and on your feet a lot .

 

[CombatWombat]

William Lennon B5 WWI replica bootsView attachment 141355

Oh they look lovely!
I've been looking at a pair on a Finn website that's got rubber half soles......but I'm still trying to find a way to slip them past a wife that thinks I'm Imelda Marcos with my boot collection

 

[CombatWombat]

These are my "it's bloody cold at 6am to walk the damned dog"/winter motorbike boots......
Built like a brick outhouse and are lined in a fantastic wool felt.
The leather is going to take ages to bed into my footshape, the buckles help me get the perfect fit and the stormwelt has a layer of rubber painted over the top to keep seepage at bay

 

[Adama36]

Corcoran jump boots
My most confortable boots
Spent 2 days digging trenches in my backyard to install a couple of french drains; therefore the dirt

 

[CombatWombat]

Corcoran jump boots
My most confortable boots
Spent 2 days digging trenches in my backyard to install a couple of french drains; therefore the dirt

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Corcorans I find are way too narrow across the foot/the tongue seam bites the top of my foot......they look amazing though

 

[flyincowboy]

The corcoran boots were better before changing the midsole for a rubber/plastic one which split in pieces .... had them resoled it cost an arm and a leg to have that done properly.Nearly the price of new boots.

 

[Smithy]

Just polished these old things what with the snow gone. Had them resoled awhile back. One of the best pair of boots I've ever had.