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

[Flightengineer]

What are the soles made of?

rubber

 

[Pa12]

Ok. Not the gum soles like Clark’s?

 

[Flightengineer]

Ok. Not the gum soles like Clark’s?

Never worn Clarks.

Men's heritage Black

Veldskoen men's original desert chukka boot with the black sole is ethically and sustainably handcrafted with locally sourced, premium materials from South Africa. They are made with genuine locally sourced water-resistant suede leather. Our mission is to improve the lives around us and reduce...

www.veldskoenshoes.com

 

[Pa12]

Found a Canadian distributor. Just ordered a pair

 

[CombatWombat]

Veldskoen - the boots that started the history of the all desert boots.
Incredible quality and comfort, very happy with these Vellies from South Africa.
Special thanks to @Brettafett and his friend from SA for helping with sizing.

If you think these are nice you should see the selous Scout boot.....thin but robust rubber sole with a buffalo (?) Leather that has as beautiful grain to it and it's toe cap and heel capped..... feels a bit strange at first because of how tactial they are but once you've got used to it, it's like walking around in thongs/flip flops but classy lol

 

[FlakMagnet]

Might be of some interest to the folks here:

 

[Chandler]

Might be of some interest to the folks here:

Watched this last night and meant to add a link, but forgot -- thanks for being on it!

And yeah, it's pretty interesting to see the boots and hear the insight.

 

[CombatWombat]

Might be of some interest to the folks here:

He's done American "Rangers" and German "Jackboots" too
He does a bloody good job of showing what's inside the boots we wear

 

[Chandler]

He's done American "Rangers" and German "Jackboots" too
He does a bloody good job of showing what's inside the boots we wear

"Rangers?" I missed that one -- and it turns out the jackboots we're probably post-war manufacture, but it was still interesting to see how they were built.

This "series" all started when he studied a pair of US double-buckles -- also pretty interesting.

 

[B-Man2]

"Rangers?" I missed that one -- and it turns out the jackboots we're probably post-war manufacture, but it was still interesting to see how they were built.

This "series" all started when he studied a pair of US double-buckles -- also pretty interesting.

Chandler
Here’s the you tube of him cutting up Red Wing Iron Rangers
Cheers

 

[Chandler]

Chandler
Here’s the you tube of him cutting up Red Wing Iron Rangers
Cheers

Oh yeah, been following Rose Anvil for a while. Like a lot of his vids, but the sneakers are yawners.

So -- when @CombatWombat mentioned "Rangers" in context with the other military boots, I thought he meant some sort of elite unit pair of boots. Now I get it.

 

[B-Man2]

Oh yeah, been following Rose Anvil for a while. Like a lot of his vids, but the sneakers are yawners.

Yeah same here … but it broke my heart to see him cut up a pair of WWII US buckle boots . Only so many pairs of those left in the world.

 

[Chandler]

Yeah same here … but it broke my heart to see him cut up a pair of WWII US buckle boots . Only so many pairs of those left in the world.

According to Weston, he was seeing a lot of them available online. He also talks about using his "method" as historical research and wants to have all of the vintage ones available for all to study.

That, and the pair of Double Buckles wasn't exactly in wearable condition.

 

[CombatWombat]

"Rangers?" I missed that one -- and it turns out the jackboots we're probably post-war manufacture, but it was still interesting to see how they were built.

This "series" all started when he studied a pair of US double-buckles -- also pretty interesting.

Oh you call them Double Buckles?
Oh I thought they were called Rangers lol (I guess it's just the French that named there type as Rangers)
And the Jackboots probably were since they had rubber soles with the side strap......still they look good with the wood pegs

 

[FlakMagnet]

Fantastic video dissecting ww2 Japanese army boots

 

[Chandler]

Fantastic video dis ww2 Japanese army boots

And he really likes them. Not so sure I do.

 

[B-Man2]

Crazy …. I just watched this video last night ……
Coincidence ???? …..I think not

 

[Smithy]

I've been wearing my Sturm Mil-Tec Roughouts from SoF a lot over the last few months (more so than the Service Shoes) and just have to put a plug in for them. Terrific boots and super hardwearing. If anyone is after some Roughouts, I wholeheartedly recommend them and they're a damn good price too. The Sturm Mil-Tec Service Shoes also get 2 thumbs up.

 

[blackrat2]

Hi Smithy
How do they come up size wise, are they fairly large or true to size?

 

[Smithy]

Hi Smithy
How do they come up size wise, are they fairly large or true to size?

I just ordered my normal shoe size and they were bang on.