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Timberlands Vs Doc Martens: The Most Iconic Boot Battle Ever

This is it: the boot comparison. I’ve compared boots before, it’s true —  Wolverine Vs. Thursday, Viberg Vs. Alden, Alden Vs. Allen Edmonds Vs. Grant Stone —

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Thursday Boot Company Vanguard Review: Is American Made Better?

Founded in 2014, Thursday Boot Company is one of the newest boot companies on the scene and they’ve been disruptive, to say the least. It was founded by Connor

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Boot Review: Is Santalum the Red Wing of Indonesia?

Santalum is an Indonesian boot company based in the West Javan capital of Bandung, which is basically Asia’s unofficial boot headquarters. A lot of people

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Red Wing Blacksmith Boot Review – Rugged or Comfortable?

Red Wing is probably the most popular and influential American boot brand of all time. Around here, I rarely stop talking about them; I’ve reviewed them,

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Types of Boot Soles You Should Know About: Rubber vs Leather vs Crepe

If you’re dropping real money on your boots, you want to make sure you have the best type of boot soles for your style and use. Just like you wouldn’t wear

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Saphir Renovateur Review | The World’s Best Boot Conditioner?

Saphir's Renovateur is the crème de la shoe crème. It is the fanciest, schmanciest, priciest leather conditioning product you're likely to find, and it has

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Does It Matter If Your Leather Conditioner Has Petroleum?

If you’ve already invested in a pair of quality leather boots, you probably know how important leather conditioner is. A good conditioner will do a lot for you:

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Timberland Premium Waterproof Boot Review – Is the Hype Real?

This is it: the original yellow boot that made the Timberland Company so famous. The company was founded in Boston in 1928 when it was called the Abington Boot

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Venetian Shoe Cream Review and How to Use

It's fair to say that Venetian Shoe Cream is the go-to product for conditioning boots. Whether you're talking about boots that are outdoorsy or dressy, 

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LL Bean Hawthorne Boot Review: Does the Price Forgive the Flaws?

LL Bean is one of the few companies I’ve reviewed that isn’t an actual, dedicated boot company. They’re a privately held retail store that was founded in 1912

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Review: Is Tricker’s Stow the Best British Boot?

Tricker’s is one of England’s oldest shoemakers, founded in 1829 by Joseph Barltrop and still in the family: his descendant Nicholas Barltrop runs the business

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Review: Wolf & Shepherd’s Hybrid Dress Boot-Running Shoe

Wolf and Shepherd is an extremely unusual footwear company that was founded in 2014 Justin Schneider, a former track and field athlete at Notre Dame. After

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Sagara Boot Review: How Do Indonesian Boots Hold Up?

I have a longstanding obsession with Indonesia. I live in New York City, but I grew up in Australia, where Indonesia is our largest neighboring country. Our

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Red Wing Boot Oil Vs. Mink Oil – What’s Best for Waterproofing and Maintaining Color?

Don’t make the same mistake I did. Don’t lose your Red Wings to the wrong conditioner. Take a look at these Red Wing Iron Rangers, perhaps the most

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The Pros and Cons of Kangaroo Leather

Kangaroo leather, sometimes called K-leather, is what most people would call exotic leather, though that term typically brings endangered and exalted animals to

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Review: Danner’s Jack II Boot Is Comfy, But Not Tough

Danner is an enormously popular boot company. Based in Oregon, they were founded by Charles Danner in 1932 in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin —same place the Chippewa

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Dayton Service Boot Review (and Discount Code!) – Fashionable, Yet Masculine

Dayton is a Canadian company founded in 1946 by Charlie Wohlford after he developed quite a reputation for repairing loggers' boots, which led to pretty much

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Nubuck Vs Suede: A Tanner, Leatherworker, and Bootmaker Weigh In

Expert Verified By: Michael Batson, Leatherworker and Vice President at North Star Leather Company To start, let’s be clear: both suede and nubuck are forms

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Thorogood Moc Toe Review – The Work Boot You Can Wear Out

At over 125 years old, Thorogood is one of the oldest shoe companies in the United States and they’re one of the few that are employee-owned, two facts that

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Doc Martens Review: Why The 1460s Are Overrated

They made Doc Martens in England for a long time, but after nearing bankruptcy in 2003, they moved production to China and Thailand. Now, Dr. Martens only makes

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Vegetable Tanning Vs. Chrome Tanning Vs Oil Tanning Vs Combination Tanning Leather: What’s Best For Your Boots?

How your leather is made matters a lot for durability and aesthetics, but for people, how their leather is made is a bit of a mystery. In the world of boots,

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5-Year White’s Boots Review: Why the MP Sherman Is My Favorite Boot Ever

White’s is one of the most storied bootmakers in America, famous for their ultra tough firefighting boots but just as celebrated for their everyday casual boots

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Thorogood Vs. Red Wing Vs. Chippewa – The Best American Work Boot?

There’s a ton of interest on Reddit, YouTube, and everywhere else in comparing these three stalwart American boot companies and it’s not hard to see why. They

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Review: Helm’s Crazy Versatile Muller Boot (Plus a Discount Code!)

For those coming from YouTube, the discount code is just beneath the video↓ Joshua Bingaman had a storied history in footwear before launching Helm. His

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