I recently moved to a huge city, and plan to walk quite a bit. Unfortunately, my old $20 Sketchers sneakers from Walmart have worn holes through the toes over the last six years and are in desperate need of being replaced.
Luckily! I have a big tax return coming soon and am willing to spend around $150-$300 on two pairs of boots/shoes to last me the rest of my life - I'd love a pair of nice tan Wingtips, and a pair for general daily wear to get me around town - both stylish and comfortable as well as long-lasting.
Here's the catch though:
I am a tiny, tiny little man with size 4.5 feet; I stand at around 5'3", so something that increases my height would be even better.
What shoe brands can you recommend to last, prove comfortable, and fit?
I've been considering Doc Martens and Fluevogs, but are there any other good brands you can recommend?
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"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness." Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play
June 25, 2017 at 05:39AM
