Palladium Footwear

[hectic]

FYI: Some sites recommend that you size down a little, I would echo that from personal experience.

[DougNg]

How's sizing compared to Chucks?

I typically have to size down half for Chucks

[hectic]

I would say a half, not a whole, Doug.

[Geo]

i'm a 9UK and i wear a 9UK (43EU) in palladiums but can only wear thinner socks . . . a 9.5UK fits me perfectly but aren't always available

[DougNg]

Thanks guys

[Chris]

I normally wear an 11 (US) in athletic shoes- Nike, Mizuno, etc., and a size 10 (US) fits perfectly.

[SepticSef]

i wear a size 9US in my red wings and yuketens.should i stick with the size for palladium boots?

[Geo]

See above on my palladium size preference . . . and I am a uk 8.5 to 9 in yuketen

[SepticSef]

ah ok my bad geo.thanks for the heads up!

[Megatron1505]

Thread resurrection.

Anyone wear Palladium regularly still? I need new "sneakers" and Pam claims that my choice (Nike Jordan III) make me look like a sad old man trying to regain my youth.

Converse and Vans murder my feet, so Palladium seem like an option if they are more comfortable.

[Snowy]

If I'm not in birkies or boots I'm in a pair of these, yeah. I find them comfy but have no sneakers to compare to, sorry.

[Chris]

I still wear mine.  I think they're pretty comfortable, but I don't have any experience with Vans or Cons, (I'm guessing you're referring to the standard Chuck Taylors) so I can't say if they're better.  But if the French Foreign Legion used them as standard issue boots, they have to be minimally decent, right?

[Seul]

Not really - they're French…

[Chris]

But it's the French Foreign Legion.  By definition, they aren't French.

Silly Belgian.

[mclaincausey]

The first clue that they aren't French is that they are soldiers.

[Seul]

@Chris:

But it's the French Foreign Legion.

I know - but their stuff is still supplied by the French innit?.. At least I think so… Not too familiar with the logistics of the "Vreemdelingenlegioen"...

[joeysullivan]

@Chris:

But it's the French Foreign Legion.  By definition, they aren't French.

Silly Belgian.

Well, actually, most of the Legionaire are actually French, and you can notice that if there is so much Belgian, Swiss and Canadian legionnaire, it's because lot of them are French under fake identity from french speaking country.

@mclaincausey:

The first clue that they aren't French is that they are soldiers.

Oh yes. Just like the +1,300,000 soldiers who died in the trench during WWI, the +371,000 who died during the Napoleonic wars, or the 88 who died in Afghanistan, the +10,000 which are right now deployed in Mali, CAR, Niger, Chad and Mauritania fighting terrorism. They aren't soldiers.

And no, Palladium boots are no longer part of the standard legion uniform since the 60's. They were designed as off-duty boots in former french north african colonial empire conditions, but have nothing to compare with modern combat boots.