White's Boots

[Lucifer]

@Megatron1505:

The simple answer is their brown dress leather, tough, durable, and evolves great. My SD's are coming up to 4 years old, have seen plenty of wear, and still look great.

Nice, thanks! Got any progress pics? before? or afters? or both?

[bagley920]

Anyone know if White's sells replacement laces or if you've found anything similar. Mine have started to fray from the speedhooks.

[Giles]

http://www.whitesboots.com/index.php?dispatch=categories.view&category_id=170

[Megatron1505]

@Lucifer:

@Megatron1505:

The simple answer is their brown dress leather, tough, durable, and evolves great. My SD's are coming up to 4 years old, have seen plenty of wear, and still look great.

Nice, thanks! Got any progress pics? before? or afters? or both?

I can post some up on Sunday, but I am away until then. Google should turn out some pretty nice pics though.

[SpaceGnome]

here's a glamour shot of the dress brown in new form.

heres a pic of it slightly more used

[Jpo1932]

Nice boot. Not a big fan of how the midsole tapers to such a thin point, though.

[SpaceGnome]

Not sure I understand what you mean by mid sole shaping into a point.  you mean the shape of the toebox?  Its anything but pointy

[Jpo1932]

The leather that runs from the back heel to the toe end of the boot, is what I was referring to. Sorry for being confusing.

I just prefer a thicker midsole, I guess…

Edit: Something like this

[SpaceGnome]

I gotcha.  Whites has an option to double the mid sole i believe.  I did a half composite, might go for a full sole when it comes time to resole them.

[Lucifer]

Thanks spacegnome!

I guess regular smooth dress brown is the way to go

[demonito]

thankyou for using my picture sir

[Jpo1932]

Was not aware it was yours.  Apologies. Just happened to be one of the first results on google images… I can remove it if you wish.

[Lucifer]

Hmm, after looking at the different leather patches at white's webpage, the dress brown is very close to black, not a traditional "brown" really, I'm leaning a bit towards the distressed brown, which is lighter, but is this leather treated with anything that makes it less durable? anyone tried that leather?

[demonito]

no im not im just reallly thanking you without sarcasm

[Jpo1932]

Guess I've been reading too much on the Apple v Samsung litigation going on, as of late 

[demonito]

no worries buddy im happy to help out people and my picture of my ( long sold) viberg boot is also on the viberg boot blog

[SpaceGnome]

@Lucifer:

Hmm, after looking at the different leather patches at white's webpage, the dress brown is very close to black, not a traditional "brown" really, I'm leaning a bit towards the distressed brown, which is lighter, but is this leather treated with anything that makes it less durable? anyone tried that leather?

its really dark.  When I was deciding on my leather, I was going between Dress brown, dress black and black chromexcel.  The dress leathers were more scratch resistant, and seemed a bit more durable, but they lacked character.  That might have changed over time, but they just seemed ordinary when new.  Thats why I went with cxl.  its a tough leather, but it seems to be more adaptive, and take on characteristics quicker and easier.  If I was buying Whites for a pure utility work boot, I probably would not go with cxl.

[urbanwoodsman]

http://shop.imogeneandwillie.com/collections/whites-boots-for-i-w

[SpaceGnome]

@urbanwoodsman:

http://shop.imogeneandwillie.com/collections/whites-boots-for-i-w

+$200 mark up on some of those

[urbanwoodsman]

@SpaceGnome:

@urbanwoodsman:

http://shop.imogeneandwillie.com/collections/whites-boots-for-i-w

+$200 mark up on some of those

That's what happens with "collabs."

I put it up for people who don't like to wait and can afford not to.