Man-of-Mystery
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Eagerly awaiting more photos of ol' Bob.
The man's a total barm pot.
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Eagerly awaiting more photos of ol' Bob.
I had the same problem with my cheapie Chinese 1460s. Creasing is inevitable, but open cracking is not acceptable. I would expect this not to be an issue with the MiE docs.
If I take a closer look at the leather, it looks dried with miniature cracks (not whole boot, only sides of front part where boots bend) although I polish it regularly. At the beginning when the first cracks started to appear, I was using DM Wonder Balsam but it doesn't do shine and never dries, so I went to KIWI.
I polished mine regularly as well (Kiwi). Also, how necessary are Doc Martens to the traditional skinhead look? I take it not just any work boot will do, but how much leeway does one have?
"Back in the day", when the tail end of the mods were morphing into the first of the skinheads* the DM was not obligatory. I had other boots before a pair of DMs and did not throw them away when I got my first pair. I saw some "hard mods" wearing "grand-dad boots" with suits; I had a pair of monkey boots like these:
What other brands were around?
Cracking seems to be more of a leather quality issue.
monkey boots always have a stigma that they are "girls" boots or kids boots before he can fit into a pair of DMs...
The Kraken reappears, breathes fire and skulks back to lair?
Not in my day, GS, and not in S E London to my recollection. What was occurring at that time was, as you'd expect, a shift in the youth population - older brothers marrying and settling down, younger brothers getting old enough for the "look", and those of us who fell in between just carrying on with a few changes. Happens in any "scene".
GS, I can remember lads using black polish on red boots to get a kind of faux ox-blood finish. No kidding.