Review: Why I Don't Like Dr. Martens Boots

✪ THE TOP 10 BOOTS you can buy (in under 10 minutes!)! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kuHyyefNGE BUY DOC MARTEN 1460S HERE: https://fave.co/2L9y91z Dr. Martens is one of the most iconic boots of all time, deeply tied to various music countercultures in the latter half of the 20th century. Weird fact: the guy who started it all, Dr. Klaus Märtens, was a doctor in the Nazi army toward the very end of World War 2. He injured his foot skiing, didn’t like how Nazi boots felt as he was healing, so he made his own boots with rubber from Luftwaffe airfields after the war. So in an industry that’s now jam packed with shanks, Goodyear welts, space age soles, and zillion dollar leathers, does the old 1460 still hold up? READ THE FULL REVIEW: http://stridewise.com/dr-martens-1460-review/ OVERVIEW A super uncomplicated boot without much stitching, Dr. Martens calls this “full grain leather” but it’s so corrected and thin that it looks like plastic. Otherwise the most notable features are the bouncy rubber sole and the trademark yellow stitching going around the welt. The shaft is also pretty high at over 7 inches, so make sure you have long socks. LEATHER It’s true that some people are comfortable calling a leather both full grain *and* corrected. Horween’s famous full grain leather Chromexcel is considered lightly corrected, for example. (Horween themselves told me that.) But I’m wary of being told I’m an idiot for calling something “full grain corrected grain” so I’m call