Review: Is John Doe Shoes the Cheapest MTO Boot?

FULL REVIEW + PICTURES: https://stridewise.com/john-doe-shoes-review/ 11 WAYS TO SAVE MONEY ON BOOTS: https://stridewise.com/best-boot-deals John Doe Shoes is a company that's not super well known, and that's sort of done on purpose: they openly state that they spend next to nothing on marketing so that they can spend less money on the production of their boots. And these are MADE TO ORDER BOOTS for under $200. (I mean, most of them are.) That's a phenomenal deal. I really need to emphasize this: you can get them in a huge range of leathers, you can pick the sole, you can pick the stitching, you can even pick the color of the stitches. Here's what I thought of the 420 boot in Horween's Chromepak leather. RELATED: THE 5 BEST BOOTS OF 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y7_Bu7XGB0 FIRST GLANCE * Basic service boot * Low profile toe * Some QC issues with stitches This is a standard service boot: low profile toe, rounded toe box, and six inches in height. It's as classic a boot as most people want. Made with English Tan Chromepak leather — more on that later — it's a very well made boot for the price, although it did have some quality control issues with the stitching: the double stitching along the toe cap wasn't symmetrical on both boots, the triple stitching on the vamp intersected on one of the boots and not the other, and the leather tore a little around the speed hook. That said, and I'm being honest here, I didn't consider these to be deal breakers based on th