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Coming back to engineer boots, am in Tokyo checking out various Japanese engineer boots the past week or so. Phigvel, Makers horsehide, cushman, toys McCoy beck. The beck is quite nice. Makers uses very similar materials to the attractions same bottom sole, similar horsehide but different last/shape. Went to Brass/Clinch today too. Oh well, bought the Attractions on the first day here. The Attractions horween hh are too expensive for me. They are indeed thicker than the normal (Japanese?)hh.
Oh, sorry. By hand aniline dye I mean mccoys probably uses the same aniline dye as Gw or dd but then hand dye/paint again with a thin coat of black. That's why I said they are dyed differently. You may notice that there are 2 mccoys j100 one is tea core I.e. Black over brown while the other is deep black i.e. Black over black.Then it must be a slightly different Shinki hide. My dye does not come off that way and I don't think Good Wear's does either if I remember correctly. I am guessing DD and JC use the same spec HH from Shinki because I have also noticed more grain from them and like breton said, McCoys have their hides pressed to remove grain. I think Himel gets the same spec as Japan because I notice his jackets being quite smooth and having dye rub off while my leather resembles pictures of Good Wear jackets more. However, I believe Good Wear and DD still are aniline dyed as was told to me by DD and as posted on the Good Wear website.
I know I have seen Badalassi cowhide on John Lofgrens which is absolutely stunning.
Coming back to engineer boots, am in Tokyo checking out various Japanese engineer boots the past week or so. Phigvel, Makers horsehide, cushman, toys McCoy beck. The beck is quite nice. Makers uses very similar materials to the attractions same bottom sole, similar horsehide but different last/shape. Went to Brass/Clinch today too. Oh well, bought the Attractions on the first day here. The Attractions horween hh are too expensive for me. They are indeed thicker than the normal (Japanese?)hh.
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