Engineer Boots, Harness Boots...

[Edward]

Thinking the Mr. Lou will is just fine. Getting these out for casual wear a few wears per week and about 6 weeks in. They definitely look black in dim light, but in brighter light can see the olive undertones. This is The Shop x Wesco collab in Maryam Horsehide Olive Petrolio.

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Nice look! Are they Horween? I have a vague recollection that Horween did a CXL At a time that was black with a green undertone (I think it was called something counterintuitive like Midnight Blue?). It's a look I like; reminds me of a lot of German-made leather jackets from the 30s through 50s. I enjoy it much more than teacore, the latter having a tendency to give me the twitch over whether the match it with black or brown other bits half the time.

 

[Herrvallmo]

Nice look! Are they Horween? I have a vague recollection that Horween did a CXL At a time that was black with a green undertone (I think it was called something counterintuitive like Midnight Blue?). It's a look I like; reminds me of a lot of German-made leather jackets from the 30s through 50s. I enjoy it much more than teacore, the latter having a tendency to give me the twitch over whether the match it with black or brown other bits half the time.

Not mine but I'll answer anyway haha, Those Mr.Lou are Maryam Horsehide Olive Petrolio

 

[Toastyghost]

Finally found engineers that work with my low volume feet!
5th times a charm.
Nice horse hide with good color depth. Comfortable insole.
10” height.
Very narrow shaft. I wear straight cut denim but these would likely work well with tapered pants.
photo skills are bad so i screen grabbed.

https://butterscotchlb.com/products/addict-clothes-horsehide-engineer-boot-brown

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Could you help me with sizing for these? I’ve got low volume feet too (Lofgrens felt very loose on me). My foot measures 27.5cm exactly. Addict’s size 10 is 28cm.. seems right? I wear 11d in MOST Nikes but could wear a 10.5. I wear a 10 in Red Wing moc toes, 9.5d in iron rangers.

Thank you!

 

[Toastyghost]

Does anyone own a pair of the Chippewa by Real Mccoys horsehide boots? There's a pair I'm looking at that might be my size, not entirely sure how they run.

I have the Chippewa reproduction boots made by Toys McCoy, The Wild One. How can I help?

 

[Bfd70]

Could you help me with sizing for these? I’ve got low volume feet too (Lofgrens felt very loose on me). My foot measures 27.5cm exactly. Addict’s size 10 is 28cm.. seems right? I wear 11d in MOST Nikes but could wear a 10.5. I wear a 10 in Red Wing moc toes, 9.5d in iron rangers.

Thank you!

9.5
But, as you know, engineers are tricky. Are you purchasing with a return option?

 

[Toastyghost]

9.5
But, as you know, engineers are tricky. Are you purchasing with a return option?

Not sure yet! If I can find some uses I’ll go that route, as I’ve seen these lofgrens really hold up well. I wore my 10.5s for about three months solid and barely even dented the soles.

I’d be ok with my toes touching the end a little bit given my experience so far. Just hoping to find a size that feels less loose in the heel and midfoot.

Really appreciate the help!

 

[Drzdave58]

I just acquired these Lofgrens in brown shinki.

 

[Nykwil]

Briselblack keeper 2 kapak last in Shinki Teacore horse.

 

[Nykwil]

I just acquired these Lofgrens in brown shinki.
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That horse butt tiger stripe grain looks awesome

 

[AeroFan_07]

*Slightly different topic alert* - Failure of a pre-owned Chippewa Engineer boot.

I realized I never did share this on here, and unfortunately it has a sad ending, so if you are easily disturbed by sad endings, just skip this post and move along with this thread. Actually it's being posted to help remind all of us, myself included, that these leather, canvas & wool goods we all love so much are Natural Items and do indeed have a service life. Also there can be hidden defects that we ourselves cannot see, which I believe was the case with this nice pair of boots. They were a bit too small for me after I received them in August of 2023, however they were newly re-soled so I listed these here and ultimately sold them to a shop owner in Des Moines, IA who I know well.

Photos of the boots as I received them -




These were actually just a bit larger in size then his present pair. In his attempt to try them on (he has a pair identical to these so he knew what to expect), the highly unfortunate occurred.

He still wound up taking care of most of the price of these, even though I insisted he not do that. It was an accident, and no-one could have reasonably known they would fail there as these did.

I do indeed hope he was able to do something with them - cut them down a bit, or perhaps attempt a repair. I may head over that way this weekend, since it's been 1.5 years now and maybe they have made them into something.

All the more reason to keep conditioning your boots! I suspect these were either really dehydrated, or maybe over-conditioned....Any thoughts you all would have on this?