Jim Green

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I love the toeshape on these. Very 30s design to my eye - big, round toebox with plenty of room.

Maybe it's unique to the subculture of the working class poor in The USA. Work boots. Without any specific definition as to what kind of work. Any kind of work that may come your way. You needed to have a pair of boots. Whether it was a production plant or warehouse that needed extra labor to fill a big order. Or a large construction job where they needed more hands to do unskilled labor. Maybe the local garage needed a second pair of hands. O a neighborhood bakery needed an extra person who could lift 50 pound sacks of flour. We did all of the work around our own homes, from painting, to tree trimming, to unclogging drain pipes.

At a time it would have been a norm to have "work boots" that could be made to look respectable as they might have been the only footwear the owner had, so had to do double duty for work and home. Or they had a pair 'for best' that would be rotated into daily wear when the current daily pair went beyond repair. (My dad did that with his daily shoes for years, I think still does. One pair to wear day to day, the other pair were worn exclusively to church on a Sunday morning. When the daily pair finally died, the Sunday pair were broken in sufficiently to go to daily wear with no issues. Then a new Sunday pair was bought to continue the cycle.

I see the desert boot style Vellies on Amazon for about £137, which I'm mulling over now...