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Clinch engineer boots have never been priced at £400. Clutch cafe had/has them at ~£1,600.
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The price did go up a little bit but I would not say skyrocketed (except the 20% surcharge for custom). A fd of mine bought his Clinch engineer boots way back in 2015 for slightly over 100000 yen. At the time, the only way to get them is through custom order. You may have mistaken their Mast trainer for boots. The Mast trainer is selling for GBP 495 at Clutch Cafe. A few of us almost ordered the all leather Mast trainer to serve as monkey boots given the more reasonable price. You can find bargain sometimes when the dealers are having seasonal sale. I paid less than GBP400 each for my engineer and plain toe because the local dealer was having a closed out sale.Marc Zuckerberg did something along these lines to preserve his own privacy (it's only other people's privacy which he consdiers an "outdated concept", it seems).
I handled a pair of Clinch boots at Clutch Cafe in London last year, fwiw. At the time they were £400, and noticeably more solid than, say, my Chippewas (which are themselves beautifully built). Price seemed in line with Lewis boots too. Unfortunately they seem to have skyrocketed since, but they do look great.
My first thought reading thiswas "paging Dav...."
I've said this before - I love that you're prepared to buy the high end boots and then wear 'em like they were intended.
I wonder whether the 'problem' with engineer boots at present is that they're just not popular enough for there to be much more than either 'cheap' stuff, or really high end.... There's got to be space for a pair of really nicely put-together engineer boots at the GBP200-250 price band. I'd love to see Aero give it a go - surely they'd be a big seller to the Aero jacket market?
The price did go up a little bit but I would not say skyrocketed (except the 20% surcharge for custom). A fd of mine bought his Clinch engineer boots way back in 2015 for slightly over 100000 yen. At the time, the only way to get them is through custom order. You may have mistaken their Mast trainer for boots. The Mast trainer is selling for GBP 495 at Clutch Cafe. A few of us almost ordered the all leather Mast trainer to serve as monkey boots given the more reasonable price. You can find bargain sometimes when the dealers are having seasonal sale. I paid less than GBP400 each for my engineer and plain toe because the local dealer was having a closed out sale.
I would like to amend my post:
Apples and oranges. A steak is better than a chicken breast...but you shouldn't eat it everyday! I like chicken and steak, sometimes together.Yeah, way better than the beat cop coat.
I would like to amend my post:
I actually quite like it in the mono tan! That jacket would be my first choice. It's everything I like. Everything.Which colours?
I actually quite like it in the mono tan! That jacket would be my first choice. It's everything I like. Everything.
Best pic ever of a LW!!This.
I'd be tempted by an Electric Leather Studio Tex.
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Or maybe the Lightning.
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The Lightning would be awesome in Mushmans' Mars Leather.
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Mushmans' Mars Leather.