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>Did you ask Amanda arberry if those boots were made for jogging?
Anon, you are wearing work boots that sold out decades ago before becoming a fashion brand for nigger culture.
The Tennessee manufacturers now only repair boots and stopped manufacturing boots under Allegiance Footwear.
Modern footwear in large uses polyurethane and Eva foam. It's lighter, has more cushion and reasonable durability if used frequently (hydrolysis). US product design is always slow for these transitions because cowboys. We used the revolver in mass a century after semi auto arrived and was adopted by the military. US boot makers still use welted boots even though the rest of the world has moved on.
Welted boots weigh 4 to 6 pounds and as the saying goes 1 pound on your feet is the same as 5 on your back. Even the last holdouts like wildland firefighting is finding new designs that aren't the clunkers whites and nicks and Jake's and Wesco are. Plus, wildland fire has a massive amount of foot, knee, and back issues in a large part to these once mandatory boots.
Even Europe with the Meindl or the Norwegian M77 or Swiss boots have used polyurethane for a long time now.
The only US manufacturer I know with the million dollar machines to make those boots is Thorogood/Weinnbrenner, the other ones import from China like your shit Timberlands.
I've heard the European polyurethane boots have declined with some EU biodegradable laws. I think the Alfa M77 is still good since Norway isn't in EU.
I know Australia has 3 companies made there, Redback, Rossi, and Mongrel. All 3 have their pros and cons. Mongrel has the least hydrolysis issues, Redback is most comfy boots I've ever worn, and Rossi uses nitrile too which is a little more durable but their company seems to be having issues right now.
You can also get the Chinkware in the usual trail runners like Salomoan or Danners new polyurethane boots, but they may use EVA like most Nikes which is a less durable foam.
