I kinda feel like these are the most legit "tough" Chelsea boots, which is a very hard category to nail. Unlike, say, loggers and moc toes, Chelsea boot's origins aren't as work boots; the first pair were walking boots for Queen Victoria.
So you don't often see *heritage*, *Chelsea*, *work* boots and when someone does try to make a really meaty, PNW-style Chelsea it just looks... weird. Square-peg-in-a-round-hole weird.
What's cool about the Chelsea from Colombia's Bordon is that it's not chunky — it still looks like a Chelsea boot, in other words — but they made it with ultra tough double row stitchdown construction and vegetable tanned Wickett and Craig leather.
These boots have a 9-month waitlist right now though, so, you know. Pretty god damn lame, but the price of $409 for stitchdown Wickett and Craig is a PRETTY compelling proposition even with the wait: ktku.co/ix
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I kinda feel like these are the most legit "tough" Chelsea boots, which is a very hard category to nail. Unlike, say, loggers and moc toes, Chelsea boot's origins aren't as work boots; the first pair were walking boots for Queen Victoria.
So you don't often see *heritage*, *Chelsea*, *work* boots and when someone does try to make a really meaty, PNW-style Chelsea it just looks... weird. Square-peg-in-a-round-hole weird.
What's cool about the Chelsea from Colombia's Bordon is that it's not chunky — it still looks like a Chelsea boot, in other words — but they made it with ultra tough double row stitchdown construction and vegetable tanned Wickett and Craig leather.
These boots have a 9-month waitlist right now though, so, you know. Pretty god damn lame, but the price of $409 for stitchdown Wickett and Craig is a PRETTY compelling proposition even with the wait: ktku.co/ix
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