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Aerows

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18. You can sew them back together

Reply to dionysus (Reply #16)

Tue Dec 3, 2013, 03:25 PM

Dec 2013

if they aren't too badly torn. Maybe I'm odd that way, but I take care of my favorite shoes and if something breaks on them, I don't automatically toss them out, same with clothes. I tend to fix them.

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This Timberland Boot ad makes a very depressing statement about the 99% [View all] ehrnst Dec 2013 OP

That is true for me, I will work until I die. Rex Dec 2013 #1

It is particularly bad taste, especially coming from a company Mass Dec 2013 #2

I had two pairs of their brogues. dipsydoodle Dec 2013 #3

I've had Doc Martins slowly fall to tatters after years... but the soles never wore a bit. dionysus Dec 2013 #6

I have a pair of Doc Martens Aerows Dec 2013 #15

on mine the stitching on the ankle part eventually gave way, so you could see the foam padding. dionysus Dec 2013 #16

You can sew them back together Aerows Dec 2013 #18

it was a combination ofthe stiching giving way and the material ripping... i'd have needed the help dionysus Dec 2013 #19

LMAO! Aerows Dec 2013 #20

i go for danner boots for a good boot, and use either hi tec or under armor as a light summer boot loli phabay Dec 2013 #8

I wear 511 boots when I found out how expensive Danner is TorchTheWitch Dec 2013 #12

TLDR Omnith Dec 2013 #22

i had a pair of hi tecs in college that i loved so much by the end they were held together with duct dionysus Dec 2013 #17

I have a pair I bought in 1988. They are wearing out now and need repair. Coyotl Dec 2013 #9

These were wing tip Oxford shoes dipsydoodle Dec 2013 #11

I went through two pairs of their trail running shoes rudolph the red Dec 2013 #21

Maybe that's not what they intended... TreasonousBastard Dec 2013 #4

"Never able to" definitely implies lack of choice in the matter n/t Fumesucker Dec 2013 #5

It Can Make You Think grilled onions Dec 2013 #7

Gee, the time to get all pouty and outraged about that ad was....THREE YEARS AGO. MADem Dec 2013 #10

They've been conditioning the sheeple to accept their fate for decades, this is just one of the Egalitarian Thug Dec 2013 #13

Oh, snap! Brigid Dec 2013 #14

It's nothing--it's not even their ad campaign anymore. MADem Dec 2013 #23

that's a really depressing ad. what were they thinking? Liberal_in_LA Dec 2013 #24

Hey it's a good boot to die in Blue Owl Dec 2013 #25