Why Doc Martens Are So Popular.

hello everyone welcome to the deserted village of feltville i have blisters the size of biscuits from these boots and i can't wait to get started [Music] what's up youtube i'm just driving by and i saw something called the deserted village of feltville and i said we actually we definitely have to go there although it's clearly it's very clearly not deserted so they could just call this the village of feltville a quick apology many of you dm me on instagram after the video i made about denmark and taylor and i deleted all of those messages by accident i switched my account from business to personal wiped okay so like the title of this video says this is the ultimate doc martin boot guide i have three boots with well two boots and one shoe i have the 1460s which are the original doc martin boots then i have the 1461s which are the oxfords but i got them in vegan leather so we can talk about the difference between doc martin leather and their vegan offering and then finally i got a pair of solo air monkey boots which uh it's a big battle between solaveir and doc martin made in england quality i think there's a hands-down winner so we'll get into that and i'll tell you why all of your snobby friends say doc martens are horrible and solaveir is way better i forgot to mention there's also something weird with the way they stitch the sole onto these boots it's done in a way where you can repair the boot but they make it exceedingly difficult so we'll talk about that too what's up post filming mike here i'm gonna guide you through everything so first things first we will go over the 1460s if i say the word doc martin you're probably thinking of this boot and people have a lot of i guess beef with dog martens because they used to be a lot better quality and then when popularity went way way down for doc martens doc martin basically almost declared bankruptcy then they went overseas and basically stayed afloat by doing that so now we have these which are not as good as they used to be but here's the thing this is the only thing that i think these are i believe 170 and you can get them on sale a lot and people don't like the quality of the leather or the stitching or certain things like that but i do think for the price of 170 or lower with that sale there isn't a lot of other boots in the ring that just smash it out of the park but the big point being doc martens are a special boot because they're so iconic that most people i feel like aren't looking for just any leather goodyear welted boot they want doc martens so i think for the quality i don't really think you're getting ripped off i think you could get a little bit more for your money we'll get into made in england and solaveir like i said and i'll explain why there's that big difference the reason that i would suggest you get the plain jane doc martens and not the maiden england ones is because but for the most part i'm cool with them if i well i did buy these boots i'm wearing them right now i'm not disappointed for the price that i paid for them so right off the bat i think you'll be okay first deserted house i can't go to that one because that's private residence but this one i can the biggest thing about these leather boots is obviously the leather and my friend marcus came over recently and saw my boots and said these don't um these don't feel like they're made of leather and i said well they are marcus so shut the hell they are made of leather the only thing is that this is a pretty it's like a medium weight leather it's stiff though because there's so much finish on the outside and there's so much finish because this leather isn't really expensive the more expensive leather you get is flawless there's not a lot of scars or nicks on the leather this one does but what doc martin does is they have a finish that they put over it the reason that is not that good is because that means the boots don't age as well and actually something that i noticed while filming this is that there's bubbling going on with mine so interestingly enough the bubbling went away but i also walked in the water with these boots and got them all wet i don't know if that fixed it either way i would definitely return that if i wasn't doing this review but that's not a good thing but anyways that's because the finish separates from the leather over time and starts to flake off when just full grain leather with no finish or very very very light finish ages better and looks prettier for longer which will this kind of interesting because that kind of ties into the fact that it's really tough to resell doc martin boots the interesting though with this leather though is people are always worried it's going to look really bad even though there's a finish on these boots i haven't really seen and i looked i scoured all over the internet i haven't seen trash doc martens to a point well besides my friend artemis's boots actually they really they messed them up i don't know how they did that but those look horrible and you see the flaking off that is the that's the top coat that i'm talking about but for the most part for a pair of regular black 1460s i can't really find really really crazy thrashed boots on google on reddit or anything like that so i don't really think aging is a huge issue the only issue is if there is cracking on the top coat which can happen it's basically impossible to repair so they're just going to look like that and that's what people don't like a lot and they bubble now this is a really big reason as to why a lot of boot nerds hate doc martens i'll explain this it will come in handy later it's very very important to the value of these boots picture a car and the car has tires on it goodyear welted boots usually when the tires run out you can pop the tires off you put new ones on car's good to go the way doc martin does it essentially is if the tires wear down you kind of have to take the whole engine out of the car and like save it a little bit but like part of it's ruined and then you have to put it back in and then you find out like toyota's like oh by the way you can't get the good tires for this car anymore because those are ours we won't sell those to you they stitch the welds to the upper and then they heat seal that pvc welt to the sole so they melt the welt to the sole so it becomes one piece of rubber or rubber plastic whatever i said which is great it's fused together it won't separate that's awesome however when you want to replace the actual sole of the boot you have to pull the entire sole off and the welt and the welt's gone which isn't that big of a deal but what is interesting is doc martin doesn't let you get these air walk soles you just can't get them so you have to put a different sole on so then you have the doc martin upper but a different sole it looks a little different boot nerds hate that part two the vegan 1461s the oxford shoes i have worn plenty of boots i've reviewed plenty of boots even before i had a youtube channel i wore boots i'm i break in wool jackets and stuff all the time never bothers me plenty of boots these doc martens are not that bad to break in 1461s broke me they destroyed my tootsies the doc martin store is two and a half miles away from my apartment so i walked there with my shoes on i got there the lady i talked to had a collection of over 100 doc martens but i bought the 1461s and she said are you familiar with the doc martin break-in process i said yes i lied the boots aren't bad like i said i can walk forever with these boots the 1461s i haven't broken in a lot of shoes i probably got like a half mile and then all of a sudden i was like um i think i'm not okay huge blisters in the back really gross i was gonna show them to you and then i was like maybe that's a weird thing to do but just absolutely destroyed my feet 1461's are doc martin's slimmest oxford i really like them we'll get into the material more in depth in a second it is a vegan material and it is a cheaper material to make shoes out of in general but if you watch rose anvil's video on youtube he basically shows that doc martin does make up for this because they don't reduce the price it looks like they increase the quality of the materials on the soles so you have a felted wool midsole so little nicer materials there oh wait a minute it can't be felted wool because that's not vegan it looks like the materials are better maybe they're actually not i'm not too sure it does look like they did beef up the internals to kind of justify the price a little bit more from a business standpoint it's probably more profitable to do that than lower the price so they did do that and i've heard mixed reports from people on the material itself some people say they disintegrate in two weeks and other people are like i've had mine for seven years and they're perfect the thing that people do generally like is that they're a bit better in the water because they're not leather but the only thing i have about that i haven't tried mine in the water interjection i just did a waterproof test and these doc martin boots are actually dramatically more water resistant than i thought so the plastic ones technically would be better in the water because leather does get a little bit softer when it's wet a plastic won't there's a stream down there so i'm going to go in there because that's where all the dead people from the village come out at night and drown you phew just feel like the uh pacing is very quick in this video so i figured i'd just give us all a quick break no music just to give it a little you know split in the half of the video so here we go back to business going to submerge the stitch in much to my delight these boots were fantastic in the water a little bit better than i thought oh really in there the right boots really deep in there i'll be honest i love doing the waterproof tests and i film them but when i try to edit them in i really have no idea what to do because it's just really me standing in the water every few minutes going wow my feet are still drying they'll dry wow sillier than i thought so here's the end they stay dry the entire time they're amazing okay so if you're trying to decide should you get the vegan aka plastic ones or the leather ones i'm not gonna hate on the vegan ones at all but the only reason i think you should get them is if you are vegan because then obviously you can get doc martens otherwise i just think the leather has a better hand feel i do think the plastic ones are probably a little bit better in snow and slush and rain over time but there is such a heavy top coat on the leather ones too that it's probably a marginal difference it's probably not a lot because this acts as kind of a water repellent too and the other thing the original point i had was that and i had to redo this take is plastic i thought well once it's gone it's kind of gone it's ruined you can't really repair it at all but then i thought with the leather ones that heavy top coat flakes off and there's nothing you can really do there either so it's kind of a draw and these boots aren't really meant to be repaired or resold that often you kind of just have to get new ones so they're kind of at a draw besides the fact that leather feels better and when you're aging it you know you're aging leather like you're seeing the creases in leather otherwise it's kind of like bent plastic and i feel like if it didn't have the yellow stitching or the doc martin brand behind it these would be like 20 shoes you find that tj maxx like the 20 plastic shoes that don't breathe that are kind of just gross so unless you're vegan i would get the leather daddies that way you could be a leather daddy the only other thing before we get into made in england doc martens and solaveir is that doc martens all of them do not have a shank so between the heel of your foot and the ball of your foot sometimes on boots there is a shank made of wood metal carbon fiber whatever and the point of that shank is basically to not have the boot bend as much like sag down when you're walking or standing and what that does is basically make your feet less tired throughout the day so that's actually a big thing if you're getting these for comfort maybe look at other options with the shank if you want comfort and style we'll talk about that in a second but that will kind of over time affect you a bit more so doc martens are easier to break in from the start but solar bears are a bit tougher but you'll have more comfort down the line okay well i'm about to blow your freaking mind if someone said hey michael i'm looking to get a pair of doc marten boots my budget is unlimited should i get the made in england ones which are made in england out of better materials better leather better interior materials and all that or should i get the cheap 1460 stupid dumb ones like you have i would actually say get the stupid dumb ones and i'll tell you why in a second but well actually no that's all i had to talk about i'll tell you why now [Music] the reason that i would suggest you get the plain jane doc martens and not the maiden england ones is because yes you'll get a better leather yes the quality of the midsoles will be better but i feel like what you're paying for mostly which is a third of the boot price added on to the made in england versions is the made in england part which is great and that's awesome because it's obviously important but if you're going for pure value and you just want a better built boot that i feel like is where sullivan so i love solaveir i really do and i'm sure i got a manufacturing defect but i do want to say i've worn these boots eight times and so far a tab on the back is ripped off on the right boot and my boot lace snapped so things are not looking good i just reached out to them i'm sure they'll fix it and i'm sure this is a manufacturing defect but whoops silver boots are actually cheaper than doc martin made in england real quick let's go over why doc martens like i said the made in england's better leather so that'll age fine that's probably on par with solar bears there better midsoles that's probably also on par with solaveir with solaveir though it's also a much smaller company they're one of the original makers of the original doc martens their boots have a shank in them so they're a bit more comfortable over long periods of time and they're good year welted in a more regularly accepted way so they're easier to resole the leather being nicer means that you can resolve them and use them a lot more and they'll age cool and if you get the derby eight-eyed boot it's essentially the exact same boot as doc martens so cheaper better quality better features papa john's better ingredients better pizza and it's from the original maker of the boot so you're not really getting a different boot the only thing that they don't do is the yellow stitching so if the yellow stitching is a big deal then you kind of have to get the made in england doc martens if you want to get the highest quality but if it's not i really suggest you go to solaveir check them out see what they have not sponsored by either of these people i would love to be oh i might do a sponsored video soon how exciting is that or a little sponsored blur but anyways that's what i think just gonna sit here in the deserted village of feltville until all the monsters come out and chase the residents away anyways though that is about it i won't lie i'm starting to get the heebie-jeebies especially with my back to the window so i will see you next week if you haven't subscribed please do and we'll go somewhere else scary maybe i'll just turn this into mike's spooky adventures i'm also posting a new video i promise uh this week on michael christie my other youtube channel so subscribe there if you'd like and i'll see you there too we never know you know i actually do know because it's my life but

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Length: 13min 19sec (799 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 26 2022