I'm in the market for some new work boots they half to be steel toed. I'm looking for some nice work boots I have a pair of sketchers now but they are years old and hurting my feet and would like to go back to boots. I need some that are comfortable for hours upon hours of standing and walking. I've heard from several people that Red Wings are the best what do you guys suggest? Oh and I'd like to stay around $100 or less.
Red Wings, Red Wings, Red Wings. I refuse to wear anything else.
Of course for $100 or less you're not going to get much, I think even a pair of Rockies will run you in the $135 Range. Red Wing is the best there is, and you're going to pay for it.
But consider this, I used to wear the sub $100 work boots (Wolverines to be exact) and they'd last me about 5-6 months before the sole was falling off and I'd have to replace the laces once a month.
With my Red Wings, I actually got the most expensive pair. Which makes them a perfect example for this.
I paid $300 for my boots over a year ago, in December 2009. By now I'd have had to buy 3 pairs of the sub $100 boots, which were costing me about $70 a pair. So by now I'd have spent $210 on boots anyway, not counting the extra cost of laces. If I can get another 6-12 months out of them, then they really wouldn't have cost me anything more than the cheap boots.
However my Red Wings are still in one piece and still ready for anything else I can dish out.
They also have some other nice features that I've come to appreciate. Unlike most other brands when Red Wing says waterproof, they mean it. I've been in basements flooded with six inches of water before for 1-2 hours and my feet still stayed dry. Now here's the part that really impressed me.
The model I chose is puncture resistant, it has a steel plate between the sole and my foot. I jumped down from a customer's knee wall onto a fallen limb from a tree with a huge thorn in it. Instead of the thorn going through my foot, the boots stopped it and I didn't even notice I had landed on it until I started walking away and the tree limb was dragging behind me.
Even after that, with the huge hole I now have in the bottom of my sole, my boots are still 100% waterproof.
To top it all off, I haven't even broken my first lace yet. But when I do, I'm not worried. They have a laces for life policy. Just bring the broken ones in and get a new pair. They even gave me a spare pair when I bought the boots so I wouldn't be lace-less until I had time to bring the broken ones in.
These boots are truly "Made like they used to be"
Then factor in the actual buying experience. The manager at my local Redwing store was amazing, he asked me questions about every aspect of my job so he could recommend a sole design and a feature set in the price point I was requesting. He had actually recommended a $180 pair of boots, but I decided to splurge and call it a Christmas present to myself.
Now, unlike a lot of places I've been, Red Wing sizes their boots not only by length, but also by width. I have pretty wide feet so he ended up ordering six pairs of boots to find a pair that fit me perfectly. Then instead of giving me a hard time about having to order so many pairs, he gave me a discount because it had taken 2 weeks to get the boots there.
Couple a quality product like that with amazing service like that, and it's clear why I won't put on any other brand of shoes.
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