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[gildedcentury.livejournal.com]

Country Gentleman January 1942

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[auntie-lovie.livejournal.com]

I would like a pair of the ones in the middle, ladies size 7, please.

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

Aww, these bring me back to my grandfather...who always had a pair of the top ones around. Rubber, cracking, made to go over boots; I still remember the felt-like feel of the inside and the sharpness of the metal buckles.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

That sounds like the start of a great story! Keep going! ;)

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

What? No snarky comments about the brand name?

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

Wow. The top boots remind me of the ones we had when we were kids. I remember lines of 'em in front of all the winter coats in elementary school.

Dunno why, but it's the clip-buckle thingies on 'em that I seem to remember the most. After a bit of time tromping around in snow and slush they could get a bit of ice on 'em and be hard to unfasten.

cool!

[radteacherally.livejournal.com]

These are still sold! I used to work at a shoe store that sold these. We sold a few of the higher ones but we sold more of the two-buckle ones. Guys who wore work boots would get them and stretch them over the bottoms of their boots to help keep them waterproof. You have to go a few sizes bigger if you want to do that though.

(I know too much about shoes!!!!)