Dr Martens

[RadcliffeRick]

When I wore the docs all the guys had them and the girls wore monkey boots. Happy days.

 

[Deleted member 13905]

how old were you with your first pair? black or brown, low riders or tall boys?
I was 12, brown with yellow laces, Rat fucking hard me

I just saw some in a store over the weekend, made in China bullshit! made me very sad as I grew up 7 miles from the original factory

i know i'm being a grammar wanker, i don't care.
could you be a good chap and sort the title out.

 

[stonerblue]

Tried the old, hot knife weld trick on a pair of mine. What a fuck up that was. Has there ever been a more misleading urban myth?

Actually, that is the traditional way to do it. Obviously not with a bent butter knife or after 4 cans of white lightning.
It's a quick way to do them, heat knife them off, heat knife new unit on. Takes a lot of skill to get it right.
Personally i use PA adhesive and a heat lamp. Works a treat.
The cutter used for trimming the edges is a monster, one slip and finger gone.

 

[Barcon]

1st pair would have been used off Newton Heath market. Black, square toe.
I have a pair of black D.M shoes now, so does the wife.

 

[GazM]

Cherry red 8 hole 1979. Thought I was the dogs wotsits.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Ugly - never understood the appeal. never had any.

 

[Meatbag]

My first pair when I was 17 were black and 8 eyelet. Then I got into the cherry reds and they had to be 10.

I've actually still got the pair I wore about 1996, still plenty of wear left in 'em (if I could just get round to cleaning off the mud from the Stone Roses Heaton park gig)

 

[idahoblues]

Airwair still operate out of a village near me. They have a slightly seconds shop. Get some decent boots at cheap prices.

Was that Rushden?

 

[Mike N]

Got mine when I was 12. They really were the most comfortable boots ever.

 

[idahoblues]

i know i'm being a grammar wanker, i don't care.
could you be a good chap and sort the title out.

That's an acceptable grammar call, I realised I'd fucked it up as soon as I posted it.

Anyway there's a great book full of glossy pics of bands, punks,, cops and anybody who wore them back in the day, just called Dr Martens Airwair