![]() ![]() I also wear them around my apartment all the time during the winter since I seem to always have cold feet. Camp socks are wonderful for keeping your toes warm in your boots. I chose to go with the regular Bean boots and purchased several pairs of camp socks. Original Post To Thinsulate Or Not To Thinsulate (Or Gore-Tex and Shearling-Lined)īefore I purchased my Bean boots, I carefully weighed my options and thought about going with the Thinsulate, Gore-Tex or Shearling-Lined boots. I would probably go with the original tan/brown if I had purchased the 6 inch boots because it’s the most neutral. The 8 inch boots come in more colors than the 6 inch boots, I chose the navy since that’s the color I wear most often. I chose the 8 inch Bean boots because growing up in Buffalo, it’s pretty common to have snow drifts over 8 inches and I wanted to make sure I was covered! Since moving to DC, I love my 8 inch Bean boots with our city’s tendency for serious downpours that cause lake-like puddles. There are also Mocs, which are easy to slip into and great to wear if you’re a gardener like my mom. The original Bean boots for women come in 6 inch and 8 inch. ![]() Original Post Pick What Height You Like Best So without further ado, here’s my guide to buying Bean boots! ![]() If you haven’t already invested in a pair of Bean boots, I highly suggest you snag a pair now before they sell out. Not to mention getting to break out my Bean boots. Next weekend I’m going on a vineyard tour with friends AND my best friend Kendall from LA is coming to visit!! We haven’t seen each other in a WHOLE YEAR so going to Cactus Cantina for frozen swirl margaritas (A college favorite) has been in our planners for weeks now.Īt some point during the long weekend, I’m going to need to buckle down and finish switching out my closet, an unfortunate necessity when your apartment doesn’t have a closet. But after getting my first hit of autumn on Saturday, I’m officially ready to pull out the puffer vests + riding jackets. I can tell October’s going to be a great month already. Plus, given the raised heel and 8-inch shaft, you're guaranteed to keep dry even if the water level rises past puddle-height.Happy Monday! Can you believe it’s already October?! Where did September go? I feel like it was August,I blinked and suddenly it’s October. These boots worked well in every situation, thus confirming their ability to keep your feet dry no matter how much (or which kind) of precipitation you get. As such, I had ample opportunities to test these: through light springtime mists, end-of-summer rain storms, dewy, early-fall mornings and mid-winter downpours, which we got in lieu of snow. Pittsburgh, where I live, and where I tested these boots, gets a lot of rain. Again, this is partly my own doing by suffering through what I'd assume is the wrong size, but I'm sure I'm not alone - hence this warning. During the first half-dozen wears, my heel consistently lifted out of the cup and rubbed on the rear spine, causing red spot that came just short of becoming a painful blister. With sizing issues comes shifting, which causes blisters. Those early pairs came apart, but this incident spurred perhaps the brand's most popular design feature - maybe behind the duckbill toe, though. As early prototypes, they came without Bean's now-famous triple-line stitching finish, which secures the rubber outsole to the leather upper. He grew tired of traditional boots that'd get soggy in the sole, therefore combining the comfortability of rubber-soled shoes with the durability promised by leather uppers.Īs the story famously goes, though, 90 of the first 100 boots sold were returned. (They're really just rain boots, though.) The brand's founder, Leon Leonwood Bean, first stitched them together for his own journeys, but eventually sold 100 pairs to close friends and family members - as well as others in Maine. Bean's iconic Bean Boots were then called the Maine Hunting Shoe, but have since adopted more colloquial catch-alls: Bean Boots or Duck Boots, for short. Bean Bean Boots: Testing Notes They're an iconic product with a timeless look.įirst built in 1912, L.L. Finding the right fit can prove difficult and may require wearing double socks.Heeled outsole is a little wobbly to walk in. ![]()
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