Solovair
Solovair's Wollaston factory made Dr. Martens for decades before that contract went overseas, and it still Goodyear-welts 8-eye and 11-eye derbies onto air-cushioned soles.
8 boots tracked · from $189
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Boots like Dr. Martens
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12 brands that actually make boots and sit close to Dr. Martens on style and price — each with what it does differently.
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Clarks
Clarks Originals put the Desert Boot and Wallabee on crepe rather than air-cushioned soles, another British firm whose plain silhouettes were claimed by successive subcultures.
15 boots tracked · from $215
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Blundstone
Blundstone has made elastic-sided boots in Hobart since 1870, swapping the 1460's laces and yellow welt stitch for a pull-on gusset over a urethane sole.
17 boots tracked · from $195
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Red Wing Shoes
Red Wing has built boots in Minnesota since 1905, and the Iron Ranger and Classic Moc use oil-tanned leather and welts made to be resoled indefinitely.
142 boots tracked · from $245
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Danner
Danner hand-builds part of its Portland line and recrafts worn pairs, with the stitchdown Mountain Light and Gore-Tex Danner Light aimed at trails rather than pavement.
12 boots tracked · from $99
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Frye
Frye has worked leather since 1863, and its harness and banana-yellow Campus boots offer an American Western silhouette carrying the same decades of subcultural baggage.
11 boots tracked · from $359
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Timberland
Timberland's 6-Inch Premium yellow boot travelled the same route from worksite to hip-hop staple, waterproof nubuck standing in for polished leather and yellow stitching.
4 boots tracked · from $324
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Wolverine
American footwear brand founded in Rockford, Michigan in 1883, known for durable work boots and its leather 1000 Mile heritage collection.
12 boots tracked · from $93
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Keen
American outdoor footwear label known for the toe-bumper Newport sandal and UNEEK, founded in California in 2003 and based in Portland, Oregon since 2006.
6 boots tracked · from $140
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Neighborhood
Biker-punk codes pushed into Tokyo streetwear
3 boots tracked · from $143
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Viberg Boots
Third-generation Canadian bootmaker in Victoria, BC, hand-building Service Boots and welted footwear in premium Horween and shell cordovan leathers.
362 boots tracked · from $667
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Unmarked
Mexican footwear label from León making handcrafted leather boots and shoes that blend traditional shoemaking with contemporary design.
157 boots tracked · from $210
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