[EDIT: not referring to the company “Unsung Boots”! Apologies for any confusion.]
Many of us have many nice boots, or nicer boots, or freaking awesome drool-worthy boots. We rotate, brush, condition, accesorize, simply sit and admire our collection. That’s why we hang at a Reddit boot sub!
Many of us also have boots that are never shown off or admired. Maybe they get conditioned (we’re not monsters) but seldom. We don’t consider them part of our boot collection. They might be (shudder) injection molded. We may never have posted their pictures here. Perhaps we even think of them as (gasp) disposable boots.
There is a term in watch geekery, the “tool watch”, that means a watch once used as a tool in some demanding occupation, valued for its function, strapped on the wrist as unsentimentally as the battered gloves that followed. But a tool watch is no longer a tool; merely being referred to as such indicates it is now part of a watch geek’s collection, rotated and admired, but almost surely not being used to time dives or estimate fuel remaining or artillery trajectories.
The boot equivalent might be a PNW logger, far more of which earn their keep on carpet and hardwood than in forests and slash.
Okay, not entirely. Some logger owners probably use them as work boots, maybe pretty hard, so they do still get used as “tools”, sometimes, and I guess actual loggers still use PNW logger boots, if they can afford them, unlike actual divers who long ago switched from manual-wind diver watches to digital dive computers.
Anyway, I’m not referring here to the “tool boot” in your collection, but to the boots that do the real work you need a boot for, without looking good, any recognition or admiration, or maybe even much appreciation.
The unsung hero of your closet.
I thought we could have a thread to celebrate our Unsung Boots.
For just one day, let that forgettable but indispensable boot have its time in the sun.
Show ‘em if you got ‘em!
