I have just noticed that there is a hole in my boots.
To test the hypothesis that modern materials science and manufacturing techniques had rendered obsolete Sam Vimes’ famous saying about boots, last autumn I bought the cheapest winter boots available at Walmart.
They are not fashionable, well-fitting, or particularly warm, but they looked indestructible and waterproof — made of seemingly tough material with good think soles. The soles probably are indeed indestructible, but just at the heel where they meet the other part of the boot, some kind of design flaw has resulted in a hole in exactly the same spot on each boot after only one winter of light use.
I will patch them and see if the repair holds next year.
Where is the hole?
The shoes
Well that’s rather a personal question, isn’t it??
The holes are right at the bottom of the outer shell of the boot. It’s a spot that never makes any contact with the ground or anything else, so it’s just due to repeated flexing wearing out the material. Wouldn’t be a problem if I didn’t need them to be waterproof.
It remains to be seen if it’s just some kind of pressure point affecting only that spot, or whether the whole thing is going to disintegrate.
@kbal @How_do_I_computah I bought a pair of boots that exhibited this fault. Not even a year has passed, and the soles still have all the tread. Was considering goo this week, or back to the shop.