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by buggeryorkshire 52 days ago
So glad they called out Solovair as a replacement for Doc Martens.

My first pair of DMs lasted me 7 Glastonbury Festivals - and if you'd ever been there you know the muddy ones are a mare, I average 40000 steps a day at the festival and just trying to lift your feet up in thickening and warming mud is a nightmare. Only threw them as I couldn't bear to clean them.

Next two pairs of DMs after moving the manufacturing to Thailand? Crap. Didn't even last a single festival, soles came apart, waterproofing was non-existent.

Solovair are fantastic. They're using the original tooling in the original DM factory. Expensive but worth it.