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Doc Martens are back in

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  • #32
    Moonbeam
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,029 Mod ✭✭✭✭Moonbeam


    They were gone?
    I have about 6 pairs and love them all:)


  • #33
    Rubeter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 390 ✭✭Rubeter


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    I am afraid I go back even further, and am still wearing them. But nowadays they are no longer made in UK (the good ones) as a result, the stuff being made in far east is not lasting anywhere near as long....
    Stopped wearing them myself once the quality went. Waste of money now (for quality that is, fashion each to their own).


  • #34
    Umekichi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 474 ✭✭Umekichi


    Rubeter wrote: »
    Stopped wearing them myself once the quality went. Waste of money now (for quality that is, fashion each to their own).

    I tend now to get the "Doc Marten Style" boots online, means that I have the look of a pair of Doc Martens, the same quality of a pair but for half nothing. That way I am not forking out €100+ for boots that are poor quality.


  • #35
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Rubeter wrote: »
    Stopped wearing them myself once the quality went. Waste of money now (for quality that is, fashion each to their own).
    Go down to the local tradesmen suppliers and get a good pair of work boots with anti-static soles, steel toe caps/heel caps and sole plates, watertight and often resistant to chemical burns. A proper boot not a fashion accessory masquerading as a boot.


  • #36
    ElvisChrist6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 595 ✭✭✭ElvisChrist6


    SV wrote: »
    Back in what? White Pride gangs?

    ಠ_ಠ


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  • #37
    elefant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,697 ✭✭✭elefant


    Never liked them at all myself


  • #38
    Rubeter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 390 ✭✭Rubeter


    ScumLord wrote: »
    Go down to the local tradesmen suppliers and get a good pair of work boots with anti-static soles, steel toe caps/heel caps and sole plates, watertight and often resistant to chemical burns. A proper boot not a fashion accessory masquerading as a boot.
    Oh I have my boots well sorted, tend to get 2 years out of a pair now and I only have one pair at a time.
    It's a pity about the Docs though because they were brilliant. Hardwearing, looked good and bouncy bouncy. :)


  • #39
    DonkeyStyle \o/
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    Well thank God they've made it back onto the list of approved footwear. I wouldn't be seen dead in anything that some other random gobshítes didn't approve of. lol, humans


  • #40
    Bog Standard User
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 847 ✭✭✭Bog Standard User


    at least doc martins are alot nicer to look at than those rotten ugg boots


  • #41
    salacious crumb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    I am afraid I go back even further, and am still wearing them. But nowadays they are no longer made in UK (the good ones) as a result, the stuff being made in far east is not lasting anywhere near as long....


    I alternate between the industrial docs and the standard steel toe ten hole jobs. Usually get four or five years out of a pair.


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  • #42
    salacious crumb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I loved my docs back in the day. I had loads of black pairs, and I had ox blood ones, and purple ones too!

    I might buy a pair, now that they're back in like :P

    Fashion victim :rolleyes:

    :p


  • #43
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Bog Standard User wrote: »
    at least doc martins are alot nicer to look at than those rotten ugg boots

    To be sure. I remember when the young wans started wearing those things some years ago, thinking to myself "Inuit sealskin boots?? Right - that's me done trying to fathom girls and fashion!" :D


  • #44
    Hoop66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,273 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    I'm wearing a pair right now.

    These bad boys. Or close to.

    I have been dubbin-ing them monthly for the last 3 years and they are the most comfortable boots I have ever worn.

    so...in conclusion..DMs rule!

    *goes over waterfall making devil horns*


  • #45
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Bog Standard User wrote: »
    at least doc martins are alot nicer to look at than those rotten ugg boots

    I like uggs, purely for heat and comfort. The fake ones look awful though, the "real" ones hold their shape. If you see someone wearing a pair and they're bent at the sole like this - then they are cheap imitations. I've a pair of these and I love them so so much. Money well spent, they're still like new despite wearing them constantly throughout winter. Even wore them to Electric Picnic. So comfy!


  • #46
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Rubeter wrote: »
    Oh I have my boots well sorted, tend to get 2 years out of a pair now and I only have one pair at a time.
    It's a pity about the Docs though because they were brilliant. Hardwearing, looked good and bouncy bouncy. :)
    I love my work boots, they make me feel invincible, I can go around kicking things without a care in the world. Take that timber door, bam! Take that stone wall, bam! Come across someone that's locked their keys in their car, take that car window, bam!


  • #47
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Dermighty wrote: »
    Wore a pair for 6 months as work boots (bouncer). What a load of sh!te, not comfortable, not durable and overall a bad product.

    You were obviously doing it wrong. I wear doc shoes every day to work. Wore 10 and 14 home boots for years. Most comfortable durable shoe ever.


  • #48
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    Doc Boots were fine. I had a few pairs of 10 hole in my time.

    Doc shoes just weren't cool though.


  • #49
    Witchie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    I got my first pair when I was 15 and my dad went mad saying "no daughter of mine is wearing workman's boots" so had to hide them in the garage and sneak out in them. I had purple laces.

    Wore them intermittently for years now but found a lovely Doc style flowery pair in Dunnes last March and have been wearing them since. They are starting to fall apart but thats no shocker coz am very hard on shoes with my slightly gammy feet. Was online all morning trying to find a nice replacement pair.

    I need more docs coz have 15 pairs of converse but its time I grew up a little and wore something else.


  • #50
    HarrisonLennon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 226 ✭✭HarrisonLennon


    wildlifeboy wrote: »
    I bought a pair of black 12 holes 2 christmas's ago and all my friends laughed at me. oh how the laugh is on the other side of their face now!

    As a Doc Martin wearer 40% of my every week for years. I shudder when they come "back in"

    Maybe you bought them for the wrong reasons.


  • #51
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    gramar wrote: »
    Doc Boots were fine. I had a few pairs of 10 hole in my time.

    Doc shoes just weren't cool though.

    No but they were soooo comfy, I had them as school shoes.

    I was never one of the cool kids!

    My grandad bought all of our shoes when we were kids, my parents couldn't have afforded docs at all at all.


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  • #52
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I feel all nostalgic now. I remember how a new pair of DM's would rip the heels off you. No matter how much padding I put on the back of my heels there'd still be blood patches on the leather from where they'd torn my heels. You had to break them in. Then I moved on to caterpillar ladies boots, then high heels. Now it's boring Reiker footwear for me. I feel old now:(


  • #53
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    Just seen a pic there, I had an idea what they looked like but jesus..those really are awful.
    Almost as bad as that Converse shíte!


  • #54
    DonkeyStyle \o/
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    gramar wrote: »
    Doc Boots were fine. I had a few pairs of 10 hole in my time.
    Oh wow, I remember when people counted the holes. As a kid in the 80's, getting kicked by a pair of 24 hole dock martens would apparently hurt more than 16 hole dock martens. As if it was some measure of power. lol, I miss the 80's... I could go into town as a 8 year old and buy ninja stars and a rambo knife. So much fun. :D


  • #55
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Deleted User wrote: »
    No but they were soooo comfy, I had them as school shoes.

    I was never one of the cool kids!

    My grandad bought all of our shoes when we were kids, my parents couldn't have afforded docs at all at all.


    Our mother used bring the six of us down to some shop in Kilkenny and she'd kit us all out with "school shoes" for the coming year, then the uniforms in Shaws, we looked like the frickin' Gestapo all piling out of the van in front of the school gates every September! :o


  • #56
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    gramar wrote: »
    Doc Boots were fine. I had a few pairs of 10 hole in my time.

    Doc shoes just weren't cool though.

    Would beg to differ, I wouldn't buy them to be cool, but there is a huge range, and whats cool to one person...................


  • #57
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Love docs :D

    I've got 7 pairs at the moment, or is it 8? they're awesome, got a few different styles from classic boots, heels, mary janes and currently wearing a knee high pair :D I'm nearly always wearing my 1914 triumphs,


  • #58
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    SV wrote: »
    Just seen a pic there, I had an idea what they looked like but jesus..those really are awful.
    Almost as bad as that Converse shíte!
    Blasphemy, you leave my Converse out of this:P


  • #59
    salacious crumb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    Blasphemy, you leave my Converse out of this:P

    Converse may look pretty, but they're **** for walking on the cobblestones in Temple Bar :pac:


  • #60
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    Blasphemy, you leave my Converse out of this:P

    Ah they're terrible looking yokes! Honestly never understood the appeal


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  • #61
    Umekichi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 474 ✭✭Umekichi


    salacious crumb wrote: »
    Converse may look pretty, but they're **** for walking on the cobblestones in Temple Bar :pac:

    Or on ice :/
    It's like you are skiing down the slopes :D


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