Hello!<br />Doc Mart pair number seven for me, and I must say that despite the excellent look of these boots. . . .well they kind of just plain suck.<br /><br />Reasons they suck:<br /><br />Break in: I understand that docs take a long time to break in, but wow. These were about the most horrific and painful boot I ever owned for about three months. I did all the classic things we used to do to break in combat boots when I was in the army, (oil, shower in them, beat them to a pulp) and nothing but time and pain seemed to do the job. Before you go off on how they probably didn't fit proper. . . .no. No they definitely fit very well.<br />To emphasize how hard the leather was on these boots, understand that after 4 months of owning them, I still didn't want to wear them on a cross country motorcycle trip.<br />Needless to say, eventually they got pretty comfy.<br /><br />Looks: they look sharp, however, it is very easy to tell that they were assembled out of patchwork leather. My toes are two completely different colours. COMPLETELY. Like night and day.<br />Pretty cool, Doc.<br /><br />Quality quality quality:<br /><br />This is where things get nice; I was in my driveway destroying something ransom and discovered something under my bum that I was sitting on. What was it you ask? Oh, nothing more than the heel of my boot! Just decided to spontaneously fall off.<br />They went for some sort of stacked leather idea on the soles, but went the air cushion route they always do, yet in the process sewed the front of the boot on (good idea, thank you, common practice and sense) but glued the back portion on, using some sort of quality of glue you used to eat as a child.<br />So yeah. . .that happened.<br /><br />They've been gluing together under 5 C Clamps in my garage for the last 24 hours.<br /><br />If this is a reflection of your quality, I feel as though you should drop the doctorate portion of your name. For shame.