It was a Tuesday in Montreal, February 2019. I was walking toward a bakery called Kouign-Amann—if you’ve been, you know the line is worth the frostbite—and I was wearing a brand new pair of $400 shearling-lined boots. They looked rugged….
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It was November 2018, Chicago, and it was about five degrees outside. I was standing in the middle of a Bloomingdale’s on Michigan Avenue, sweating through my coat, while a very polite sales associate named Marcus tried to help me…
Salt is the absolute worst. It’s not just the way it looks—that white, crusty ring that makes your $400 boots look like they were fished out of a shipwreck—it’s what it does to the fibers. Salt is like a microscopic…
I was standing in a Midtown slush puddle in February 2021, and I could feel it. That slow, icy creep of moisture hitting my right big toe. I had just spent $280 on a pair of ‘waterproof’ leather boots from…