05 October 2010

Timberland - 25 Years Later

Ellis Island- April 1985



Timberland, NYC- October 2010
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9 comments:

Anonymous said...

same pair?

05 October, 2010 13:04
ADG said...

Those boots now have a new set of adjectives right? Let me go to the J. Crew catalog and round some up for us!

05 October, 2010 13:08
Anonymous said...

Timberland today is not was it was in the eighties - Today: made in china or dom rep, and after two years you can throw them away.

05 October, 2010 13:44
Anonymous said...

Timberland: made for big sky, wide open...urban experiences. Save your pennies for RedWings.

Better yet, show up at the next art opening in uber-functional 'Nam-era surplus jungle boots, and really put a scare into everyone...weeks ahead of Halloween.

-DB

05 October, 2010 16:05
Kathy said...

Three years ago, shopping at the Rehoboth Outlets, I asked my then 17-year old son if he'd like a pair of Timberland boots for the next school year. He all but took me by the lapels, asked me if I'd like to see him get his a** kicked at school by kids of a different color. Now (and I work at a different high school) I see kids of ALL stripes wearing Timberlands. What gives?

05 October, 2010 20:41
Main Line Sportsman said...

They do hold up don't they...I have run thru many a pair...I just wish they re-soled better...

05 October, 2010 22:46
SkinnyGuinea said...

I had a pair of those with red-brick soles in 1986, I shit you not.
Everyone else had the Vibram lugs on theirs. Mine were on sale or something. I wore the absolute piss outta them.

06 October, 2010 06:45
Oyster Guy said...

Timberland you say ? A product that I used to like but no confuses me. They went all hip hop a few years ago. I doubt Buffy would approve.

There just is something suspicious about the current workmanship I can't quite pin down. I went from a fan to a skeptic and who would ever want to feel that way about what you wear.

In the early 80's they made a 3 eyed scuppered soled boat shoe that I might argue was among the best that ever was. Of course they stopped making those.

06 October, 2010 14:14
Dustin Deed said...

sometime in the late 90s when i didn't know any different, i bought a pair of these at a sporting goods store that was going out of business. it was pretty much the height of timbs in the hip hop scene and i felt funny wearing them so they got stashed in the closet. a couple of years ago i came across them again and noticed that they were made in the u.s. from "imported materials". have been wearing them in the muck and snow ever since. classic, solid boot.

i haven't checked out the construction of the new versions of this boot so i can't comment on that but i will say that the 3-eye lug boat shoe - another classic -is still a well-made shoe from timberland.

08 October, 2010 12:25

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