After buying a $70 pair of Vans at famous footwear and having them literally fall apart after using them as daily walking shoes, I’ve realized the quality of shoes overall has gone down over the last decade or so.
I don’t mind if they cost $100 or more, are there medium-light weight walking shoes that can withstand the horrors of walking on pavement? I remember checking out some Ecco shoes at the mall years ago, didn’t pull the trigger as they were almost $300 but the way the construction was described to me it sounds like those could last 5+ years.
What shoes do you have that you wear almost daily (not during the winter), and have had for almost a year but aren’t falling apart?
Red Wing. Pricey, but they’ll last forever. Made in the US too.
I second this. Have both a pair of boots and shoes. Even though I haven’t been good at keeping them the boots has lasted eight years by now, and the shoes three. The boots will need a resole at some point, but for now all that has broken is one of the shoelaces. Shoes just got dirty so far
I went through 3 pairs of redwings over the course of a few years until I switched to timberlands so I personally did not have a good experience with them. Now, to be fair, these are the boots I wear to work everyday and beat them to absolute shit for 40-50 hours a week. The most common problem I would run into with redwings was the waterproof seal would degrade which would result in water leaking into them and just destroying them from the inside out, or the toe of the boot would get torn up, my timberlands seem to be holding up better in that regard. But again, I abuse these things every day at work so if you’re just wearing red wings casually they should last years.