A
wonderful brand of
boots. We're not talking
Doc Martens here, you'll get some pretty
strange looks if you wear your Sorrels out on the
dance floor. We're talking the kind of boots you'd wear if it was
January, you were in Northern
Minnesota and it was time to go chop some
wood for the
fire.
The boots are comprised of two parts, the
shell and the
liner. The shell is
leather, with a
rubber sole. The
tongue is stitched to the boot on both sides so it's not much of a tongue at all. This prevents
water,
snow and whatever else you might step in from getting into the boot. Of course I remember
learning the hard way that once the water got to be more than about
eight inches deep what is designed to keep water out also keeps water in. It was always
amazing to get home and see just how much water those boots could hold as I dumped it out on to the
kitchen floor (much to my mother's
chagrin).
The liners were also
nifty. They have fake
fur at the top to keep snow out of your boot. Of course, this does nothing to keep water from spilling over the
top of the boot. The liners are
removable which is nice for two reasons.
First, if you're an elementry
school student who likes to walk through the
swamp on his way
home from school, this
facilitates the drying of the boot as you can place the liner on the
heat vent and it will be ready for you the next
morning.
Second,
wool (or whatever these things are made of) wears out much more quickly than the leather and rubber of the shells. When your liners
wear out you can buy new ones for a
fraction of the cost of new boots.