- February 6th, 2022, 2:08 pm#4966843
first of all: please forgive my bad english.
I recently looked at the - now auctioned - Egon Spengler boots and did some research.
What catched my eye:
1 - the boots do have a brown hue in some areas. This - in my opinion - is present on the boots and is not an issue of lighting.
2 - the boots do have side zippers - but there are no (male) snap fasteners. These were not present at any time since they would have leaved a mark / trace once removed.
Point 1: the brown hues / scuffs suggest, that these boots were originally brown by default...and then were dyed black afterwards. Hold on, I was in touch with a person who had some interesting storys to tell regarding the color and I'll quote him a bit later.
Point 2: we assume that the boots used in the first movie were combat or paratrooper boots from the vietnam war era. We also assume that that there were several manufacturers back in the day, which had a contract with the gouverment. If these boots were factually from this area and were produced stock in the way we see them now on the auction pictures, I can't see why the US gov would have ordered such boots made like this for one reason: the zipper.
There is NO flap on top of the zipper. The flap has a not so stupid purpose. Not only that it is missing on these boots - they were never present.
When used as combat boots - this boot must have leaked as hell through the zipper. I can't imagine such impractical feature on a combat boot any gouverment on this planet would request on an issued gear.
Maybe these were used ONLY by airmen or air personel...but I've gone through tons of images online showing soldiers in the vietnam war...and I was not able to find a SINGLE picture from an airman or air personel wearing side zipper boots.
Now heres are two quoutes from an email conversation with a company named 'Moore Militaria' (TX):
Maybe the above observations and these quotes lead to a discussion...
I recently looked at the - now auctioned - Egon Spengler boots and did some research.
What catched my eye:
1 - the boots do have a brown hue in some areas. This - in my opinion - is present on the boots and is not an issue of lighting.
2 - the boots do have side zippers - but there are no (male) snap fasteners. These were not present at any time since they would have leaved a mark / trace once removed.
Point 1: the brown hues / scuffs suggest, that these boots were originally brown by default...and then were dyed black afterwards. Hold on, I was in touch with a person who had some interesting storys to tell regarding the color and I'll quote him a bit later.
Point 2: we assume that the boots used in the first movie were combat or paratrooper boots from the vietnam war era. We also assume that that there were several manufacturers back in the day, which had a contract with the gouverment. If these boots were factually from this area and were produced stock in the way we see them now on the auction pictures, I can't see why the US gov would have ordered such boots made like this for one reason: the zipper.
There is NO flap on top of the zipper. The flap has a not so stupid purpose. Not only that it is missing on these boots - they were never present.
When used as combat boots - this boot must have leaked as hell through the zipper. I can't imagine such impractical feature on a combat boot any gouverment on this planet would request on an issued gear.
Maybe these were used ONLY by airmen or air personel...but I've gone through tons of images online showing soldiers in the vietnam war...and I was not able to find a SINGLE picture from an airman or air personel wearing side zipper boots.
Now heres are two quoutes from an email conversation with a company named 'Moore Militaria' (TX):
look like 1950s standard leather combat boots with zippers added (the zippers are 100% not factory). The eay to mid 60s McNamara boots lacked the capped toe. These also look like they may be brown overdyed to blackand
all boots made before 56 were brown vs black. Then when they switched the Army ordered all leather goods suck as boots and holsters over dyed. When looking at the toe scuffs etc they look brown and the black looks thin in the photos. The boot laces are also brown which gives the impression they are an older pair that was recycled. As for the zippers, there are no contract boots with zippers. There are some private purchase boots with factory boots (think Tanker boots and Corcoran makes some newer jump boots with zipper) but many were retrofitted with zippers by cobblers near bases. They just don’t have a factory style appearance and again these are an infantry leather combat boot which was never made with a zipperI wanted to repost some pics from the auction, highlighting all the details but I don't know if it's allowed to repost them here.
Maybe the above observations and these quotes lead to a discussion...
Last edited by Kingpin on February 7th, 2022, 11:55 am, edited 1 time in total.Reason: Added quote coding