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Post by davefirestorm on Dec 27, 2014 22:38:24 GMT
I've had a couple of pairs bought via ebay shop ( not this one)in black though,and also for less than that very comfy and hard wearing
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Post by scania on Dec 27, 2014 23:50:01 GMT
When i had a pair in the 70s it meant you were tough, but if you had a pair of 12 holers you were hard as f...k lol I had a pair of 8 hollers in the 1980's, the guys with the 12 hollers used to go around pulling up the leg of their trousers showing them off. I remember I was often asking my old man to get me various things which he considered to be rubbish, portable space invader games etc. When I asked for money to get a pair of Docs I was shocked at how he jumped to it as a great idea, I was surprised at how surprised he was that I wanted to buy something useful for a change. As it happened I got a cold and was in bed a few days of school and he went into town and bought them. He showed them to me shining brand new and then that evening well intentioned he rubbed 'Dubon' onto them which he said would preserve them and stop them cracking. When I saw them the next morning they looked like a pair of old well worn boots that had been rescued from a canal and I could not get them to shine up with black polish as they were saturated in the greasy Dubon. I got about 10 winters out of them, the soles eventually wore thin and the air pockets punctured but the leather and the stitching never went. I accidently left them behind at a soccer match and never saw them again. I have just decided I am going to buy a new pair of 12 holler docs in the January 2015 Dublin Sales !
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Post by scania on Dec 28, 2014 0:01:20 GMT
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Post by Harold on Dec 28, 2014 18:21:18 GMT
To me Doc Martens will always be synonymous with Skinheads, of which there were many when I was growing up in the 80's. The more eyelets the better I think the highest were 22 eyelet worn with bleached drain pipe jeans which just came to the top of the DM' s. Those were the days:) This Is England brings it all back
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