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so White's boots are probably one of the
top three best American made handmade boot companies in the world in America and they
just came out with their first boot under $300 and it happens to be a moc toe so let's cut it
open and see what's inside of it so these are the very last boots of this year's moctober we
got the finale on Sunday November 1st and then Saturday for halloween the halloween special I got
a wild pair of boots uh that you guys are going to like but for the moc toe finale I got trenton
and heath and strideways with the guest appearance so that one's going to be really fun so look out
for that one and uh if you haven't subscribed consider doing it because i'm trying to get that
300,000 subscriber mark by the end of the year so that Ican do these things give away some boots to
you guys into some homeless and some store credit so now let's get back to these boots so
now let's go over the boot information and kind of the backstory of these boots so these
boots just came out this year on september 4th and immediately everyone was blowing up
my comments sections and dms wanting to get these on the upcoming moctober series and I
assumed that I wouldn't be able to do them because all of White's boots are pretty pricey they're
in that five to six hundred dollar price range and then I looked at the price tag and they're
less than the Red Wing moc toes so that was really surprising to me and i'm really interested to see
what's inside of these boots because as far as I know no one knows exactly what's going inside of
going on inside of here no one's seen a complete cross-section and no one really knows every single
component of this boot so i'm really excited to do kind of a first look inside of White's first sub
$300 boot and their very first moc toe so back to the boot information so the brand is White's
the model is their Perry boot and it's it's named after the Perry District in Spokane the color is
distressed and that's the only color they have right now the price tag is $269 dollars they weigh
one pound 13 ounces and they're made in Spokane, Washington USA now let's go over the information
that we can gather about these boots before we cut them in half starting with the leather so this
is a full grain chrome tanned leather tan by the Seidel tannery here in the United States and it's
a pretty thick leather it's it's 2.8 millimeters to three millimeters thick which is thicker than
any other any of the other moc toes that we've cut and have and the temper of this leather is
it's not quite as firm as the Red Wings but not nearly as soft as the thorogoods so kind of a just
a fairly medium tempered fairly malleable leather that still gives you a little bit of structure
next is the construction so it's a 360 goodyear welted boot just like I think all the rest of
them except for the Danner's but this is a it's a little bit of a storm well where the welt goes up
just a little bit up the side of the upper to give it a little bit more water protection a little
more dirt protection but it's not like a full storm well where it's split and it goes halfway
or it goes like a quarter of an inch up the boot just a little bit of a storm welt and then to the
construction of the upper so these boots are built a lot like their regular $500 work boots where
you've got the four rows of stitching where the vamp meets the upper you've got the three rows of
stitching around the counter you got the big back stay and then just the general stitching around
everywhere else and that kind of brings us to the next point which is the counter cover so all
the other boots that we've cut apart have had an internal counter cover where the counter and
the counter cover sits inside of the upper but these boots are built more like their work boots
and all the other really heavy duty work boots where the counter is actually on the outside
of the upper then you've got a piece of leather that covers the counter on the outside the pros of
having an external counter cover encounter is that you don't have that lip inside of your heel that
could catch your heel and give you blisters it's a more comfortable fit and it's allegedly more
durable the only con I could think of is the same potential issue that I saw in the Thursday and
the Carhartt where your heel is rubbing against that seam over and over and over could wear that
seam out but with these boots you've got the extra stitching from the backstay and the counter cover
that even if you did wear through a seam there's tons of other seams and stitching to hold it
together and all the handmade work boot companies do it this way at least most of them so I don't
think it's much of an issue next to the outsole so this is a polyurethane based outsole and
it's actually the same outsole that's put on the Danner's but just branded as whites and I guess
I got the banners wrong because on the Danner's website it says it's a rubber outsole but I'm
talking to the president of Whites he says it's polyurethane based and it has a polyurethane feel
to it and what's interesting is this is actually the same the manufacturer that makes this outsole
makes the Thorogood outsoles and I don't know if it's the exact same compound it feels a little
bit softer so I found it really interesting that the one company that one U.S.
Based company makes
the whites Danner's and Thorogood's outsoles and then the product description says it's got a shank
in here but I don't know if it's actually in the if it's built into the outsole like we saw on
the Danner's or if it sits on top of the outsole kind of like what we saw in the Thorogood's
so I guess we'll see we get it cut in half moving to the inside of the boot so I can feel
there's a leather liner at the vamp the toe area of the boot and it kind of has a suede texture to
it and there's no lining up to shaft of the boot and then to the guts of the boot so the insole
is a full grain leather insole but I don't know how thick it is because you can't tell from the
outside and no one's cut one in half yet and they're supposed to be cork in here but also
we don't know how much and where it's located and other than that the rest of the inside is kind
of a mystery and now to the sizing of these boots so on White's website they recommend going a
full size down from your natural shoe size so if you wear 10 and a half like I do in pretty
much everything you get a nine and a half in these boots or based off your brannock device you
go half a size down so I'm a 10 on the brannock and I needed to go to a nine and a half in these
now to the fit and feel and the overall look of these boots so because this is a medium tempered
leather it's not going to be nearly as hard to break in as some of the other boots and it also
comes with an ortholite insert so instead of just your foot on that leather breaking the leather
insole in you got a little bit of squish to kind of aid with that and ease the break-in process
and these boots are they do have a fair amount of room in the toe box so they're comfortable
you're not squishing your toes and the overall look of them I actually really like the look
of these boots they they have that look of the handmade that pacific northwest boot look with
that external counter cover the heavy stitching so I really like the look of these boots some
people might not as much because they don't look quite as clean as like the red wings and
some of the other more simple flat looking boots but I really like them so that's pretty much
everything and now it's time to cut them in half after we talk about Magic Spoon the sponsor
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to be able to do sponsorships that I believe in that are actually good and that you guys like
because it just makes it easier to do these type of sponsorships so thanks to Magic Spoon for
sponsoring this video and back to the cutting okay we got it cut in half let's see what's inside okay now let's go through the layers and kind of
see what's what and also I forgot to tell you guys Whites sent me this one boot that had a flaw in
it looks like the stitching went up above the welt so I could cut this in half instead of cutting my
own pair in half so I can actually wear these and give an informed review down the road because
I think for next moctober I want to wear all these moc toes that we reviewed in this moctober
throughout the next year and kind of keep track of the time and try to wear them as evenly as
possible that's the one thing my channel lacks is overall experience of feet in the boots
so anyway back to what's inside of these boots so starting with the polyurethane
based outsole so this is the exact same outsole as in the Danner's it's got the internal
shank as we see here so if you like the Danner's you like that outsole you'll like these
as well because it's exact same moving up is the 3.5 millimeter thick rubber midsole so this
is that layer that the welt is sewn to that when when these are resoled they peel this outsole off
and a new one is glow glued to that midsole above that is the cork filling you can see here and then
above that is the 3.5 millimeter thick vegetable tanned full grain leather insole this was thinner
than I expected and I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing or a good thing it's just kind of uh
on on a scale of easy to break in and long lasting you know on the easy to break inside we've got the
fiberboard insoles that break in with a few few times of wearing it versus the hard to break in
long lasting five millimeter thick vegetable tan leather insoles in the Red Wings that take forever
to break in like I've complained about the entire series like those Red Wings are tough under feet
under your foot until you get them broken in so this 3.5 millimeter insole is I think somewhere
in the middle because with it being thinner it's going to be a little bit easier to break in and
it's not going to take three weeks to get your footprint in the boot but it also has some of that
longevity associated with a leather insole so you might get a few more resoles out of this without
needing more of a rebuild and then to maybe the most interesting part about this boot and if you
watched when I was cutting in half I couldn't get through the counter and that's because it's a
compressed cardboard counter um I don't really know how to feel about this because I've never
seen it before I've never had a boot that had a pair of these in them so when I talked to Whites
during the preparation of this video they told me it was a compressed cardboard counter and that
they've used it before in some of their fire boots and they've never had any complaints about it so
based off of what they say it's a decent counter but I've never experienced it so let me know what
you guys think and if you've ever had one of these counters and what your thoughts are on it and
as for the properties of this counter so it's a really hard counter it's not nearly as flexible
as the reconstituted leather counters like we've seen in some of the other boots so in the heel
itself you get a little bit more of a hard cupping heel counter you know there's definitely a
ridge right here of where your heel sits some people might like that some people might hate
it so that's kind of where these long-term wear and reviews come in handy because after a year of
wearing these on and off we should kind of have an idea of how this this heel counter wears in so I'm
really interested to see how this lasts over time so overall what do I think of this boot I'm really
impressed with this boot you know I saw that price point and I saw the name brand and I was a little
bit worried that it was going to be one of those scenes kind of like what we saw with Carhartt
and Doc Martens where a company uses a name to sell a subpar product and make huge margins
on them but I think for the this price this is a really impressive boot and it's it's almost
like they took everything wrong with the Danner's upgraded it and made it better so if you like
Danner's boots you're gonna love these boots because everything is just fixed on it you know
it's got the leather insole it's got the cork it's got a better better leather um it doesn't
have that terrible lining in it so very impressed with these boots as for things I don't like
about this boot I'm a little unsure about this this compressed cardboard counter I just haven't
experienced it I haven't I searched online for information on this type of counter and I couldn't
find anything so that may be the only thing that I'm a little concerned about yeah I guess I
guess that's like the only other thing I could say is like maybe having a leather midsole but
then you're starting to raise the price of the boot and even the Red Wings didn't have a leather
midsole so for this price point it's I'm pretty impressed with this boot so let me know what you
guys think what are your thoughts on this boot and prepare for the finale we've got those guests
coming in I'm really excited for the finale um anytime I do a finale I want to bring some guests
in because it it gets me excited and it's really fun working with other youtubers and I really like
breaking down these boots in a series type format so that we actually have things to compare them to
because we wouldn't know if this boot was any good unless we had other boots to compare it to in
similar price points so thanks for everything you guys do if you're not subscribed consider
doing it it helps a lot with the channel and I appreciate everything you guys do
see ya!
