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Waterproof barefoot shoes and/or boots that have no taper amd no arch in the sole like THIS please? (lemmy.world)
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Im just looking for barefoot shoes and/or boots that have soles that look like EXACTLY this and are waterproof and BIFL. My feet dont taper and look big and flat EXACTLY like this sole (I dont know if I have a disorder or if my feet are just naturally supposed to be like this🤷🏿‍♂️)

These boots in the picture are from the company manitobah and most reviews conclude that the boots are not as waterproof as theyre advertised to be.

The sneakers Im using right now for winter and the rest of the year I bought frkm a company called last resort AB cause that particular model of sneakers they sold had surprisingly wide soles. However these sneakers I bougjt from them are very low quality cause the soles of the last resort AB sneakers broke open after only 3 months of using them . I get my socks super wet when I go for walks in the winter and in the rain obviously. Annd the last resort sneakers are not waterproof at all in the top of the sneaker.

Or should I just get it custom made?

Also I live in toronto so any recommendations have to be able to be shipped here or to a nearby city.

Also I dont mind having to wax the entirety of the boot to keep them waterproof

No budget limit. Bonus poonts if the sneakers/boots are BIFL

Thanks.

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[–] 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

No shoes are BIFL unless you are 80 already. Best you can do is have a company that replaces the sole and use easily replaceable and sourcable insoles. It is the most high traffic area on your body.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 22 hours ago (2 children)

    Thanks for the suggestion but I find it odd that footwear could ever be non-BIFL.

    The thing is a person will be stepping hundreds maybe even thousands of kilometres cumatively almost everyday in this footwear through mud, snow, rain, gravel, small sharp grains of sand , orwhatever elements the footwear encountersr… Why would such a thing ever NOT be BIFL? Its nonsensical to me.

    Or is planned obsolescence of footwear a good thing to most people?

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  • [–] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 child)

    I don't think it is that deep.

    You foot constantly wears out if you to barefoot. It regenerates its own skin and heals. Dead materials don't do that. In order to survive thousands of kilometers if 60-100kg of weight (x2-4 of force) you would essentially need a material harder than whatever it is exposed to.

    Way before planned obsolescence was even a concept, cobblers were an extremely common profession, specifically because there is no material that can simultaneously be soft enough to dampen force going into the foot while being hard enough to not be worn out scraping against rock, dirt, and sand.

    Absolutely 100% the average shoe now lasts significantly less long than 100 years ago, but even then, people would definitely go through a dozen pairs of boots and shoes in their adult lives. Back then, they would just get the sole replaced.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 15 hours ago

    To me BIFL is not really buy one then never replace it for 100 years , its more buy something then 30 years later you would finally have to replace it because a part of it has rusted away or has worn away from friction or from the elements, or something like this. . (This is my personal definition for BIFL when it comes to EVERYTHING that is certifiably BIFL. Something lasting 30 years or more had might as well be called BIFL cause thats crazy durability , right?) I feel it should work similarly for all footwear. I am guessing in the past as long as the cobbler that made a person's footwear wasnt a scammer like ea-nasr then their footwear would also last around a dozen or two dozen years before any type of hole appear im the footwear, maybe longer . I feel that footwear should have similar durability today

    All the shoes Ive bought my whole life only lasted a few months to just over a year before the soles made a hole in them except for my pajar boots . (Only problem with pajar boots is that they arent made for a wide footed person like I)

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