I still remember the day I got my first pair of Doc Martens – I was a ten year-old preppy kid who felt it was time to rock some #1460 8-hole boots. I would leave the #1461 3-hole shoes for the rest of the preppies who wanted an edge but not me.
Grunge hadn’t yet officially hit, and I never went fully grunge, but I had to have those boots. I wore them daily. I even managed to get my friends to jump on the Doc’s bandwagon. Eventually, even my mother had to get a pair. Since then Dr Marten has been a constant in my life and a staple in my shoe wardrobe (even after my fair-weather friends had traded them in for the latest trend) . You can’t go wrong with the black 8-hole boots; I pull them out all the time. And now that the 90s are back, you should too.
But I am tempted to diversify…