
Deep Dive – The Boot Episode with Jeremy Smith
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The History of World War II Boots
In the 1800s, you just had one boot and maybe three sizes and didn't even have a side. The masses would just be like straight, no shape, like no side. And they wouldn't even be really be sized to be kind of like a small medium large if anything. This whole concept of having like standardized sizes and stuff is relatively modern. So that's what you said there about fitting the most number of people. Yeah. When you look at a World War II boot and you're talking about the modified last. Yes. That's a very comfortable last because it's very similar to the last at the military. They can be as supportive as you want. You know,
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