To be clear, a true leather midsole is superior in every way to leatherboard other than cost. To give him credit, unlike others who refer to this as paper, Weston does describe it as what it is. The LeatherboardĪt this chapter of the review, Rose Anvil points out that the midsole (and later the heel cap and heel lifts) is made of what is known as leatherboard. If you want something that does, the world is your oyster: Chromexcel? Arabica Lux? Suede? Shell? All of these are available on the Indy if you want a more worn-in look. Rose Anvil chose the one specifically designed to not develop a patina. A hand-made shoe from a Saville Row-based maker will do the same.Īll that aside, the Alden Indy comes in a variety of leather options. Nothing about what Rose Anvil did was staged, but that’s true of any form of smooth leather. To be fair, if you take a knife to it and cut through, you’ll see natural leather tones. It offers something between the formality of a proper dress shoe and a beat-up pair of work boots. That heavy pigmentation means that, even years down the line, the Indy can look presentable and take a shine. However, if you’re grabbing drinks with a potential client to try and sell them on a large deal, that isn’t a great look.
They are a visual dream for kicking around a campsite with your friends. To put it another way, we’re all familiar with Andrew Chen’s famous Vibergs. The problem is that, for a lot of people, having a heavy patina on boots is exactly what they are trying to avoid. More specifically, he notes that the leather won’t develop “highlights, contrast, and depth of color.” Weston says this as if nobody would possibly disagree that is the goal of any boot. In this section of the review, Weston’s big gripe is that the leather has a heavy pigment coat. Rose Anvil’s Concern with the Alden Indy The Leather However, before we get into what the Alden Indys do better, let’s touch on some points of the Rose Anvil Review. It also means that the corners which are cut – and unless your boot is more than $2,000 you ARE cutting corners somewhere – are going to be different in order to meet the wants of your consumer. What is important for a boot in this category is entirely different than a boot in the “workboot” range. In other words, it’s better to think of an Indy as a dress shoe with a bit of leather at the top so it works in a more casual space. No, their attention is making sure they compare favorably with boots like the Allen Edmonds Higgins Mill, the Carmina Soller, or the Crockett and Jones Galway.
This means that Alden doesn’t want to compete with the likes of White’s, Nicks, JK Boots, or Wesco. It’s far more at home on the 13 th floor of an office building than on a trail. The Indy is a boot for business professionals to wear on casual Friday, or on the weekends. In other words, saying that the Alden Indy is a less robust built boot than White’s or Nicks is pointless at best, and may ultimately harm a consumer looking for a boot that fits their lifestyle.ĭespite its origins as a workman’s boot, Alden has not marketed or built the Indy for people doing hard labor for a long, long time. What makes a boot good at one, makes it almost inherently worse at another. However, it’s extremely unlikely that they can do both. Perhaps more important for this piece though, they can be made to fight fires and fell trees, and they can be made to impress friends and clients in a business-like/urban environment. They can help us run faster, they can protect us from dropped steel, and they can even make a short guy taller. For what is a fairly basic concept – keeping your feet dry – shoes have evolved into solving a variety of issues. Watching this review of the Alden Indy, I couldn’t help but feeling that Rose Anvil was measuring how deep the Alden Indy Screwdriver could send a nail. Rather, it says you don’t understand how the tool is designed to work. While there are countless variants, they all boil down to the same thing: evaluating a screwdriver based on how well it hammers in a nail doesn’t mean the screwdriver is bad at its job. The hammer and screwdriver analogy is one that is quite famous.
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