Is a good treatment of pecards good enough for wearing my Aldens in the snow?
I have never used leather in the winter. Please enlighten me.
Last night it was warm and we had a thunderstorm. I woke up this morning to my kids telling me Santa was coming. I got out of bed to see everything covered in snow! The first thing I thought of was my boots
Be mindful of the wooden heels, though. We've experienced different results with some of the stacked wood, and have actually had small 'chunk's come out when the heel becomes water soaked. I have, and I believe Cab has, but others have not, so keep an eye on them after a day of trudging through the white stuff. They can be quickly and easly repaired and sealed by a competent shoe repairman if they do. Regards. Michaelson
The Alden shop offered the addition of traction treads to be placed on the soles before delivery, so they are available. I've never had them myself (and sometimes wished I had! ) Regards. Michaelson
In the south, snow is a once a year in January thing, luckly I spend a week at a ski resort in WV so it's cool.
Is it possible to have a new sole with traction put on Aldens? And has anyone ever done it?
Consider yourself LUCKY!
It's nice for a while but after about the 3rd month of it, I hate it. We get snow from now until April. It is sometimes on and off and there are warm spells in there, but January, February, March are knee deep and freezing. This is the first day and I am already dreading what is to come.
It's nice for Christmas though
Sometimes you get a year when the snow melts over Christmas and it's green for Christmas.
Oh well, it's all part of this wonderful province. I just moved to a small country sub-division. I can't wait to see what happens to the roads out here
Just an excuse to buy a Hummer
Aldens are not really the choice of shoe for me in cold weather. Way too slippery on the ice and snow and the thin leather does not keep your feet warm at all. THis is one of the few occasions I have to draw the line on wearing Indy gear. Everybody else may think that they are great in the snow, but they are a dress shoe. You can treat them, but they still get wet and did I mention they do not keep your feet warm? But to answer your original question, Pecard's treat the leather fine. I assume you will not be standing in waist-deep snow building a snowman. Wear them a few times and you will see what I mean
I also think that the amount of salt they dump on the roads here will ruin them. For a light dusting of snow I may wear them. But once the snow is deep and the salt trucks are out, I will put them away along with my westeds.
Last night the temperature dropped pretty fast and the wet ground was frozen under the snow. Tread would have been nice
Also, I don't think they will be any warmer than sandals in -40 weather.
Indiana Janice wrote:
Also, I don't think they will be any warmer than sandals in -40 weather.
Janice
The photo posted above is when I was on vacation in Wisconsin.
If I had to endure a whole winter, I would switch to a heavier boot with a similar look. That is the only thing I would change. The whole rest of the gear, jacket, hat, pants, etc, AND if you add the Mystery of the Blues items like scarf and cardigan, you should be nice and toasty. I was.
I think I had this discussion with Fisk last year. It is far too cold for a wested when the temperature drops here. I had one wested made two sizes bigger and 4" longer to put bulky sweaters under it. It is fine for a while, but once the windchill warning are out, and you have 5 minutes until fronstbite on unexposed skin, I have to switch.
Gater, Farn or other Canadians in this area can back me up here
If you get temperatures and windchill like we do, and say you wear your gear all the time in February, you are either going to the car, crazy, full of it, or you are not human
Feel free to bombard me "you're a wimp" comments. I freeze for NO ONE
actually Janice, I admit that for the past two years, I spent A LOT of time in my Wested, dispite the snow and cold. The past two days, we have had winds over 120KpH, and it's been CRAZY!! No fedora for me today!
I certanly can attenst to the impracticalities of Aldens or the likes in the Province of Ontario, though. My JCrew's will be waiting in the closet for me to come looking for them in about 6 months !
Til then, I'll stick with the Kodiaks and other more reasonable frost-bite avoiding footwear.
Here in Ottawa, we usually get snow from mid to end of Oct. and it's here til mid to end of April to early May.
So we get a summer over +35 (humidex into the mid 40's) and a winter to -35 (windchill mid - 40's)
Ahhh Canada...
We ALL have frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell about it.
The Canadian Civil War was a bar fight that lasted a little over an hour
We knew plaid was cool far before Seattle caught on
Pizza gets to your house faster than an ambulance
We leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage
We have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering
There are handicap parking places in front of a skating rink
Gator: You forgot the missing part of any Indy Canuck. The Big -100C rated Sorels. We may need them for our next get together in February. I'm coming down again on Feb.22 and will be in Toronto area until at least the 26th.
If Indy 4 ends up in the 50's, he'll probably be dealing with the Russians. Indy Sorel's may not be too far fetched then eh?
) Regards. Michaelson
