# Doc Martens - same quality? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 27, 2007, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doc-martens-same-quality/413357 "2007-07-27T12:55:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2024, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doc-martens-same-quality/413357/21 "2024-04-28T23:14:08Z")
I just bought a pair of DMs in London and they are far more comfortable than the pair I bought 20 years ago that killed my feet. For that reason alone I’m happy with them. I got a pair with the padding around the rim, rather than the hard leather and they’re great. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doc-martens-same-quality/413357/22 "2024-04-29T10:10:51Z")
An expert speaks … [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/8fOgY9Yrudk/maxresdefault.jpg "Alexei Sayle - Dr. Marten's Boots (1982)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fOgY9Yrudk) ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doc-martens-same-quality/413357/23 "2024-04-29T11:33:53Z")
Because there’s a YouTube channel for everything. Rose Anvil is a channel that does boot teardowns. I’m not generally a watcher of this channel, but for some reason YouTube serves it up to me now and again. Here’s a search for their Doc Marten episodes. [https://www.youtube.com/results?search\_query=rose+anvil+doc+martens](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rose+anvil+doc+martens) ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doc-martens-same-quality/413357/24 "2024-04-29T16:01:12Z")
I can’t hear about Doc Martens without thinking of _The Brews_ by NOFX. No idea about the quality of the shoes. Oi Oi! ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doc-martens-same-quality/413357/25 "2024-04-29T16:09:37Z")
I bought (well, my mum did) some in 1996. 8 hole, steel toes. Wore them at school, a boarding school that did shoe inspections to make sure your shoes were polished, so they were properly taken care of. The left one cracked and made a hole next to my metatarsophalangeal joint (big toe / foot junction) and the right one shortly after. Just about a year after I got them. I was not impressed with the quality. I then got some Catterpillar boots, which were much better, when I wore those out years later I wore my granfather’s WWII British Army hobnail boots. Now THOSE had quality. A nail worked its way up into the left big toe area, and being young and somewhat punk, i just ignored it and eventually got an inverted callous on that toe. Could still dance and mosh and hike. Lost them in a house move, else I would still be wearing them, more than 24 years later. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doc-martens-same-quality/413357.md?page=1)