Think these were a British Boot Company produced pair. They have the old Solovair high shine leather and the traditional gold lettering. The build quality is pretty great as well. Did a few layers of brown wax on the cherry red and then finished with neutral mirror gloss. Cheers.

I want to get these boots. But since the zipper is such a conspicuous feature, I am curious how these boots look on an actual human.

I feel like that shouldn’t be too much to ask. For example, for the 11 inch “Englander” steel toe boot ( https://us.nps-solovair.com/collections/solovair-steel-toe-collection/products/sc11-1980-bk-g ), which I was also considering getting, there are pictures on the website of an actual human wearing the boot. However after seeing the pictures, I realized 11 inches is a little too tall for me.

The 11 inch boots look amazing. But once I saw them being modeled, I immediately knew that I’d prefer the 8 inch boots for my style. I I have spent the past hour scouring the Internet looking for any picture or video of a human wearing the 8 inch zip derby boots.

This company couldn’t take 5 seconds to just snap a few pictures of someone wearing these boots? After all these years? Nobody has reviewed them on YouTube, or Instagram, or TikTok. There are no images of any person anywhere wearing the 8 inch zip derby boots. Wth???

Have had these since late December and after having on and off problems with them since then there's a big split already 🫠 Needless to say I'm done with Solovair boots. Quality control is in the bin it seems.

Just completed my first "cleaning" of my boots. Just a dry towel to get the dust and dirt off, then a damp towel for the rest. Noticed that the toe on one of my boots has some minor scuffing and there are a few scratches around the heels on both.

There's also a manufacturing ghost on the right boot near the toe, but it's not affecting anything. My question is how to deal with the minor scuffs and scratches?

I broke these in over about a week wearing them tied for progressively longer periods until they didn't feel uncomfortable. Now I have them as sort of slip on, but can be tied proper if needed. 4 months in, still love these and they're my daily wear.

With Grommets!
Tight laces will no longer detach or warp the eyelets!

Some of those may be tamped down almost super-slightly too much by maybe a quarter millimeter; but its so minor that it doesn't feel like it will cause a major problem whatsoever.

The hope is now, that the tight upper lacing and proper ankle support will be the savior in the case of the zipper being potentially negatively affected. Crossing my fingers!

The result...?

CLEAN

Just got these panels to close and started building layers. They will darken as I add brown and black in there. I like them tho. 😎

I'm buying these pair of used solovair gripfast, and the seller says these are a size 9 US men, the following is the photo of the boots and I want to know if its true what the seller is saying or are they trying to scam me? Various sources online are telling me they are or aren't size 9 so I thought going here and asking for help would be helpful

I got a pair of Hi-Shine dealer boots from a friend with this torn stitching on the back heel and was wondering if anyone has any knowledge of whether or not this will be an easy fix or cause major issues?

Both left and right boots look like this. I used dubbin once a small amount only.

I have been waiting for email notification (and check regularly) for a boot to be restocked in my size. This boot is in the "Gripfast Originals Collection" ... it's been at least two months since I signed up for email notification for restock, and again, I check manually every two weeks or so. No dice.

The boot.

After reading other posts here about 1-2 week average restocks, I worry it's been discontinued and I just missed my shot at owning a pair.

Or is this lengthy period of being out of stock more common than those past posts have led me to believe?

I appreciate anyone's input. Cheers!