This is why you don't buy $75 'Red Wing'

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0:00 Intro
00:33 Boot Info
02:45 Leather Upper
04:06 Inside Lining
04:36 Insole
05:27 Midsole
05:38 Is It Goodyear Welted?
06:30 Outsole
07:32 Cut In Half
08:06 Reveal
08:37 The Internals
08:45 Would You buy The Fake Red Wings?
09:46 Fake Red Wing Construction
10:51 Outro

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[yellowjacket]

I cannot afford these as I only possess one dong.

[aprescoups]

Factory is taking notes to improve the boot

[koryleach]

This is one reason why I love living an hour and a half from Red Wing, MN. I can get a pair of RW boots from their outlet (in the basement of their museum) for about $125 and in MN there is no sales tax on shoes! Sure, there is going to be a slight cosmetic fault in the boot, but it doesn't effect the quality one iota for a work boot!

[michaeldenny]

I live in Chiangmai Thailand and I always see these boots advertised in supermarket floor sales. I wondered about the quality and what they really were inside. Thanks for your video.
I’ll stick with my sneakers

[barongerhardt]

It didn't look that bad for the price. They just need to stop committing fraud and market it under their own name.

[robertsandgren]

Great video and interesting analysis!

I suggest using a belt sander to study the wear resistance of outsole. A fixed force/weight pressing the heel against a belt sander should yield different weight reductions depending on sole material. :)

[Spheregrid]

It's been great watching this channel grow, and have the chance to own a pair of boots you've helped design! I'm glad you and your team/company are almost at 1M subs. you've earned it!!

[notme]

I was about to write that it is too bad they aren’t just selling this under their own name as a decent super budget boot…and then I saw you pull it apart.

[BL-yjwp]

If they used some actual glue and didn‘t put the fake logos on there these wouldn‘t be too bad.

[jesseshort]

I'd love to see more Georgia boot reviews, namely the logger boots. Maybe a logger boot matchup of Carolina, Georgia, those types of brands. Like $150 - $250 price range, not the P.N.W. brands.

[TheNewBorkTimes]

Great vid Weston! As someone who has been known to purchase “pre-loved” heritage footwear, I should probably be a little more vigilant… because damn, those Rod Wangs could have fooled me.

[garattyfisher]

Great video, I'd love to see more like this.

[kachmi]

Fake products are a global scourge. For a large number of people, the status of being noticed sporting branded products is more important than that product's authenticity. Almost nobody gets faked by a fake if they have ever handled or worn authentic top tier products. In the end, a fake can only be as good as the time and materials put into it, and in most cases, fakes, even those crafted with studious attention to detail, are materially inferior and less labor intensive than what you actually end up paying for them.

[trevor-tgsf]

Can you do a comparison between men’s and women’s heritage boots? So many reviews focus on men’s boots, and it is easy to assume the same model in women’s is built the same. But it would be nice to see if they really are.

[jetfowl]

1, 850, 000 dongs

"THAT'S A LOTTA DONGS!"

[danmarcell]

I'm a US Citizen and and I'm going to support my own the best I can and would rather keep my money here than send it overseas and never see it again..
I care about my family friends and neighbors keeping a roof over their heads

[JonReynoldsESQ]

I would like to see more of this. This is great...and your energy towards the topic comes through.

[AlexR]

I always liked Red Wings, they were the only boots I ever bought that I could buy a brand new pair. Go to work and work a 12 hour shift and they were comfortable all day. No break in time.

[Menuki]

The Vietnamese fabrication industry is well above many other countries. Eberlestock and Mystery Ranch have their stuff assembled there.

They typically do good stitching, materials not withstanding

[XXXX-ycwv]

I used to live in Vietnam and for things like this there were two variants of any product intended for foreign markets on the local black market:

1: things stolen straight out of a foreign owned company's factory. Lots of companies manufacture in Vietnam. These things were the real deal.

2: things made in the factory with during a night shift when the factory isn't making product for the foreign company. These use the foreign company's designs, but are made with less and/or cheaper materials. Usual way to spot these is single stitching where it should be double, feel of material, lack of lining, etc.

Looks like these are the latter.