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Emailed on: Tuesday June 2, 2009Quoddy Trail Moccasins
For a man to truly understand you, he must walk a mile in your moccasins, but how's he gonna get to know you if all you have are Dunks? Open up your heart, with Quoddy Trail Moccasins.
From a family of handsome moccasin-craftspeople in Downeast Maine, QTM completes every step of the creation process (cutting, stitching, sewing... skiving?) by hand to birth the signature one-piece vamp used by all their shoes, which wraps around the entire foot like a loving cocoon, sans the shirtless cheekiness of Steve Guttenberg. Ultra-comfy foot sheathings start with lowtops like the Dawson, a rugged soft-bottomed Chromepak leather model that comes in two sole styles (hefty double bottom or lightweight single bottom), and the dressier Canoe, featuring boat-shoe-ish nickel eyelets around the collar, a cushion-rubber boat sole, and "handsewn tips", reminding you of the pillow your Nana gave you that said "Don't Eat Yellow Snow". They've also got several styles of their top-of-the-line front-tie Grizzly, all of which have padded footbeds and thick, hand sewn leather outsoles, and come in premium-grade game hides like American Bison w/ Tobacco Gold Deerskin, North American Elk, and Vanilla Moosehide, which gets a sheepskin interior made from Curly Merino wool, because Menino wool proved unfit to stand up to intense friction, or the unions.
They've also got hi-top action like the six-eyelet Grizzly boot w/ deerskin lining, and the cinnamon Chromepak leather Ankle boot lined with "sumptuous sheepskin", from which said man will intimately learn of your delicate cankles.
There're probably three other styles you don't even know about! Get the visual at QuoddyTrail.com


