{"id":3006,"date":"2008-08-27T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T15:06:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-01-10T19:42:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T02:42:26","slug":"russell-moccasi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/russell-moccasi\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Moccasin Footwear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Russell is a hundred-some-odd-year-old shoemaker I&#8217;ve been ordering from for the past 15 years. In addition to the quality of the workmanship and materials, you get the simple, timeless pleasure of a hand-crafted, made-to-order shoe\/boot. Options include any number of various soles, hides (including supplying your own!), styles, insulation, toe cap, steel shank, and other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.russellmoccasin.com\/custom_options.html\">custom options<\/a>. For me, the Vibram sole was perfect. But others might be after oil resistance, traction, silence, longer life, etc. For instance, I&#8217;m not a hunter, but for those that are, Russell also has snakeproof boots and options for preventing thorns\/cactus. That ability to customize your sole\/leather\/style per application is great.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a downloadable instruction form for sending in your measurements, which they keep on record for a decade. I am very flat-footed and they were able to accommodate the necessary additional space for orthotics. Not that unusual, but I recommended Russell to a friend with extraordinarily narrow feet (especially for how long they are). They were able to create his size no problem; and he&#8217;s since ordered a half dozen different pairs over the years. One other thing I&#8217;d add is they do repair work as well, so you won&#8217;t need to toss them as they get really old &#8212; and you get the added bonus of having someone who knows the shoe doing the work. I have both the Cavalier boot and the Buckle Chukka. They&#8217;re not cheap, but the Cavalier boots I mainly wear now I&#8217;ve had for at least 10 years, and the pair has only gotten better with age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hand-made, custom-fit shoes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[42],"tags":[979],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8610,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions\/8610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}