Blast from past:

https://batakenya.com/brands/10

The most expensive at Ksh 2799/- comes out to about $28. We wore the
cheapos with low-grade crepe rubber soles, which usually wore a hole
through at front sole or front upper within 3 months.

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 9:28 PM Patrick Moore <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you all again. I will read Jack Loudon's linked overview site before
> I choose, but even with all the criticisms, Redwing still gets much praise;
> will take a look at the Chukkas particularly, since these look like the
> sort of shoe that the cheap Bata "Safari Boots" we grew up wearing in Kenya
> ought to have been; I certainly put miles of walking and cycling in wearing
> those, and of course your big game guides always work them. And they'd go
> with the canvas bush hat with venting screens that we boys also wore, one
> of which I mean to buy to replace my aging straw cowboy hat. (We -- teenage
> boy peer group -- used to pull out the vent screens to use at the bottom of
> the bowls of pot pipes we home-made from the local bamboo; the screens kept
> the seeds and other debris from falling down and plugging the stem.)
>


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