trip note about Limmer.

[derien]

eor has already written a synopsis of our camping trip.  I just wanted to add that while we were at the Limmer shop I got to see a real German military hobnailed boot.  Damn thing weighed about forty pounds.  My first thought: "So that's the sort of thing Granny Weatherwax is supposed to wear!" 

The Limmer shop is pretty cool.  Totally not about impressing people with the decor.  On the outside, stained curtains, broken windows.  Inside, rows and rows of shoes, second hand on consignment, and still costing $150 or so, the walls plastered with photos from people who love their boots, one sales guy and one guy working away making and fixing, and the rest is like any old barn or outbuilding in New England - creaking floor planks, a patch of red patterned linoleum that looks as though it dates from the 1920's or before, and dust.  Nobody wants to be a cobbler anymore, so they just can't keep up with orders.  They've got a five year waiting list if you want custom made boots, and you'll be paying $400.  We obviously did not get custom made boots, we got the type they have production made (to their specifications) in Germany.  They are still a very ouchy price.

The cobbler was a sweetheart.  He was more than happy to talk about the airport with me, and tell me how to strip the finish on my boots and redye them black to wear to work.  "I could do it for you, but I'd have to charge you thirty-five dollars, and it's really easy, you can do it yourself."  He even gave me little dobbers for the job. :)  (Of course at that price I'm going to DO the breakin period thing indoors and be damned sure I want to keep them before I dye them.)

I thought I could do a quick Google and find the shop's homepage, but I found this article first.  And there's lots more where that came from, but I can't find the website which actually belongs to them.  I know there is one, but I have to get ready for work, now.

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