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From Wikipedia: Caulk boots or cork boots (pronounced "cork" and usually called "corks") are leather nail-soled boots[1] worn by lumberjacks in the timber-producing regions of the Pacific Northwest and Canada.[2] They are worn for traction in the woods and especially in timber rafting, and were part of a lumberman's basic equipment along with axe and crosscut saw. Loggers and others who work in the woods still wear corks today.
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excerpt from a book, "Dictionary of America." Worth taking a look at on the subject of caulk or cork boots popular in the 1950s and earlier.
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For what it's worth, it was noted that Willie D. Blair wore a size 7 1/2.
I'm betting these Amourcorks are men's boots, not women's. However if it was a woman wearing a men's size 7 1/2 boot she would wear a size 8 1/2- 9 in women's shoes. I know because I used to have to buy men's boots when I went deer hunting, and a 7 1/2 is the size I'd buy. It was not until the mid to late 1990s that boots were made expressly for outdoors women. And another thing, it was hard to find men's boots in a 7 1/2. The last pair of hunting boots I bought were men's as well because when wearing heavy wool socks you need plenty of room in the toebox, and the dingalings who've designed women's hunting boots have cut down on the space in the toebox. They're for women, ya know, so no matter where we are, we are interested in fashionable feet. Idiots. If I'm out hunting, I want warm feet period.
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http://tinyurl.com/pj9obv
excerpt from a book, "Dictionary of America." Worth taking a look at on the subject of caulk or cork boots popular in the 1950s and earlier.
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For what it's worth, it was noted that Willie D. Blair wore a size 7 1/2.
I'm betting these Amourcorks are men's boots, not women's. However if it was a woman wearing a men's size 7 1/2 boot she would wear a size 8 1/2- 9 in women's shoes. I know because I used to have to buy men's boots when I went deer hunting, and a 7 1/2 is the size I'd buy. It was not until the mid to late 1990s that boots were made expressly for outdoors women. And another thing, it was hard to find men's boots in a 7 1/2. The last pair of hunting boots I bought were men's as well because when wearing heavy wool socks you need plenty of room in the toebox, and the dingalings who've designed women's hunting boots have cut down on the space in the toebox. They're for women, ya know, so no matter where we are, we are interested in fashionable feet. Idiots. If I'm out hunting, I want warm feet period.
