I am not a vegetarian, though I fast from meat twice weekly and enjoy the cuisine.
I try to buy animal products with a modicum of decency to and care for the animal.
It cracks me up no end to read about english soap makers abandoning tallow under pressure. A domesticated sheep is perhaps the dumbest, most suicidal animal  I've worked with. As a breed, without a herder and dog they would succumb to extinction in a mere generation. Yet wool and tallow are marvelous products without harm to animal.
To many people are removed from the discomforture of self examination of lifestyle.
I like to follow any preconception to it's truth, however uncomfortable to me it proves.
There are damned to many 'good germans' content if the trains run on time.

Last edited by The_Shooman (2010-05-25 07:45:57)

Well said and informative.  I have read a number of your posts (here and elsewhere), though not the one above, and I think your view is that RMs ain't  what they used to be - at least as far as boot quality goes. 

I still like them - though.  I have a black pair about ten years old, which I wear to work with a suit.  Probably not really kosher to wear riding boots with a suit, but I like it because a) they're comfy b) they're good to wear if its raining and c) reminds me that even though I'm a city boy these days, I have country roots. They shine up nicely too.

Anyway thanks for that info.  I still find it kind of a pleasant surprise that a company like RMW still exists and does well.

In WW2 there was serious concern of japanese invasion of Australia. A little known mass evacuation of livestock saw one of the greatest  domestic migrations of millions of sheep,cattle and horses over two years by stockmen from the north to more southern ranges. An old Black and White movie was made showing some of the hardships encountered.
It's not so much people wearing these quality and traditional items  as the realisation they don't even comprehend how equally well made and honest their old wearers were, and are. Chicom knockoffs are perfect for knockoff men.
A bit of what Oz slang calls a walkabout in the real world would wear some of the costume aspect from these getups.

Last edited by ckav (2010-05-24 23:38:30)