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The grizzly boot is nothing if not a serious man’s boot. The artisans at Quoddy realised that, since they are hand making beautiful shoes for loafing about in, why not hand make beautiful boots for doing more serious men’s business in? Needless to say, they achieved their goal. Made from thick Horween calf leather and laboriously hand stitched, the grizzly boot is built to withstand everything you can throw at it; whether you’re felling a tree, hiking a trail or sipping a latte, you’ll be doing it in rugged and impressive style. It isn’t often that we can say that a maker is indisputably ‘the best’ at doing what they do, but when it comes to making boat shoes, nobody does it better than Quoddy. Taking their name from the Native American ‘Passamaquoddy’ tribe, who originally inhabited the area around Maine, Quoddy make every single pair of their shoes in a single workshop. Almost every step in the shoemaking process is entirely hand-done, with every pair designed to be continually repairable over the course of a lifetime. Using only the finest Horween leathers, every pair of Quoddy shoes is a marvel of traditional American craftsmanship.