{"id":635583,"date":"2026-08-13T19:55:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T19:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/635583\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T19:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T19:55:23","slug":"two-australian-shoe-titans-are-battling-for-chelsea-boot-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/635583\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Australian Shoe Titans Are Battling for Chelsea Boot Supremacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a common refrain among a certain subset of menswear enthusiasts, which goes something like, \u201cR.M. Williams is Blundstone\u2019s more sophisticated brother.\u201d And while the merits of that rubric are somewhat abstract and subjective, the venerable R.M. Williams Chelsea Boot<\/a> held an undeniable edge when it came to polish. Emphasis, on \u201cheld,\u201d because the wizards of utilitarian footwear<\/a> over at Blundstone just dropped a refined hammer on that long-time rivalry, in the form of the beautifully-built, utterly decked-out Heritage Boot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Blundstone<\/p>\n

Heritage #156 Boot<\/p>\n

Blundstone<\/p>\n

Heritage #157 Boot<\/p>\n

Clocking in at $395, the Heritage boots are significantly more expensive than the well-known Classics line, but not without cause. It starts with a premium leather upper, less rugged than what you\u2019d find in the rest of the brand’s hardy catalog. They also happen to be handmade, using 72 processes and 34 different pairs of hands, which is as impressive as it sounds. And then finally, the rubber-wrapped leather outsoles are affixed with a Goodyear welt, which means you can resole \u2018em indefinitely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a common refrain among a certain subset of menswear enthusiasts, which goes something like, \u201cR.M. Williams is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[74],"tags":[72451,18,19,17,82],"class_list":["post-635583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-boots","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117089961897056378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}