 thought I'd bring you my first impressions of a new drop from Parkhurst brand. This is a revival of one of the original models the Allen boot in Hawine's Natural Dublin. Let's see what my first impressions are like. G'day, how you going? Welcome to Bootlossophy and I acknowledge the traditional custodians of widget country on the lands that I live and work. These are my first impressions of a Parkhurst brand model that I've been after for a very long time. I missed the original iteration of this in their 18 lasted model and I also missed it when they brought it out in a 602 last from the Batavia New York workshop. It's the Allen boot, the Parkhurst plain toe boot, service boot obviously. Six inch shaft from the height to the top of the heel. Simple no-toe cap vamp, a single piece backstay and two quarter pieces to go with that. The heel is stacked leather, simple block heel with a proprietary Parkhurst but day-night like studded sole. The rubber on the studded sole is a little softer than day-night and while still shock absorbent is probably a little bit grippier I think than day-night itself which is a very hard rubber compound. All darkened and teaked hardware with four or sorry five eyelets and three speed hooks at the top. A very very sort of simple plain service boot style that Parkhurst enthusiasts will know about. However this leather I've been waiting for for a long time is from Horween tannery in Chicago and it's their natural Dublin leather. Dublin is part of a family of leathers tanned by Horween. The Essex is the beginning of it which is a veg tanned base leather and then they put in some waxes and it becomes Dublin and then they polish it and put some more waxes and it becomes another leather which I can't remember the name of so it's a family of three leathers, veg tanned based with more and more oils and finishing. The Dublin uppers are quite a firm leather particularly as they are veg tanned and it's a little more than 2 millimeters thick, 2.2, 2.3 millimeters I think depending on where you measure. So it's really quite sturdy. The shaft is unlined as you can see but the vamp is lined with a soft sort of kid leather on the inside. Let me read the components to you from the website. So the construction is good you wilted with natural cork and a steel shank so a steel shank goes in between the heel and the ball of the foot down in there inserted into the cork layer so that gives you arch support for that little gap there and it gives you torsional control too across irregular terrain. The upper is full-grain natural Dublin leather from Horween. The lining is leather in the vamp or toe box and unlined in the quarters. The insole is veg tanned Ben's leather. The hardware fiber that's three speed hooks or brass the laces around waxed. The welt is a veg tanned leather and the midsole is a veg tanned leather. The sole and the heel are rubber studded and the heel stack is veg tanned Ben's leather that's excess leather cut from the insole so a little bit of saving and conservation in there. It is a split reverse welt which means that the stitching on the good you welt goes all the way around the boot and if you look at the sides just there you can see the flare up against the uppers and that's where the welt which if you look at it in cross section is split and then is peeled up halfway and then pushed against the side of the side of the boot and then stitched down along the welt. So good you wilting is where the uppers and the insole are attached to the inside of the welt and then the outside of the welt is sewn through the midsole and the outsole and you can see the stitching there and that way there are there are two stitches one on the inside of the boot and one on the outside of the boot so that creates water resistance and it also gives you the ability to re-sole because you can cut the stitches at the at the outsole peel off the outsole leave the welt leave the uppers untouched glue on a new outsole and re-stitch that external stitch. So in terms of size and fit this is Parkhurst's newer 602 last it is actually the 602M last so it's a little bit roomier at the ball of the foot and concurrently at the heel I don't mind that extra bit of room but it is definitely roomier if you're used to the old Parkhurst 602 last from the New York factory it's also a bit roomier in terms of height so that gives me and I like that a little bit more wiggle room in the toes and I really don't like my toes being squashed so the Parkhurst 602 last is reasonably anatomical but also roomy at the ball and rounded although kind of element shaped rounded the toes that gives you a little wiggle room I like that I'm an eight and a half us in d-width on the Brannock device that's my true size in Parkhurst I always take a size 8d because you half size down and this is really a perfect fit the US price is US $418 which is about average for Parkhurst boots because of the componentry I think and I think definitely worth it in terms of value the essay beg your pardon the Dublin leather is veg tan as I said and it will behave differently because depending on which part of the hide that you're cutting from and you can see from the Vap after a few days where there's a tiny little bit extra creasing in the right boot then in the left boot take a look at that see that bit of creasing and I think that bit of creasing might be a bit of loose grain I definitely have that with my Oak Street boot makers natural Dublin trench boots as well and it is a little bit more wavier look I don't mind that it's not structurally problematic it's not going to split and become two pieces of leather it's not going to flake off and if you like your patina I think that's quite attractive so I think what remains is let me put these on feet so you can see what they're like on feet and then we'll give you a little summary putting on boots with speed hooks is somewhat satisfying because of the act of hooking them up quickly at the top of the shaft area and they feel extremely comfortable now I've forgotten how many pairs of Parker's boots I have I think it's getting close to 11 or 12 and I have them in a variety of your 18 last year 602 last and their 602 M last in fact I think this might be my fourth boot in the 602 M from the Spanish factory so putting them on is a very familiar feeling they feel like other Parkhurst boots the Hawin Dublin leather has a fairly firm temper so when I'm flexing my feet I'm getting a bit of heel lift but I think that's because the leather itself is still fairly firm as is the Ben's leather midsole as that breaks in in like my other Parkhurst boots the heel slip almost disappears I'm also wearing dress socks with ease and they don't fill the boot out as much as it should if I'm wearing proper boot socks and the feel of the 602 M last in this leather is roomy there's no snugness other than the heel I'm feeling at the moment and the sort of mid area around here the toe box is roomy I like that I can kind of squiggle my toes which I like while the shaft is firmly laced up so I'm not slipping around very much it's reasonably flexible but as I said there is a bit of heel slip happening which I assume will go away which I believe will go away in terms of shock absorption there is good as any other Parkhurst model the studded sole that's proprietary to Parkhurst in in the Spanish factory I think is a slightly softer compound than regular day night and so feels like it's a little bit more shock absorbing and it is definitely grippier than then the hard rubber day night which I've slipped on on wet tiles in terms of comfort these are very comfortable the arch support is pretty darn good as our Parkhurst models perhaps I wouldn't mind a little bit more of a cut in here to give it a little bit more support but I can easily put in a an orthotic arch wedge to give me a little bit more support there I don't mind that so overall feel and comfort I think very good I would give this a good eight or nine out of ten right let's go on and summarize so there you are I hope you like my first impressions of the Parkhurst Allen boot in the natural Dublin leather which I've hankered after for quite a while and I'm I'm very glad to have got them very sturdy boot nice design very comfortable and I'm more than happy to put these on and under jeans or chinos or whatever which will work you know what to do if you like this video click on like and if you haven't subscribed click on subscribe and you can I think somewhere there's a little circle which you can click on screen to subscribe as well because if you subscribe you will be reminded by YouTube when I upload load more boot reviews so don't miss them until next time you guys take care of yourselves and I'll see you soon