Harness boots sales are hard to come by but you do have options.
Finding harness boots sales are nearly impossible. And if you
do find some, they are probably on sale because the boots are
bad looking or discontinued. Often the reason they are on sale
in the first place is because they’re ugly and no one is
buying them.
What I suggest you do is look for the harness boots you like
and then find a website that has free shipping. Also, if you can
hold out, buy the boots when most people aren’t buying boots.
By buying them in the off-season you have more of a chance of
getting a deal on them. Online boot stores will want to move inventory
to make room for new models. If you are lucky you can find a boot
you like at a discounted price and then with free shipping, you’ll
end up with a pretty good deal.
Another thing you might try is switching your search to a motorcycle
engineer boot style instead of the harness. I’ve seen more
engineer buckle boots on sale or discounted than the belted harness
boots. Recently I saw a really nice $220 Chippewa engineer boot
discounted to $150. Add free shipping to that and that’s
a great deal.
Some boot models look like a cross between an engineer and harness
boot. So if you are dead set on the harness look, you might check
those out for they get discounted too. The Harley Davidson 11”
Flash harness boot has an uncharacteristically thick rubber outsole
and a rounded toe instead of the squared off flat toe. It would
be a good one to check out. As of this writing they were discounted
from $126 to $109 for the steel toe model. Not a huge savings
but with free shipping it’s still a decent deal.
Your best bets on boot brands that would have harness boot sales
would be Frye, Double H, Durango and Dingo. The Dingo harness
boots tend to look more like western boots. They are more fashion
looking and that look will work for women. HD hardly ever goes
on sale and when they do it’s because someone ordered too
many and they are overstocked. Or the model is just down right
ugly. Harley boots offer the most unusual styles for men and especially
women. Most of their styles look as if the designers designed
a bunch of weird stuff and threw it up on the wall to see what
sticks. Most of it looks like it fell off the wall but they offered
it to the public anyway. They are long on trend and flash but
short on function in my opinion. I prefer the Chippewa or Double
H harness boots for their simple and clean lines.
Two very good online boot merchants who sell harness boots and
who often have sales on them are Shoebuy.com and Bootbay.com.
Shoebuy carries Dingo, Harley Davidson and Double-H boots. Bootbay
has Harley Davidson, Double-H, Chippewa, Red Wing, Durango and
Dingo. Both offer free shipping and offer many engineer style
boots as well if you think you might want a rounded toe instead
of the squared-off toe. I think Bootbay may have cheaper prices
overall by a few dollars.
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