Ask Alex: What's the point in leather soles? - The Cheaney Journal
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Let’s take a deep dive into one of the great debates currently raging (actually, more ‘quietly simmering’) in the footwear market: are rubber soles better than leather? Let me begin by saying that if there was one sole unit that did everything, and contained every property that you could ever want, there would be no
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