Shoes need to be used, or the rubber and/or glue holding the sole on will deteriorate.

zdragnar 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There's gotta be more to it than that. I've got a pair of dress shoes I wear maybe thee times a year at most, and I've had them for somewhere between ten and fifteen years, perhaps longer.

The soles (rubber because winter) are in perfect condition, and the leather isn't too bad either, though I've not really conditioned it enough and it's starting to show.

	▲	pixl97 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Environmental factors can be very picky on what gets attacked and what doesn't. In one of the oddest losses of a pair of shoes, I had fire ants break into my closet and eat the foam rubber out of one pair of extra lite running shoes. Turned the damned things to swiss cheese. Nothing else was messed with. They didn't want leather or rubber, just whatever those shoes were made of.
	▲	gleenn 15 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Both can be true. I have specifically heard that shoe glue needs to be repeatedly compressed to be maintained or it will disintegrate. Anecdotally as well, I had a pair of quality, lightly used, but old, hiking boots that had the sole completely separate after a day of heavy use. The runber sole completely detached from the leather shell inner shoe. The crazy thing was that BOTH boots failed within 20 minutes of each other.

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lostlogin 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And because they are military grade they need to be used for some military stuff.