Welcome to the ninth edition of Denim + Boots Daily, the only men’s style newsletter that puts its pants on two legs at a time.

In Today's Issue

• A New Backpacking Boot from Danner, a Rare Chocolate Bison Drop, and the Selvedge Denim with a 100” Inseam

• This Boot Company Only Has 341 Instagram Followers. But Can They Make Good Boots?

• A Look Inside Momotaro Jeans

• Heritage Picks

• Video Drop

• Looks

• We Asked, You Told

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A New Backpacking Boot from Danner, a Rare Chocolate Bison Drop, and the Selvedge Denim with a 100” Inseam

There’s a lot to be excited about in this week’s boot drop roundup, including a “battlefield-to-boardroom-focused boot”, a half-assed April Fool’s Day joke, and the 8 foot long selvedge jeans crafted for “giants among us”.

Read it on BootSpy

^VETTED

This Boot Company Only Has 341 Instagram Followers. But Can They Make Good Boots?

Investing in a relatively new bootmaker can be a double-edged sword: you can be a trendsetter, or you can end up with junk. So are Hambleton Boots any good? We tested their Chelsea and their Cap Toe, and what we found surprised us.

Read it on BootSpy

^DISPATCH

A Look Inside Momotaro Jeans

Momotaro’s selvedge denim jeans sell for hundreds—and sometimes thousands of dollars. But what makes these pants from Okayama, Japan so special?

Redcast Heritage took a visit to their denim mill, and gives us a peek inside of the legendary factory.

Read it on Redcast Heritage

Heritage Picks

Video Drop

When YouTube was launched in 2005, there’s no way they could have anticipated content created for their platform would be this good.

Men’s fashion website Huckberry just dropped their 8th episode of Dirt, a better-than-most-network-TV-shows series that’s worth your time.

This time, they’re eating and surfing their way through Japan. Check it out.

Looks

We Asked, You Told

That’s a Wrap

A pair of good boots can save your life. I learned that this weekend while hiking through Western Colorado. It snowed about a foot of fresh powder the night before, and the trek to the cabin was a lot tougher than expected.

My legs were about to give out after five hours of trudging, but my feet kept pushing forward, mainly because they were warm and dry in my boots. If that wasn’t the case, it could have been a much more dangerous situation.

So I’ll leave you with this: drink more water, train harder than you think you need to, and invest in good boots. They’ll have your back when you need it most.