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- Released
- 2024
- Colourway
- Black
1460 Protect Leather Lace Up Boot Black
1460 Protect Leather Lace Up Boot Black
- Upper
- Leather
- Released
- 2024
- Colourway
- Black
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Released on 25 September 2024 and part of the 1460 line. This release has a leather upper in Black/Black/White. The 1460 is named after a date: it was introduced on 1 April 1960, and the model number preserves that day. It became the foundational Dr. Martens boot, the design from which the brand's catalogue radiates, and together with the 1461 shoe, whose number marks 1961, it has long stood among the company's best-selling designs. The Smooth designation marks the classic smooth leather execution of the boot. Many variations of the 1460 have been produced over the decades since that 1960 introduction, but the smooth leather original remains the reference point, the version the others are measured against.
The 1460 is bought as an everyday boot expected to outlast trends: paired with denim, dresses and workwear alike, and expected to improve as the leather breaks in. Plan around the breaking-in period rather than resent it. In India, the boot suits the cooler months, the hills and travel more than peak summer, and smooth leather rewards basic cleaning and conditioning in humid climates. Check the appended details for the exact leather and sole of the pair in view, and on pre-owned pairs inspect sole wear and stitching first.
Few boots carry more subcultural mileage. The 1460's popularity surged in the 1990s as grunge fashion rose, folding a decades-old design into a new generation's uniform, and the model's endurance shows in the numbers: over one hundred million pairs of Dr. Martens have been produced across the brand's history, with company capacity at one point reaching up to ten million pairs a year, and the 1460 and 1461 have remained its best sellers. The boot became shorthand for a certain stance, worn to signal as much as to protect.
This release wears a Black/Black/White execution with a leather build. It reached the market in 2024. The 1460 Smooth is a leather boot built on the pattern set in 1960, executed in the brand's smooth leather finish, the surface most associated with the model. As a model-level note this cannot speak to individual colourways, but the constants are the boot silhouette itself and a construction that has supported decades of hard wear across subcultures and workwear alike. Leather specification, eyelet detail and sole finish for the exact pair sit in the appended per-colourway paragraph, and new pairs typically ask for a breaking-in period before the leather settles.
- Upper
- Leather
- Released
- 2024
- Colourway
- Black
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