All Iron Boots are fully handmade by our bootmaker Kai and 5 teammates together in a small studio at Guangzhou. They are built in handwelt or hand stitchdown, with channelled insole construction, which are stronger and last longer than normal Goodyear welted shoes/boots made by machines. Each pair is 100% hand welted, hand last, hand bottomed, and also hand-sewn outsole stitch.

About Østmo Boots

Østmo Boots came to be in 2015, when 1986–born Norwegian Lars Jensen woke up one day with a wish to brush the dust off of Norwegian and Scandinavian footwear heritage. Although Lars himself is completely self-taught, the Østmo name is carried over from his paternal great-grandfather, Karl Johan Østmo, which was the shoemaker and cobbler in Lars’ home village Åsa in Ringerike, Norway during the early-to-mid 1900s. In fact, it was due to the discovery of Karl Johan’s old tools, lasts and half-finished projects while digging through a shed that Lars decided to try his own hand at the bootmaking craft.

Through Østmo, Lars has revived several boot, shoe designs that were last seen in production during the 1960s, with unique twists that pair well with contemporary aesthetics. Most notable is the Type I pattern, with its unique feature colloquially known as the “ankle swoopty”, which stands out among the crowd of other derby boot patterns.

About Østmo X Iron Boots

The Iron Boots X Østmo collaboration comes as a result of Lars’ wish to make his creations more widely available than what a single craftsperson can provide, while adhering to an unyielding level of material quality, craftsmanship and attention to detail.

What's Inside?

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Stitchdown Construction

Handwelt Construction - Welt Fudging

Handwelt Construction - Plain Welt

Hand dyed and patinated Horween Pioneer Hatchgrain, a.k.a Horween’s interpretation of the infamous Russian reindeer leather that was recovered only a few years ago, after spending its life on the seafloor in a sunken ship since 1786. Our master bootmaker Kai has been fortunate enough to handle the original recovered leather up close, and so we decided to treat our Horween hides a little differently for a better approximation to the original leather.

This process starts with stripping off the top dye of the leather, before dying it again by hand. It is then polished with a darker wax finish, which sinks into the crevices of the hatchgrain pattern. The result is a deep, lustrous finish with a distinct antique look.

Only Ready To Wear (RTW) items can be returned and refunded. We have a 14-day return policy, which means you have 14 days after receiving your item to request a return. To be eligible for a return, your item must be in the same condition that you received it, unworn or unused, with tags, and in its original packaging. 

To start a return, you can contact us at info@iron-boots.com. If your return is accepted, you will need to send the original package back, and you are responsible for the shipping. Items sent back to us without first requesting a return will not be accepted.

We will notify you once we’ve received and inspected your return, and let you know if the refund was approved or not. You can get a full refund as store credit, or cash with a 5% fee for any return / refund, because Paypal / Stripe / Shopify won't return those fees to us. If you want to refund to your original payment method, it may take 10-15 business days. Please remember it can take some time for your bank or credit card company to process and post the refund too.

Exchanges
The fastest way to ensure you get what you want is to return the item you have as store credit, and once the return is accepted, make a separate purchase for the new item.

You can always contact us for any return question at info@iron-boots.com.