Vegan Boots

January 29, 2004 Off By leigh

Being vegan, when I finally retired a pair of 8 year old Doc Martens, I was on the lookout for an alternative to leather. Materials science has progressed to the point that we no longer need to use animals for our clothing needs. Neither do we need petrochemicals for plastics; Henry Ford built a plastic car in the 1930s from Hemp, Flax and other cellulose biomass crops. It’s all just a question of our will to question our habits.


Being vegan, when I finally retired a pair of 8 year old Doc Martens, I was on the lookout for an alternative to leather. Materials science has progressed to the point that we no longer need to use animals for our clothing needs. Neither do we need petrochemicals for plastics; Henry Ford built a plastic car in the 1930s from Hemp, Flax and other cellulose biomass crops. It’s all just a question of our will to question our habits.

I got a great pair of non-leather, yet comfortable synthetic microfibre boots from the wonderfully named Moo Shoes. They’ve now relocated to the Lower East Side of Manhattan.