Why are you the way that you are? I not once have said, "Dr. Martens quality has been unwavering since day 0". I never said and never will that they are hallmark BIFL boots that will last 300 years like hallmark BIFL boots such as Alden. But they will last a good long time and can be repaired. And if you feel that anyone who automatically dismisses items made in *.country is not xenophobic...of that I can't help.