Now that Linds has been bought by KR, How do todays Linds compare to those from 15 years ago ? I am due for a new pair of shoes and Linds are all I have ever used . Always liked the consistant slide and I dont know if I want all the variable sole / heel combos , but I am open to suggestions
Thanks
It might be too soon to tell.
Linds had been made in America for a long time. Sometime ago they were forced by competition and rising labor costs to do what the other shoe manufactirers did a long time ago - move their manufacturing overseas. For a while it was Mexico, then it was China, I thought they had returned to the USA, but i'm not sure. Now that they've bene bought by KR, who knows what the brand will bring.
At one point, whe they were made in USA, I had a pair for 15+ years and you couldn't kill them. That's when they came with circular inserts of different skid/slide traits and you could adjust the slide a lot of ways. It preceded the Dexter and 900G/Dynothane slide soles by many years.
Dexter took a long, long time to get their quality control to the point where you didn't need to throw away disintegrating shoes after 3 months of wear. I did such with Dexter V - threw them away after 3 months - complete garbage. My Dexter Viii (8s) were much better. However LR made a much better, more comfortable shoe, first marketed under the Brunswick name, and now under the Hammer and Pyramid (I believe) name .
