Red Wing has made boots in the same Minnesota town since 1905, and the factory on Main Street still turns out leather footwear a few blocks from the shop where the first pairs were sold. That continuity is the whole pitch. In a market where most work boots are assembled overseas from parts nobody can name, Red Wing kept a tannery, kept a welt line, and kept charging real money for it. The question worth answering is whether a pair earns that money over the years a person actually owns...