As part of the 10th anniversary of Doors Open, Blundstone Canada participated in the opening weekend of the Brickworks. It was a beautiful weekend, full of stories, drumming circles, site tours and boot tossing. You can check out more pictures at our flickr site.

We’ll be hanging out at the Brickworks this weekend, supporting Evergreen. Come by, toss some boots, maybe even win a pair. For directions and details go to Evergreen.ca

Hey there!

How about a chance at a free trip to Tasmania?!

Don’t be afraid. This is fun. What do you have to lose? Just upload a picture of your boots and a few words about them and your Blundstone boots could take you and a friend to magical Tasmania. To enter click here.

Here are some of my highlights entered so far:

That’s a direct quote from one of our long time Blundstone customers. He came in a few weeks ago to replace his worn blundstones, and we started chatting about socks. As an Icebreaker sock addict myself,** I might have appeared a bit evangelical about the Icebreaker Merino Wool Socks, but he liked what I had to say, and took a pair home with him. He came back today and picked up four more pairs, because he was amazed. ‘Stupidly amazed’ he said. I agreed knowingly. “Welcome to the club”.

*For those of you who think a sock is just a sock, I dare you to try a pair of icebreaker merino socks. When it is laundry day and I’m digging through my drawer searching for socks, I bypass my cotton socks, my socks that slip down over the course of the day and bunch up under my heel, my expensive synthetic blend socks, my socks that make my feet sweat, my old wool work socks, and the ones printed with cats that my nephew gave me for Christmas. In fact, if I can’t find a clean pair of Icebreaker socks, I have been known to pull a pair out of the laundry bin.

Check out this excerpt from the “Daily Telegraph” over in Australia:

“There’s a bit of the Aussie macho about Worthington – kind of Russell Crowe, before he got famous – as we sit at a table at his Sydney agent’s office.

In jeans, old T-shirt and well-worn Blundstone boots, there’s something refreshingly normal about the man. He doesn’t have the ego associated with being named one of Hollywood’s hottest young faces.”

You can read the full article here

I scoured far and wide to find some pictures of Sam in his Blundstones, and all I could find was an imdb link to the 2000 movie Bootmen where the main characters strap on some Blundstones to create a tap dance troupe.

Have you ever been at home, sitting in front of your computer browsing you tube vids, and it occured to you to google your own name? Well we google ‘australian boot company‘ all the time to see what pops up. This time, we found we had some fans out there! Check out this snazzy reveiw from Dardana at yelp.ca:

“I happen to be a fan of the old tyme adage of doing one thing, and doing it extremely well. I really enjoy the notion of a store that is small and extremely specialized; for instance, only selling boots that come from Australia. I dare you to get more specific than that.

In one trip there, I discovered the difference between “Emus” and “Uggs” (“uhh, they’re different brands?” my shopping buddy answered patronizingly) and that Blundstones only come in fun colours for kids. However, the persuasive salesman *did* tell me they were the second last pink pair in Canada, almost persuading me to buy them, two sizes too small! Now those are some mad selling skills (or I’m just dumb…or probably exaggerating).

Most importantly, the staff really does know their stuff, a point proven by the fact that they can distinguish between Australian and American sizes, and actually think to ask this when assisting you. This in turn prevents mix-ups experienced by certain people I may or may not know *ahem* who should have known (and definitely do now) that Australian boots should be purchased at the store that knows them best! Geez.”

Thanks for this awesome testimonial Dardana! And just so you know – we’re getting some very cool red leather blundstones in for Fall!

Click here to read the rest of the testiomonials at yelp.ca

Despite being an iconic Aussie Boot style, Blundstone has been making CSA Safety approved boots for the Canadian market since 2003.

Who could resist the comfort and durability of the legendary
Blundstones in a safety boot?

And for our American customers, who might not know what CSA
implies: CSA is the Canadian safety standard for work boots and safety boots throughout Canada.

It is comparable to ASTM or ANSI, except that CSA’s safety
standards usually exceed the standars outlines by ANSI or ASTM. We are
always more than happy to outline the specific details between CSA and
ASTM/ANSI.

Just Email us at info@australianboot.com

You can view our CSA Styles by clicking here.

rogue photographers took over the bootmobile

Maybe you’ve seen the Blundstone bootmobile cruising around Vancouver. Here it is in all it’s spring glory! Watch for it this summer on it’s Vancouver to Toronto journey!