Patience dear boy. Patience 
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Embarrassingly I believe that I owned something very similar during my 85-87 hair metal phase.
Christ only knows what happened to them. How come you still have this kind of stuff?
I have several pairs, because Florida, extremely comfortable.
Peak Cunty - And, you have prompted others to come forward in their pointed crimes against foot wear. A watershed moment for this thread - Deliciously unforgivable.
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smirk…
They hold a degree of sentimental value. I wore them when I got married 1991 and again when we renewed our vows in Las Vegas (2001 - where I bought another pair).
I’ve never been motivated to get rid of them.
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Boreal Jokers are vdiff boots… 
These are minimum E5 - I know because I’ve still got a pair in size 7 (I’m size 9 - shop said "you’ll need them a lot smaller 
) and they’re so painful I can’t wear them for longer than it takes to walk from comfy-boot-putting-on rock to crag. As a result I wear my 5.10 Diamonds which aren’t allowed on owt harder than about E1…
Nope. Didn’t understand a fecking word of that…
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There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.
But by way of gentle explanation, vdiff (or Very Difficult) rock climbs are easy. Though they can also be surprisingly difficult. Next climbing grade up is Severe, which may be either easier or harder than a vdiff. Then you’ve got Very Severe followed by Hard Very Severe, both of which can be easier than a vdiff or harder than an E3. After this the Extremely Severe grade was brought in (shortened to E1) to denote climbs that were probably harder than Hard Very Severe (HVS), but would only be given vdiff in Yorkshire. As harder climbs were done E grades 2-11 appeared, most of which were a damn sight easier than a vdiff off-width chimney.
And if all that wasn’t enough, there’s technical grades, French sport grades, US and Australian grades, UIAA grades. Suffice it to say there’s 2 types of climb - those you can do and those you can’t. But if you can get into a pair of La Sportiva Mirage boots you can probably do any of them.
HTH!
WTF has this got to do with footwear. Keep the “sporty” shit elsewhere
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You are Robert smith
you really are in need of help.
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Did you favour the jean inside or outside the boot.? 
Late 70s it was inside. Then it became a Hokey Cokey dependent on era.
hotpants…
Are they meant to be that weird fucking shape? Bcos I am reasonably certain (110%) that the human foot certainly isn’t, and that being in agony while inexplicably climbing up things without a ladder is just plain fucking stupid, and the sort of bollocks dreamed-up by showily-macho types to give them the means to loudly outbrag B-grade showily-macho types in pubs, to the extreme uninterest of all the normies abandoning their pints and going somewhere less cunty.
By way of balance. I owned cowboy boots in the 70s. For pussy reasons - sensu lato. I did, however, know better by the 90s.
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