I mean probably not but Taft SEEMS interesting. I was weirded out when the owner of Taft said something along the lines of “when we first started I promised the boots would be made at a certain date when in fact I knew it wasn’t true”, on the Stitchdown podcast. Again, I’m paraphrasing but go listen to the episode.
These are on sale for $299 right now. I wasn't going to pay $500 for them because that's in the realm of Carmina.. definitely jumped on them for 299 though