FondotsNo shoes are truly BIFL if you wear them regularly, but these come close
grrgyleI can’t remember if I heard it here but I have heard (and feel, anecdotally) that cycling between wearing two different pairs of shoes leads them to lasting longer than if you wore one pair until they fell apart then a second pair until they fell apart.
I don’t know how that could possibly work unless giving shoes a “break” rather than wearing every day extends their life somehow.
My evidence: I have had a separate pair of running shoes and walking shoes for a few years now.
quick_snailThat’s only a requirement for leather.
I live out of a backpack, so I can only own one pair of boots. I switched to synthetic, and my boots last decades instead of years.