I Watched Red Wing Boots Become a Meme. It’s Time to Lace ‘Em Up Again

On certain corners of the blogosphere in the 2010s, Red Wing boots were ubiquitous. So whisper it quietly if you must, but hallmarks of the #menswear era are steadily creeping back into the fashion psyche. Call it the comfort of heritage pedigree in uncertain times, but a familiar type of rough-hewn burliness is in style again. (It’s on the runway, too: Just look at all those lumberjacks in Junya Watanabe’s recent Paris show.) And while waxed jackets and selvedge jeans are hot topics of…