Too cool! Do Sanders make all leather Playboys or just suede?
They do/did black leather, never seen any other colours.
Last edited by Tomiskinky (2015-01-26 15:02:27)
Looks like a company called Hewetson did some crepe sole boots? I'm poking around...
Chuck, those aren't gonna cut it. Let's keep looking.
Last edited by Jivy (2015-01-26 18:28:22)
^
They make those in a brown suede as well.
Good price too! Seems to have good reviews.
They look close to cute Tony's.
I wish they didn't have that logo on the side though. They would be perfect.
The logo is a real bummer. I mean, who cares who made the dang shoes, right?
RJ Colts are mention in the Quality of Crepes thread, plastic lined so your feet with sweat and I believe they are not actually a crepe soloe.
As I remember they were not rated highly.
Tom Weejun nails there quality thus...
Those GBX/RJ Colt plastic shoes are so bad.
Last edited by Tomiskinky (2015-01-27 00:46:56)
^ concur with T here, avoid those RJ Colt shoes.
Non vintage options if you can find them-
Clarks Desert Earl
George Cox - Pop Boy
Beams+ (tho' I believe these are rebadged Cox Pop-Boys)
Delicious Junction 'Bullitt' boots
Adaptor Clothing 60s 'P.Boy' boot
Vintage versions worth searching out-
Trickers (2 and 3 eyelet versions from the early 70s)
Knapp Brothers ( they also produced a 'ripple' sole chukka)
Also worth looking for are the MARK MCNAIRY NEW AMSTERDAM - SUEDE PLAYBOY CHUKKA.
If you find a pair they are made by Sanders but have the round toe, ridiculously expensive mind you!
Last edited by Chet (2015-01-27 07:45:28)
Not sure about the Adaptor ones either, guess they could be a beater shoe.
Forgot, Common People did some too a few years back called the Dylan, they split on the sole and the foxing often came away, I had a couple of pairs scored in tkmaxx - but they were not going out shoes!
^ those 're-issue' Trickers Mudguards are made for Trickers by Sanders,
although they are/were an 'export only' product they have appeared at the Trickers 'flag-ship' store on Jermyn Street in London (priced at an eye-watering £349).
I have a pair of Mudguards in snuff suede, £29 from Blackmans 4 years ago, I keep going back to see if the have more, alas no! Haha.