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#1 2008-07-19 07:31:38
- Kingstonian
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Creasing on Royals
I have always found classic Oxfords to be a shoe that does not crease too much.
However, with what Americans call a 'blucher' you can get huge creases.
I think Americans avoid it because they have more widths available. Wingtips hide it better than plaincaps. Cordovan can exaggerate the creases too.
Here is an example :-
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Cheaney-shoes-handmade-by-Churchs_W0QQitemZ290245685045QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item290245685045&_trksid=p3286.m14.l1318
Lightly worn and too small ? I wonder what they would look like if they were heavily worn and too big ?
#2 2008-07-19 09:05:25
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Creasing on Royals
I suspect a lack of shoe-trees also.
#4 2009-08-06 12:27:53
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Creasing on Royals
A question which I have to ask:
What's the problem with creasing and shoes? Surely it's just a made-up iGent thing?
Shoes should never look new. That was a given when I was a lad. If fact at my school (public in the English sense) anyone turning up in obviously new shoes would have them 'christened' for him by everybody else stepping or even jumping on them.
True.
One 'broke in' ones' shoes before they were fit to be seen. They were polished as and when, but they were never vulgar and 'new' looking.
Can anybody shed any light on this for me? Aren't all the shoe perfectionists out there just dead common in fact without a clue about how to look as if they have any class?
Many Thanks -
#7 2009-08-06 17:04:25
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Creasing on Royals
... And so the penny drops:
iGents are stuck in some kind of adolescent tribal rut?
It seems obvious now.
#9 2009-08-06 17:40:46
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Creasing on Royals
'Ello, my racist chum.
It's a brave twat who comes in here.
Stay & play why don't you?
#11 2009-08-07 02:19:48
- Moose Maclennan
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Re: Creasing on Royals
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#13 2009-08-07 03:21:42
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Creasing on Royals
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/5/5b/20070802122215!Cornish_pasty_-_cut.jpeg
http://static.squidoo.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/lens2130109_1219153271Pint_of_Scrumpy.jpg
#15 2009-08-07 05:48:41
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Re: Creasing on Royals
Fuck off, as my Higgins would say.
x
#17 2009-08-17 08:51:29
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Re: Creasing on Royals
Here is a cordovan blog with an example of cordovan creasing. The photos are to highlight colour changes - but that is not my interest.
Maybe the shoes in question have not been in trees, but the wingtips crease differently to calf. They illustrate what I mean to some extent; though I was thinking of more dramatic examples.
http://horween.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/brownout/
#18 2009-08-17 11:30:15
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Creasing on Royals
Very interesting - And I guess it's only personal taste as to whether you like that ageing or not. I certainly see your point about the difference to calf too.