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#1 2009-08-06 12:30:25
- Taylor McIntyre
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Shoe Creasing?
This is on my mind so much that I've popped it out onto both forums here:
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 -
#2 2009-08-06 12:34:20
- Bishop of Briggs
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Re: Shoe Creasing?
I like to break in new shoes too.
Contrary to lies of FNB and Woofboxer, I (and most of the other "Buff Bastards") have been banned from posting on this forum. There are only a few posters left so don't waste your time on here. This forum is dead and nobody cares.
#4 2009-08-06 12:46:51
- Film Noir Buff
- Dandy Nightmare
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Re: Shoe Creasing?
It's poverty of the mind. People who suffer from this condition want everything to look new always. They just end up looking plasticky and nasty-nice, like the chap with the 10 year old sneakers that look new. Same with the anxiety over darkening the leather.
#5 2009-08-06 13:41:08
- formby
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Re: Shoe Creasing?
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
Souvent me Souvient
#6 2009-08-06 16:44:49
- eg
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Re: Shoe Creasing?
Funny you mention the "new shoe" thing, because it was true in my school days as well, though it was day-glo white new runners rather than dress shoes which got the drubbing.
#7 2009-08-06 19:52:03
- Jeeves
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Re: Shoe Creasing?
It gives the look of only wearing the shoes for special occasions which leads to comment. If the shoes are always immaculate the people are going to start asking if the person cares overly much about their appearance. I have seen this happen in the City and it is never career enhancing.
Personally I always break in shoes on trips to the shops and similar errands.
#9 2009-08-07 06:44:32
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Shoe Creasing?
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#10 2009-08-07 06:53:05
- formby
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Re: Shoe Creasing?
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
Souvent me Souvient
#11 2009-08-07 06:56:32
- Film Noir Buff
- Dandy Nightmare
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Re: Shoe Creasing?
Shoes are an example of what should be plain on a man with a few exceptions. With the iGentry, shoes become a fetish and then they become obsessed about every possible exception and covet them all. Even to the extent that their first pair will be a bizarre choice. Thus, I'm not surprised that they freak out over a crease in the shoe.
Also, maybe some of these people have never owned shoes growing up an don't know they're supposed to wrinkle?
#12 2009-08-07 10:32:26
- Sammy Ambrose
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Re: Shoe Creasing?
All those concerned with creasing, should follow this link.
http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?t=96077&highlight=creases+wrinkles
Magic way to remove creases and wrinkles from shoes
By chance I have hit on what appears to me to be a novel way of miraculously removing creases and wrinkles from shoes. If this is old hat and a well known wheeze please forgive my enthusiasm!
Anyway here's the magic formula.
1. Insert well fitting trees and if necessary wrap the front of the tree with Giant vibrator paper to well and truly flatten out any creases and wrinkles.
2. Wipe with a damp cloth and let dry and then buff to remove all traces of dirt.
3. Apply wax polish liberally enough and massage with the thumbs across the grain of the creases and wrinkles.
4. Leave shoes to rest for a few hours.
5. Buff well and then apply conditioner in the same manner (ie across the grain).
6. Before the conditioner has dried use a clothes steamer to heat the conditioner, which is on the shoes, and again rub the conditioner into the creases and wrinkles across the grain.
7. Finally, buff well with rapid strokes and you will find as I did that the wrinkles and creases have considerably diminished.
8.Repeat procedure until you have shoes wondrously crease and wrinkle free!
If you aren't seeing through all three eyes at once day and night you are up shit creek without a paddle. The Shooman
#13 2009-08-07 10:53:07
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Shoe Creasing?
At last - A voice of reason.
Many thanks.
#14 2009-08-07 16:39:27
- Big Tony
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Re: Shoe Creasing?
"What sort of post-apocalyptic deathscape is this?"
"I don't want to look like a cock hungry sailor after all !!!"
"When it comes to infidelity, broken families, and reckless fatherhood, the underclass are amateurs."
#15 2009-08-08 01:05:56
- The Ace Face
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Re: Shoe Creasing?
Is it better to own a pair of cheap and shiny new shoes, or an old pair of quality, preferably bench made shoes with creases of a generation or two? The answer is obvious, quality decades down the line remains quality and crap won't last even a decade and remains crap until it disintegrates in one or two seasons
Ofcourse, for a consumer economy its better to produce crap, preferably with sygil logos visible or invisible and caveats for iGents/Chavs/Gangsta' Rappers to feel part of a inner sanctum of a destined elite of mannequins, frozen in one moment of perfection. Neutered ofcourse, that's all part of the deal, you don't want the herd to think as you drive them into the slaughterhouse of individual style.
Draped and sculpted hep cat suit - as worn by His Royal Hepness, Cab Calloway
#16 2009-08-08 21:19:15
- The_Shooman
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Re: Shoe Creasing?
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#17 2009-08-08 21:47:38
- The_Shooman
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Re: Shoe Creasing?
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#18 2009-08-08 23:29:36
- Sammy Ambrose
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Re: Shoe Creasing?
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If you aren't seeing through all three eyes at once day and night you are up shit creek without a paddle. The Shooman
#19 2009-08-09 07:57:15
- Big Tony
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Re: Shoe Creasing?
Yeah Shooey, I agree.
And whatever happened to brown shoos? Why do the iGents obsess over 'tobacco' or 'whiskey' colored shoos? As you say, they look like poo! There is nothing more appropriate for fine shoos, as a good brown color. Not purple, not cream, not anything else, just BROWN.
"What sort of post-apocalyptic deathscape is this?"
"I don't want to look like a cock hungry sailor after all !!!"
"When it comes to infidelity, broken families, and reckless fatherhood, the underclass are amateurs."
#20 2009-08-09 08:34:35
- The Ace Face
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Re: Shoe Creasing?
^Its like the Allegro car from the 1970's all available shades and hues of colours, so long as you put the word 'Dog Shit' in front. Particulary, dog shit brown and green.
Draped and sculpted hep cat suit - as worn by His Royal Hepness, Cab Calloway
#21 2009-08-09 09:46:19
- Film Noir Buff
- Dandy Nightmare
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Re: Shoe Creasing?
How does this important thread get one fifth the number of hits as the Aboriginal one?
#23 2009-08-09 11:33:17
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
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Re: Shoe Creasing?
The OP of the 'Abo' thread hyped his. One simply sits on the 'refresh' button here. An old troll trick.
If you'd like, I'll have this one given 10,000 hits.
What a world!
#24 2009-08-09 12:12:03
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
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Re: Shoe Creasing?
'Kay - That's bumped this up a tad.
I won't link up an iBot, but you get the idea.
#25 2009-08-09 12:36:14
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
- Posts: 342
Re: Shoe Creasing?
The 'shoe crease' thing is probably only just a bit of a kinda/sorta semi-neat metaphor for all the rest of all this online stuff too -
What about the fetish for 'drape' or 'fit' or any of the other details which are elevated online to the point where they transcend being 'well-dresed' to the point of looking like a ForaFreak?
... You know, I watched 'Charade' the other day & imagined how Cary would get ripped into online... By a bunch of self-validating little online dweebs...
Oy!
How did all this start? With 'experts' like Manton, Monky & Harris?
Oh, the harm those needy thickheads & their spawn have done...