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#2 2010-05-17 23:27:58
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Re: Some new made-in-USA pennys
Call me cheap but I think this is a ridiculous price for calfskin loafers.
#3 2010-05-18 01:22:54
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Some new made-in-USA pennys
Rather a low cut to those full strap pennies like some old Cole Haan I've seen - Which reading the story there makes perfect sense.
#4 2010-05-18 02:54:33
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Re: Some new made-in-USA pennys
The vamp is far too short. These look like womens' shoes. A wasted opportunity as the materials and construction are probably good.
Someone is missing a trick because I'm sure a facsimile of the classic penny weejun style in decent materials would be a strong seller in certain markets worldwide.
#5 2010-05-18 05:33:39
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Re: Some new made-in-USA pennys
The lower vamp always looks a bit 'Italian' to me - No idea what I mean by that.
#6 2010-05-18 06:35:22
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Re: Some new made-in-USA pennys
or maybe Belgian? 
Dunno about Italian loafers, I think they do both very low and very high vamp loafers...
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#7 2010-05-18 07:15:21
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Re: Some new made-in-USA pennys
Good looking shoos, in good proportions for the US.
I realize everyone trumpets the original Weejuns as some sort of perfected object, but in reality they were always cheap shoos and had low vamps (which will be clear in the old advertisements I posted in years past).
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#9 2010-05-18 08:59:26
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Re: Some new made-in-USA pennys
However looking at the pics on Andyland it apepars the vamp is proabably too low to be really sharp, although they would make great house shoos or casual loafers, certainly nothing that could be worn in a sharp way. (Maybe one has be in North America to see the appeal of this type of low vamp shoo.)
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#10 2010-05-18 09:09:27
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Re: Some new made-in-USA pennys
Very casual I think - Showing all that sock at the front.
... Unless you had a long Euro-style trouser break to puddle all over them...
#12 2010-05-18 10:17:48
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Re: Some new made-in-USA pennys
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#14 2010-05-18 11:11:22
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Re: Some new made-in-USA pennys
^I'm with NSB on all counts, they look like women's shoes or some camp dainty dandy shoe straight out of Edward Green's vision of the 1780's.
The Alden ones on the other thread, have the same style mistakes.
Too girly for me.
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#15 2010-05-18 14:25:34
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Re: Some new made-in-USA pennys
Agree with both of you NSB & 4F
the weejun was a perfect example of form and function.
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#16 2010-05-18 14:32:44
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Re: Some new made-in-USA pennys
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#17 2010-05-18 16:00:22
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Re: Some new made-in-USA pennys
Nothing says "off-duty arms dealer" like a pair of short-vamp loafers in luxurious calfskin.
#18 2010-05-18 21:39:01
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Re: Some new made-in-USA pennys
Nice loafers. I like a good thick beef roll.
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#20 2010-05-19 01:41:20
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Re: Some new made-in-USA pennys
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#22 2010-05-19 11:42:36
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Re: Some new made-in-USA pennys
"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."
#23 2010-05-19 12:06:18
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Re: Some new made-in-USA pennys
"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."
#24 2010-05-19 14:08:24
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Re: Some new made-in-USA pennys
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#25 2010-05-19 15:22:46
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Re: Some new made-in-USA pennys
The beefroll model is actually pretty nice and seems far more balanced in its proportions.
The venetian version looks pretty good too. If these are the people who used to do hand-sewing for Allen Edmonds then it's probably a very similar shoe to the AE 'Preston' model still available in Germany.
http://www.allenedmonds.de/Schuhe/allenedmonds-pre.html
http://www.goertz.de/schuhe/herren/allen%20edmonds/preston%20weite%20e/braun/0000062693001,de_DE,pd.html?AffiliateID=ZX_G1&mediacode=zanox
I have a pair of these in a very polished dark burgundy but notice that they are now being made in a softer brown full grain leather. Only a guess but I have a feeling that they won't be available for very much longer.
The shell cordovan version for Leffot looks moderately tempting at over six hundred dollars.
http://blog.leffot.com/?s=take+ivy