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#1 2011-01-21 13:13:05
- Yuca
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Ultimate Weejuns
If you appreciate loafers and you haven't seen this then brace yourself:
http://www.theweejun.com/index.php/deadstock-1960s-bass-weejuns-n734-boxed-and-the-real-definitive-history-of-bass-weejuns
some sort of banal legitimacy
#3 2011-01-22 03:50:50
- woofboxer
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Re: Ultimate Weejuns
'I'm not that keen on the Average Look .......ever'.
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#4 2011-01-22 03:58:43
- Harpo
- The Best In The West
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Re: Ultimate Weejuns
Blinkin' heck - those are nice - I am now a shade of green.............
Randy lower-class trifler
#5 2011-01-22 05:02:36
- Gibson Gardens
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Re: Ultimate Weejuns
He IS good that Weejun isn't he? I am an amateur compared to him.
GG
#7 2011-01-22 06:46:11
- woofboxer
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Re: Ultimate Weejuns
'I'm not that keen on the Average Look .......ever'.
John Simons
Achievements: banned from the Ivy Style FB Group
#8 2011-01-22 08:18:59
- Big Tony
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Re: Ultimate Weejuns
Those oldies do look rather crude. I'd have thought in the olden days even low-cost Bass shoos would have been something more than they apparently were. Kind of disappointing.
"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."
#9 2011-01-22 10:54:15
- JakeLA
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Re: Ultimate Weejuns
Here's a NOS pair of 80s Weejuns on Etsy with what appears to be the same box. So I'm not sure one could use the box design to date them.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/56556718/vintage-1980s-bass-weejuns-penny-loafers
#10 2011-01-22 17:05:45
- Prof Kelp
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Re: Ultimate Weejuns
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#11 2011-01-22 17:43:04
- Staceyboy
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Re: Ultimate Weejuns
When I was a kid my grandmother was 'head' of boys' wear (Wow!!) in a large, local and long since defunct depatment store. She told me that the notch cut out of the shoe heel was to prevent it being caught on the touser cuff. This is circa 1972 on. I've no idea if this is definitive but this was her belief at the time.
Staceyboy
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#14 2011-04-04 11:25:03
- fr3agnt
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Re: Ultimate Weejuns
New USA Made Weejuns in various colors. Size 10.5 C
#15 2011-04-04 11:49:14
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Ultimate Weejuns
Those who ever check out the 'Russell Street' Facebook page can see pics there until our friend is up & running on here.
#18 2011-04-05 00:57:39
- fr3agnt
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Re: Ultimate Weejuns
I must figure out how to post.
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#22 2011-04-09 10:32:01
- Harpo
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Re: Ultimate Weejuns
Jade, man, jaaade.
Randy lower-class trifler
#23 2011-04-11 12:23:17
- Big Tony
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Re: Ultimate Weejuns
"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 2011-04-14 09:52:50
- Hard Bop Hank
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Re: Ultimate Weejuns
“No Room For Squares”
”All political art is bad – all good art is political.”
"Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"
#25 2011-04-14 23:56:32
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Ultimate Weejuns
Fantastic post, Hank, which goes right to the soul (sole) of the forum.
The genius of the Weejun is its middle level of 'refinement' - It's not too rough & ready and it's not too overly refined. My beef with the aesthetics of the Alden LHS has always been that by trying to improve on the vamp of the Weejun by going down the English style loafer route they had lost a lot. 'Overly sophisticated' I think I called it when I first ever offered an opinion on the 'Trad' cult of them back in '06 on Andyland. The soul of Ivy isn't about an 'overly sophisticated' look. If there is such a thing as an 'Ivy Dandy' then he would be an inverted Dandy where the show would be all about a lack of show. Nothing flash or 'sophisticated' at all. Or at least the sophistication would be a covert, subverted one. Certainly there would never be any grandstanding or showboating about him...
Subtlety is ALL it's all about.
Maybe?