Last edited by The_Shooman (2010-10-27 19:43:19)

A hopelessly ill informed post from one of the biggest nubs on the net:
http://www.styleforum.net/showpost.php?p=3744005&postcount=9

They are NOT quality and they are NOT made in Australia anymore. Get a clue buddy boy!

l don't call him `man of sh*t' for nothing ya know.

The more it posts the worse that forum becomes. Pthh.
http://www.beaututes.com/showthread.php/6862-Blundstone-factory-to-close
http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/blundstone/2007/01/17/

Yet another CEO being paid good performance bonuses to strip down a business. The more they scrounge the more they are praised for saving money. l reckon that thinking is old hat now,..too much 90's thinking. Time for smart businessmen to start running things again, anyone can screw a company by making cuts. Get rid of these CEO's and get real leaders running companies again.

Last edited by The_Shooman (2010-10-28 00:43:30)

Last edited by fxh (2010-10-28 11:37:46)

Last edited by Gilgamesh2003 (2010-10-28 16:58:03)

http://takimag.com/article/black_tie_for_dummies4/print#disqus_thread

"A fine point: Ironically, the best tailors, Anderson & Sheppard"

Obviously not acquainted with A&S/Hitchcock Snr's disasters for iGents, e.g. Manton's abortion of a tweed sports jacket.

I just read this thread : http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?108770-Cheesed-with-AE-exchange

Let me see if I understand this:

A guy wants to return some shoes because if he looks at them from a certain angle, in certain light on a Tuesday or Thursday morning, and he sets them up together in a certain way, it appears to him that the seam or something across the cap toe doesn't line up like he would expect an expensive piece of high grade surgical equipment to line up with each other. I don't know who stands with their feet together parallel so that anyone would notice - perhaps an obscure Masonic Lodge somewhere?

Then he walks around on the carpet at home and they "expel air" - I supposes it is possible but .....


Then to cap it off the CEO of the shoe company replies to him on a internet clothes forum!

What the hell is the CEO doing with his time? How big is this shoe company? Haven't they heard of Pareto - they should be working hard to (politely) get rid of all these Shoe Harridans and get on with selling shoes and making money. Or are all USA male shoe wearers like this? Or is the shoe business so bad that in a nation of 320 millions or so, at least some of whom are shoe wearers, a CEO has to personally sell shoes one by one by one?

I think this is partially an iGent thing. The average suburban male wears $12.00 white sneakers bought from Costco. He wears them cheerfully until they separate into their components and must be held together with twine. Then his wife steals them away and destroys them, then he buys another identical pair.

That said, we Americans do entertain a fantasy, which I think dates back at least to the 1980s, that corporations must value their customers so highly that they will simply give us things if we complain. I think the iGentry have professionalized this technique, especially with Allen-Edmonds. Obviously the OP with the flatulent shoes knew that Grangaard posts on Ask Andy and could therefore be certain that he would get his imaginary problem remedied.

God knows who is buying Allen-Edmonds. AskAndy and Styleforum together have about 100,000 registered members (a number that surely does not accurately represent how many actual real people are involved in the "fora"). I guess getting free advertising (in the form of cheerful customer service narratives) to some small percentage of that number is worth the CEO's time. Or perhaps the CEO has a lackey posting in his persona. I'm with you, though, FXH - better a single normal customer than a dozen prima donna iGents.