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#1 2008-02-21 05:45:49

The_Shooman
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Gun Boats - like `em or h8 `em?

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#2 2008-02-21 06:12:44

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Re: Gun Boats - like `em or h8 `em?

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#3 2008-02-21 06:17:06

mike
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Re: Gun Boats - like `em or h8 `em?

I have an old pair of brown wingtips (my brown brogues) which i got from my uncle.  Others have called them gunboats - is that a common term?  i like them a lot.  they're the only ones i have.


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#4 2008-02-21 06:22:28

The_Shooman
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#5 2008-02-21 07:27:28

yachtie
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Re: Gun Boats - like `em or h8 `em?

Alden shell longwings. The USS Missouri of gunboats. smile

 

#6 2008-02-21 08:43:49

The_Shooman
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#7 2008-02-21 08:58:49

Get Smart
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Re: Gun Boats - like `em or h8 `em?

LOVE them

I have Vass Budapester, Alden longwing, Hanover longwing, florsheim longwing, Brooks Peal (Sargent) brogue boots...all great shoes.  Perfect for wearing with jeans

Would love to include a Dinklelacker in my collection at some point.

They're deffo an aquired taste, but once you can "see" the awesomeness of them, your life is changed

 

#8 2008-02-21 09:02:49

AQG
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#9 2008-02-21 10:35:33

Tony Ventresca
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I love long-wing brogues, but I'm simply not impressed with modern offerings.
They just don't seem right somehow. It may be a lost art (to design those things).
One would hope Allen Edmonds, and Alden, would get it right: but they don't.
The British are hit or miss.

Unless one has a time machine, bespoke may be the only way to get a good wearable show, without buying shoes that are like army boots.

 

#10 2008-02-21 10:40:26

The_Shooman
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Re: Gun Boats - like `em or h8 `em?

Ah man....l can't imagine how good it must be to have long wings in your collection.

ln the early days, l bought my gunboats through a Florshiem seconds shop. Unfortunately, they never had longwings in the stock. l always bought the plain toe and captoe gunboats (there were always unusual runoffs of shoos never available in the stores).  Wore the gunboats everywhere as a teen (in creeks, up mountains, on the beach)...destroyed quite afew of the rascals too. 

Just bought a mate a pair of his first Trickers gunboats last week. He is absolutely delighted with them.

l've only ever seen one long-wing in real life. A blake stitched Moreshci.

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#11 2008-02-21 11:03:21

Tony Ventresca
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Re: Gun Boats - like `em or h8 `em?

These things should be long and sleek (not stubby & fat).
Country grain leather is also best.

 

#12 2008-02-21 11:31:40

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Re: Gun Boats - like `em or h8 `em?

love my florsheim gunboats very very much. agree w/ jason, great with jeans.

 

#13 2008-02-22 08:05:03

Tony Ventresca
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#14 2008-02-22 09:04:36

Taylor McIntyre
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#15 2008-02-26 10:18:05

Tony Ventresca
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#16 2008-02-26 10:54:05

Vaclav
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Re: Gun Boats - like `em or h8 `em?

In this Age of Quarrel can't, you make a more, peaceful name for, these shoes ?

 

#17 2008-02-26 11:15:08

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#18 2008-03-12 08:28:13

Tony Ventresca
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#19 2008-03-12 08:50:56

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#20 2008-03-12 09:17:56

The_Shooman
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#21 2008-03-12 09:26:14

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#22 2008-03-12 09:41:07

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#23 2008-03-12 09:53:12

The_Shooman
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#24 2008-03-12 10:09:30

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#25 2008-03-12 10:25:42

The_Shooman
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