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#51 2008-03-18 05:18:18

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

^ An example on which I, for one, ought to reflect.

 

#52 2008-03-18 05:33:00

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

... He did however have a bespoke Covert Coat from Huntsman so we must always remember that even the best of us is often full of shit.

Bless 'im.

 

#53 2008-03-18 06:24:20

eg
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#54 2008-03-18 07:20:04

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

I think you've hit the nail on the head.

It's not the shoes, but the act of spending so much on the shoes as a fetish item.

(The Covert Coat dates to his wild youth, btw. Ditto my Brooks Makers largely unwearable in the UK Seersucker suit. There's a thread in 'Youthful Sartorial Follies' I think...)

 

#55 2008-03-18 07:23:29

yachtie
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#56 2008-03-18 07:38:01

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

This is the thing isn't it?

Bespoking everything as the best value, longest lasting, best quality items. Depending on the bespoke you wind up with...

Or -

The Puritan recoil at initially spending such un-Godly amounts of money on clothes.

Your Aldens (although not bespoke) clearly make very good financial sense for you in the long term. To another person the initial outlay would be the mark of a flashy foreign homosexualist.

I'm glad I'm just a scumbag and I never have to think about these things...

So who's doing what for Easter?

J.

 

#57 2008-03-18 08:30:51

eg
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#58 2008-03-18 08:40:27

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#59 2008-03-18 08:40:29

Tony Ventresca
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#60 2008-03-18 09:44:13

eg
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#61 2008-03-18 09:57:47

Tony Ventresca
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#62 2008-04-23 07:26:22

Tony Ventresca
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#63 2008-04-23 11:24:20

Tony Ventresca
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#64 2008-04-23 20:35:54

Ay329 Michael
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#65 2008-04-24 01:09:59

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

^
Lovely colour Michael!

I do have a soft spot for a sleeker brogue.

 

#66 2008-04-24 01:32:20

The_Shooman
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#67 2008-04-24 12:57:23

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

Sorry I can't catch an image, but J M Weston (French shoemaker IMHO = Alden, Edward Green) make a TRIPPLE sole wing tip brogue with metal tip on heal and toe. £500. Old Burlington Street, London W1.

Beauties.


Google the website (when it is up and running again)

JNW also do a very understated loafer and some other interesting lines.

RH

 

#68 2008-04-25 03:19:57

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

richmond hill, sounds like a 'real bad-ass gunboat' if you don't mind the expression! i'll definitely check on those should i ever manage a new trip to london.

 

#69 2008-04-25 03:45:31

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

Last edited by Moose Maclennan (2008-04-25 03:47:13)

 

#70 2008-04-25 04:05:59

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

are these kind of shoes called norwegians? i'm not sure if i'd be brave enough to wear those but those double soles and metal segs surely CRUNCH. 'if you step on my new brown shoes i'll bloody step on you!' big_smile

 

#71 2008-04-25 07:27:26

The_Shooman
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#72 2008-05-07 19:35:59

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

Have a pair of Allen Edmonds MacNeils in tan scotch grain calf, purchased from Ebay a while back. My cobbler thinks they are circa 1950's or so. Can get a handle on what to wear with them, as I wear mostly burgundy shell cordo. Doesnt seem right with summer stuff. I will have to look at old ads to get ideas.

 

#73 2008-05-07 19:42:01

Vaclav
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#74 2008-05-21 09:16:08

Tony Ventresca
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#75 2008-05-21 09:54:21

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

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