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#1 2010-07-07 12:08:19
- Yale Cameron
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New Gaziano and Girling essay
Has anyone commissioned a pair of their shoes bespoke? If so, anyone have thoughts on how they compare with Cleverly or Paul Davies?
#2 2010-07-07 12:49:29
- formby
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Re: New Gaziano and Girling essay
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#3 2010-07-08 00:04:59
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Re: New Gaziano and Girling essay
Great essay and shoes.
FNB can be the best shod guy twice and not only once every week if he gets the round toe version of the black oxfords 
#4 2010-07-08 00:51:09
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#5 2010-07-08 10:21:21
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Re: New Gaziano and Girling essay
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#6 2010-07-08 12:40:08
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Re: New Gaziano and Girling essay
"I'd give all the Champagne I've ever drunk to be playing alongside him(Eric Cantona) in a big European match at Old Trafford." George Best(1946 -2005)
#7 2010-07-08 12:51:22
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Re: New Gaziano and Girling essay
I have Gaziano and Davies bespoke, not Cleverly, though, I have experience with the latter. Gaziano and Davies worked for Cleverly before going out on their own, which speaks well of Cleverly. If you're anabsolute perfectionisnt, I'd go with Cleverly, though, Tony and Paul strive to be perfectionists and Tony and Paul provide more personal attention.
Davies' shoes are the lightest. Very nice.
Difference in designs is subjective.
I think Perry Ercolino is a better shoemaker in terms of fit.
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"‘The sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inner tranquility which even religion is powerless to bestow." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not." Oscar Wilde
#8 2010-07-08 14:15:07
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Re: New Gaziano and Girling essay
I found Tony's comments about shell cordovan, so revered among the iGentry, particularly informative and amusing, especially his remark that it looked "plasticky." Usually, anybody with the temerity to make that observation in the "fora" will be met with a torrent of indignation, the gist of which being that a detractor of shell cordovan doesn't know what he's talking about.
#10 2010-07-08 16:13:09
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Re: New Gaziano and Girling essay
I thought it was an excellent discussion by Tony G.
FNB has not published in a while and I hope this will be the start of several new articles.
Love that first set of brown shoes.
http://www.filmnoirbuff.com/article/the-shoe-fits-custom-shoe-maker-tony-gaziano-of-gaziano-and-girling-discusses-the-past-present-and-future-of-fine-mens-shoes
I shall commission a suit:
So let it Bespoken
So let it be done!
#11 2010-07-08 23:30:24
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#12 2010-07-09 00:18:30
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Re: New Gaziano and Girling essay
Nice to see a new FNB essay.
#13 2010-07-09 08:28:26
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Re: New Gaziano and Girling essay
"I'd give all the Champagne I've ever drunk to be playing alongside him(Eric Cantona) in a big European match at Old Trafford." George Best(1946 -2005)
#15 2010-07-09 16:42:13
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Re: New Gaziano and Girling essay
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#16 2010-07-09 20:05:56
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Re: New Gaziano and Girling essay
"‘The sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inner tranquility which even religion is powerless to bestow." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not." Oscar Wilde
#20 2010-07-10 00:47:58
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Re: New Gaziano and Girling essay
Wow, those captoes have no blemishes whatsoever. Are they bespoke?
It's nice to see him celebrate the work of Dimitri Gomez, as I have a pair of his, semi-custom (what he calls "ligne bottier").
#21 2010-07-10 01:03:43
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Re: New Gaziano and Girling essay
"I'd give all the Champagne I've ever drunk to be playing alongside him(Eric Cantona) in a big European match at Old Trafford." George Best(1946 -2005)
#22 2010-07-10 02:11:10
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#23 2010-07-10 02:35:31
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