Here is quite a nice Berluti shoe.

Apparently it enjoys Mozart and Chopin.   http://www.berluti.com/#/creation/polish

It has not yet been patinaed though.

So which are you tony lame or obnoxious ?

Ede and Ravenscroft were offering Cleverley in their sale. Not keen on the 'left in the sun look' or chisel toes; though Ede shoes looked fairly ordinary really. The Berluti shoe is a very nice wholecut if it is not mucked about with.

Not sure how what your saying applies to the patina brigade. I suspect most are very confident and really like what they are doing to the footwear. The Berluti lady gives them a bit of flannel to reinforce their views. There may be a few followers but I think they are mostly tossers for want of a better word. Fashionistas. To give them some credit at least they care enough to try something different.

Last edited by Kingstonian (2010-08-16 16:44:05)

I'm getting terribly confused.

I always thought  a patina was that appearance wood leather or say copper acquired over years.

The patina to some extent held the story of the use and misuse that the article was subject to. The patina wasn't "designed" it emerged from a way of use or accidents or mysterious dents and gouges.

Asking a shop to do the patina seems like buying stonewashed or already "fatigued" jeans with holes in them.