Learn about American history. Learn about shoes. Learn why the Amazing and Sublime Allen Edmond American Shoe Sourcing Project, Inc. is as far from the edge as you can be:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRQOzr0Ff_Q
Sad bachelors of various heights gather to sniff Coop's jock:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosecallahan/sets/72157628144615172/with/6351188173/
Last edited by Popeye Doyle (2011-11-19 15:38:45)
http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?114675-Mens-Silk-Lined-Dress-Day-Gloves
The best dressed man in Stamford, Connecticut requires a fair gloving of the tannest of all colors, lined in decadent silk. Perhaps monsieur wishes to keep one hand in a vaseline-filled glove so as to preserve its smoothness? Or, more likely, monsieur wishes to be told about the rabbits?
http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?114602-Pompous-Members
New member "Saltydawg" runs afoul of the Andyland Old Boys Club and perishes at the rapier end of their sharp wit.
http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?114598-Allen-Edmonds-removed-on-LE-website-for-current-sale
Andyland business wizzes try to figure out why Land's End doesn't want to sell Allen-Edmond Fine American Shoe-Footings for 40% off.
http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?105352-1990s-Ivy-League
Trads, lead by our brother Katon, try to figure out what ruined the Ivy look in the 1990s. They blame, in turn: Fleece, Nirvana, ethnic diversity, the Borg, "peace movement," Europeans, grunge, merit-based admissions, rappers, and the dot com bubble. I may possibly have mentioned once or twice that I attended an actual blue-ribbon Ivy League university in the late 90s (Princeton, the Harvard of New Jersey), and as I recall we selected our clothing based on what the Gap at the local mall had on clearance, and also based on what looked like it would best resist broken pieces of martini glasses. Unsurprisingly the thread takes a turn into a discussion of affirmative action; at least one member weeps bitterly for the good old days, when the headmaster of Choate simply sent a bus full of small-nosed, lily-skinned boys up to Dartmouth every six months.
Last edited by The_Shooman (2011-11-22 01:54:20)
You can always tell a brute by his shoos, and in this case Mafoofan lets it all hang out with this shocker of a shoo for black tie:
http://www.styleforum.net/t/270663/blacktiefoo-shirt-studs-and-other-fooish-contemplations#post_4889886
Last edited by Popeye Doyle (2011-11-22 19:52:35)
Last edited by The_Shooman (2011-11-22 19:30:53)
Generally I believe overly shiny (patent) shoes are for Nazis. Unless you are in black tie, in which case they are preferred.
Last edited by prince nez (2011-11-22 20:45:31)
l don't like patent shoos either, but for black tie they are a must! Gotta have that dazzling shine with such a smart looking suit. lf you don't have that dazzle on your feet the whole black tie look looks lacking...i've always thought that way since l was a kid...no igent rules for me. A dainty/fancy look with dainty fancy shoos, that's how it is with black tie.
The most useless and stupidly inane thread perhaps ever posted. Pretty much every post is idiotic.
http://www.styleforum.net/t/62464/rtw-shoe-last-comparison-thread
So they show misleading pics of the toe shape lol. But what about heel width? What about toe box height? What about the arch of the shoos and inside them? And what about people's feet being different lengths and further making all this meanlingless. Utter igent crap at it's most meaningless.
Then we get the shoo fairy postiung this crap!
http://www.styleforum.net/t/62464/rtw-shoe-last-comparison-thread#post_993291
As if it means anything. The only good thing a printout of that could be useful for is wiping your ****. ldiots!
At least A Harris isn't so dumb about these things and posts one of the most sane posts out of the drivel:
http://www.styleforum.net/t/62464/rtw-shoe-last-comparison-thread/15#post_995107
Then we have this guy:
http://www.styleforum.net/t/62464/rtw-shoe-last-comparison-thread/30#post_3322944
http://www.styleforum.net/t/62464/rtw-shoe-last-comparison-thread/45#post_4442779
OMG...what can l say except this. BAN THE SUCKER!!! Also give him and the other suckers in that thread a brain transplant as well.
btw: l do like some of those guys very much in that thread, but if they have their head in their ar*e then sometime's gotta say it so they wake up and stop posting bullcrap.
l felt like a snark, so there it is...just like old times.
Hmmmmm - Maybe it was to make a point about provincial Yorkshire hotel dinner dances ?
I was about my business at the Savoy the other week (£41 for three very ordinary drinks, the cocktails which followed were even more, but such silly fun...) and there were some black tie boys there obviously just having a quick one before heading out I know not wear. Pumps on the older two gents & patent oxfords on the younger chaps. All in proper black tie too - Nothing showy, no fancy studs & overblown details.
(I had an old Shetland on & some Cords...)
Horween Tannery Shell Cordovan Stamp Porn
http://www.styleforum.net/t/272232/horween-tannery-shell-cordovan-stamp-porn