Film Noir Buff Style Forum / Your favourite massive bastard country shoo

Bop · 2014-01-01 15:22:54

Ive become slighlty obsessed with massive pebble grained, commando soled bad boy English shoos. Yes all the US Made in Maine outdoor shoos are great. But Im not sure I want anything but these. Seeing them in the flesh Monday made me want them even more. They lend very well into the mid century plaid and 5 pockets look I like.

https://www.cheaney.co.uk/zoom.php?image=1&itemId=214

Bop · 2014-01-01 15:26:35

The blucher
https://www.cheaney.co.uk/country-leisure/15/cheaney-deal-in-hand-burnished-mahogany-rubber-sole

woofboxer · 2014-01-01 15:41:13

Bop
Have you checked out Blackmans Shoes in Cheshire Street off Brick Lane? No website just personal service and cheap prices. They sell end of line stuff and seconds from the Northampton factories and specialise in obese, fat, pumped up thick sole, bloated ratbag bastard shoes.
Woof

Bop · 2014-01-01 15:43:25

Well thats sunday sorted, thanks Woof

dryplum · 2014-01-01 16:21:55

like those cheaneys .. with a pair of jeans / cords & a green old wax barbour would look great. guess you've seen trickers country stuff as well . Keswick is nice too I think.

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Bop · 2014-01-01 16:29:25

I never got on with Trickers although I did check out the range. I think there was one called the Matlock I thought was ok. Also Barker do a shoe similar to the first one I posted that looks great too.

Bop · 2014-01-01 16:42:05

The Onslow from C&J
http://www.pediwear.co.uk/crockett/products/428.php

Kingston1an · 2014-01-01 17:51:00

I have a Hoggs of Fife in Zug grain leather http://www.hoggs.co.uk/prodcut_details.php?catid=18&product_id=29

and the Cheaney boot (for M&S) at a sale price.

I prefer not to have an agricultural brogue on this type of footwear. http://www.cheaney.co.uk/country-leisure/22/cheaney-pennine-iir-country-boots-in-burgundy-grain

Cheaneys shine up nicely but Zug grain is more robust.

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The_Shooman · 2014-01-01 17:56:13

Bop: those shoos are good, but l would have preferred a leather sole on those.

Trickers done a fantastic tan oxford full brogue that you never see photos of. l have it and it is the bees knees of country brogues, a real fat old fashioned bastard that Prince Charles would wear at his country estate.

Vass does truely wonderful full brogues in browns with goiser construction, and they are wonderful mothers indeed.....BIG F-A-T old fashioned BASTARDS.

My Grampa KISS shoos are classic country shoos, and really reeeeely old fashioned. Mr KISS did shoes in lovely Grampa tan.

Nothing better than when old fashioned country shoo are F-A-T.

There are a few good makers who do really fat looking country shoos, like the J.M.Western triple soled bastard and various ltalian makers. l could talk about this all day long....the shoo bug has bitten again and l am hungry for action.

Patrick · 2014-01-01 19:17:16

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woofboxer · 2014-01-01 23:00:41

4F Hepcat · 2014-01-02 01:42:10

These beauts from Tim Little:

http://www.timlittle.com/shop/product.php/174/bumble_bee_tan

http://www.timlittle.com/shop/product.php/68/bumble_bee_dark_brown_with_commando_sole

http://www.timlittle.com/shop/product.php/177/bumble_bee_burnt_pine_calf

And the sale is now on!

Bop · 2014-01-02 07:23:46

dryplum · 2014-01-03 15:39:01

Are pebble grained leather shoes water proof or resistant? I assume that effect is created somehow, anyone know how they do it and what it does (i've always assumed it was to make the resistant to rain/dirt as they usually have this effect on country shoes)?

Bop · 2014-01-03 15:54:56

Id be interested to know too. In my mind it made sense these shoes aren't made out of full grain. Because of being so harshly worn. So maybe it is corrected.

Kingston1an · 2014-01-03 15:58:52

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meister · 2014-01-03 16:42:25

I can't believe I am reading this thread. God those shoes are all gross!

The_Shooman · 2014-01-03 18:28:22

dryplum · 2014-01-04 14:36:20

yes, but on the subject of the actual grained pebble leather .. does anyone know if this process makes the leather water resistant? Does a machine somehow create this pebbly effect?

Sammy Ambrose · 2014-01-04 17:36:42

fxh · 2014-01-04 17:45:09

I understand pebbling arouse from in the "old days" they used to leave piles of hides on the concrete floor and the pebbling was just a result of being on the concrete for so long. Some people liked the effect and so now they create the pebbling by other means.

woofboxer · 2014-01-05 02:41:43

Pebbling is stamped into the leather, it means you can use the lower grade hides that have more surface imperfections, but which are still durable enough for shoe making and while producing a uniform finish that is acceptable to the consumer for less dressy types of footwear. Pebbling also makes the leather more waterproof which is another reason why it is used for work boots and country shoes. Military/police boots are often made of pebbled leather. When I joined up, we were required to spend hours on parade boots rubbing polish into them and using hot spoons to smooth the leather out so you could eventually bring it up to a gloss shine. Of course, it were tough in them days.

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Bop · 2014-01-07 11:46:42

Apart from the contrast stitching theyre nice!

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