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#1 2009-04-10 07:22:29
- Taylor McIntyre
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Beyond "The Look" - "The Vibe" -
Things that fit in with The Look just because they have the right vibe -
I'll start with Paraboot. Not Ivy, not American, but they have a vibe that fits in with The Look and so they work.
Does that make sense?
#2 2009-04-10 07:28:51
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Beyond "The Look" - "The Vibe" -
The Para 'Harvard' - Zip off the label with the Stanley Knife you carry around with you everywhere ( 
) -
A nice high cut.
http://www.paraboot.com/main.asp?groupID=2&topicID=1&subtopicID=1&prodID=22
Better than the Para 'Universite' I bought last year.
#3 2009-04-10 07:30:51
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Beyond "The Look" - "The Vibe" -
http://www.paraboot.com/main.asp?groupID=2&topicID=1&subtopicID=1&prodID=17
Maybe? Why not?
#4 2009-04-10 07:34:17
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Beyond "The Look" - "The Vibe" -
http://www.pediwear.co.uk/paraboot/products/2266.php
I wear the Thames. Wish I'd got these.
#5 2009-04-10 07:35:58
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Beyond "The Look" - "The Vibe" -
http://www.pediwear.co.uk/paraboot/products/2257.php
No?
#6 2009-04-10 07:37:23
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Beyond "The Look" - "The Vibe" -
And lastly - What my wife calls my 'Spack Boots':
http://www.pediwear.co.uk/paraboot/products/2255.php
#9 2009-04-10 08:40:01
- frenchquarter68
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Re: Beyond "The Look" - "The Vibe" -
I've had a pair of Avignon for some years now. I think it's a look you love or hate.
I can say they are supremely comfortable, really hard wearing and improve with age.
The Verlaine ankle boots look great. Tempted.
#10 2009-04-10 08:41:22
- Hard Bop Hank
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Re: Beyond "The Look" - "The Vibe" -
Definitely!
I also prefer these Avignons to the the other ones that have a sole more like the Michael... (I think I have only seen them on the pediwear site)
I love the Michael, but I'd prefer the Avignons with the flat leather soles, they're a bit like JM Weston Chasse, right? split-toe gibsons, Norwegians, whatever you call them... I don't own them... But they're on my list...
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#11 2009-04-10 08:51:59
- chetmiles
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Re: Beyond "The Look" - "The Vibe" -
One of the oddest makes I've ever worn; including the black mocs. Thumbs down from me, I'm afraid.
#12 2009-04-10 09:01:19
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Beyond "The Look" - "The Vibe" -
Beyond Paraboot what else would you nominate purely on feeling alone?
#13 2009-04-10 09:13:46
- chetmiles
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Re: Beyond "The Look" - "The Vibe" -
I do like my English made Clarks chukka boots: toffee-coloured leather and very sturdy. They don't have pride of place on my shoe rack, unlike Jarman, AE or Bass, but they are a reliable stand-by, looking at their best with baggy dark green cords and a Paul Stuart Shetland crew neck sweater. I can appear at the school I work in from time to time, do a lot of walking and feel confident they'll hold together. Far superior to the current desert boot.
#14 2009-04-10 13:14:51
- ScarletStreet
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Re: Beyond "The Look" - "The Vibe" -
I think any big and heavy shoe has its place or "the vibe". It does to me, anyway. I always wished my Weejuns had double soles.
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#17 2009-04-11 06:27:08
- Fred
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Re: Beyond "The Look" - "The Vibe" -
J. Keydge slack jackets - wonderful. I have two - one cord, one moleskin, just perfect.
#18 2009-04-11 06:51:50
- chetmiles
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Re: Beyond "The Look" - "The Vibe" -
Yes. I have a sandy-coloured linen one. "Makes you look just like a 50s jazz musician" quoth the man at 2 Russell Street...
#19 2009-04-11 07:00:07
- ScarletStreet
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Re: Beyond "The Look" - "The Vibe" -
"All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it." -- H.L. Mencken
#20 2009-04-11 07:01:49
- Fred
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Re: Beyond "The Look" - "The Vibe" -
They are truly wonderful, look just right. I recently saw some dirt cheap on a French site - available only for France. Shame, I would have bought a number of them.
#21 2009-04-11 07:02:51
- Fred
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Re: Beyond "The Look" - "The Vibe" -
Above post was referring to J. Keydge not resoling.....
#22 2009-12-18 06:19:50
- Alex Roest
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Re: Beyond "The Look" - "The Vibe" -
Those Red Wing chukkas do qualify as well IMO : http://www.oipolloi.com/store/RedWing-WorkChukkaBootBrown-6396.html
This thread was worth a bump anyway.....
#23 2009-12-20 02:48:46
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: Beyond "The Look" - "The Vibe" -
... And Ivy was always such a magpie style anyway, plundering the world for fabrics and textures to combine in its unique way. It was always expanding.
I'm in deep knitwear mode just now (Must be the weather...) and the more you look back the more you see - Surely the Ivy style has the richest options for knitwear of any style?
A plain Ragg Wool crew neck from LL Bean won out today after looking at Norwegian & Fairisle options. Very New England, very less-is-more. It's so understated that it's perfect: No big statements, just warmth, moderate weight & rugged good looks which avoid all the usual cliches of something like a Norwegian sweater.
http://reviews.llbean.com/1138/IG93171/reviews.htm
Not a sweater you'll find in the OPH.