After Dacks purchased the Hartt Factory (in 1957) they continued to use the Hartt name for the wholesale end of the Dack business. The same shoe line was marketed in Dack Stores under their name but the same styles going to all other...
As a point of information , the East Coast Dack factory was located in Fredricton, New Brunswick. The old factory , opened about 1900 , was the Hartt Shoe facility which Dacks purchased in 1957. About the Dufferin , this was a...
In fact, rhino was only ever a few pair made out of a very small batch of leather and the sealskin production ended many years before the company folded. These were clearly not deciding factors. It was much more about a lack of...
Well-----this a golf shoe made of Corfam-- a synthetic , not leather. The idea was that it would deal with dampness much better than the traditional leather shoe. I .haven't seen one in decades.Dack's tried these in the 70's and gave...
From what I can see this is a very unusual style for a Dack. The numbers I referred to are for style, size , last , and lot # / date. This should be 2 lines of numbers and easily readable if you can get a pic of the inside as well. If...
Post the numbers from inside the shoe and I can identify the style and perhaps the age , as well . These will make it possible to begin to set a price for them. Daxman.
I can't speak definitively about Alden or Allen Edmonds fittings but a Cheaney F width is an old Dack F or EE width . In other words quite wide and nowhere near a Medium or D width.They are using Cheaney Lasts and not Dack Lasts...
Regarding the Sealskin shoes. The width designated is F and that is the widest they were made --it is actually an EE and Dacks always used letters : D = Med. ; E = Wide; F = X- wide. The numbering inside indicates that they were made...
Generally speaking , high grade shoes are consistent in their size interpretation. That is , a D width is the accepted medium and F width is always the wide size. The G width or EEE is extra wide. The reason you can rely on this is...
