Posts by Liquidus

If you're a 10.5...

What reviews? Are you a 10.5 D US? Another way to get discounted shoes are factory seconds. The problem with buying shoes on discount is that even if you find something in your size, it's probably an unpopular design/color. The "bang...

C&J Westbourne. Check Robert Old. You can't have superior design AND quality AND a low price.

At your price range (~$450) Crockett and Jones Benchgrade is what people here like.

It's easy to get any BB 1818 suit for around $700-$800. There's a 25% sale right now.

It's easy to get any BB 1818 suit for around $700-$800. There's a 25% sale right now. You don't know enough to do well with MTM.

How much are you trying to pay? The best fitting ones will be the C&J ones.

Quote:Originally Posted by johanm I have a suit made from Smith Botany 3912, same plain weave as 3913 (not hopsack) but one shade lighter, and I consider it to be very much a smooth business worsted. The navy hopsack from the...

Quote:Originally Posted by msulinski The C&J trees look to be varnished. I imagine they can't absorb excess sweat, which is one of the shoe tree's main jobs I've heard that it's questionable whether they actually do that. But they...

Aside from the pricing, I think the handgrade shoe trees fit my 337 perfectly.