Posts by Makoto Chan

We all walk by hundreds of poorly dressed men every day. Who gives a flip for your four? It's weird that you're posting this, and obviously done more for your satisfaction than ours, which is rather pathetic or sick.

"Is it worth it yes or no answer my poal" is probably intentionally dumb way to ask this. Maybe you'd like to wear some nice socks, and you're trying to stretch your bucks. Lands End sells some nice over-the-calf socks in navy and...

The discussion of Renovateur has been very interesting for me. I often use it in place of basic conditioner, which is perhaps a bit lazy and indulgent of me. ("I bought this stuff, now I'm gonna use it as much as I can!") I'll be using...

I would suggest a suit of navy hopsack if you'd like to dress like, say, a garbage collector.

LOL at Reev as a timless gentleman.

I've been living in Japan for several years now (during the time when Japanese goods were comparatively expensive), but will probably leave for my home country (the US) in 2013. I've been thinking that I might like to have some...

There's a shoe shop in Osaka called "Old Hat" that offers MTM shoes and boots for a similar price, about 40000 yen, or $400. I thought the shoes looked very good in person. I don't recall the maker unfortunately, but I do remember that...

Here are some shoes at a similar price point (around 40000yen, or $400 USD) from SHIPS, made by Hiroshi Tsubouchi. I think they keep the price low by only offering a few models in a few different leathers. I think the leather quality...

Quote:Originally Posted by nutcracker  sure, there is always gonna be some kind of generalisation when someone is trying to decipher another culture (and possibly fall in the trap of stereotypes). Me included, who`s not guilty of...

Quote:Originally Posted by nutcracker I definitely did not want to imply that is the case for American (shoe) culture in general. I just pulled out Alden as an example because Japanese loves them so much. I`ve read Japanese article...