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THE 2024 ALLEN EDMONDS (AE) APPRECIATION THREAD
You’re in the 90’s? Have some Mark Morrison: (P.S. I wish you hadn’t said that about the color of those Maritimes. Now that’s all I see.)- wasmisterfu
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- Forum: Classic Menswear
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THE 2024 ALLEN EDMONDS (AE) APPRECIATION THREAD
You’re clearly leading a far more interesting life than I am.- wasmisterfu
- Post #1,321
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
The closely cropped welt, minimalist styling and sleek last says mid 60’s to me. But I could be wrong.- wasmisterfu
- Post #50,127
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
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- Post #50,126
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
For 23 bucks? Yeah, I think you can totally get some wear out of them. With a bit of dressing to disguise the issues (which I can’t spot in the photos anyway, outside of the collar piping) nobody will notice. They’ll just see some badass ‘gators that were made on a really sleek mod-era last (the...- wasmisterfu
- Post #50,123
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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THE 2024 ALLEN EDMONDS (AE) APPRECIATION THREAD
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- Post #1,319
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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THE 2024 ALLEN EDMONDS (AE) APPRECIATION THREAD
A couple? Yikes. But the shoes look terrific, FWIW.- wasmisterfu
- Post #1,318
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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THE 2024 ALLEN EDMONDS (AE) APPRECIATION THREAD
You’re getting banged in the pool? I’d take the shoes off first.- wasmisterfu
- Post #1,317
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
Well, first off, you zeroed in on the real moral of my post, which is to solve the problem through more shoes. As for the 7, if it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work. I find AE’s 201 last to be a hot mess on my feet at any size, as it’s just too high volume with too high a cone. That said, it’s too...- wasmisterfu
- Post #50,120
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
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- Post #50,116
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
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- Post #50,114
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
So I dunno where @Shoonoob is nowadays, but he’s done both PC to spectator conversions and (what I thought were the best shoes of the 2018 restoration competition) “correctobucks”. He’d be a great source of info, but his posts are still out there, and worth reading. As for your concern… Let...- wasmisterfu
- Post #50,112
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
I’m so terribly annoyed those aren’t in my size.- wasmisterfu
- Post #50,106
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
Recommend using a cut up old cotton tee. Lots of acetone and scotch (though don’t mix them up - acetone is for shoes, scotch is for you). Use relatively gentle (but a little firm) swipes. You’re not so much trying to rub or scrape it off as wipe-on / wipe-off. You’re trying to dissolve and wipe...- wasmisterfu
- Post #50,105
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
Date code is 1984, the 5665 is Chestnut Polished Cobbler, so they don’t have a normal finish, you’ve just removed the top layer. Example of an 84 Chestnut Polished Cobbler strip and restoration I did back in 2018: Phase 0 Decrepitude: Phase 1 Cleaning: Phase 2 First Layer Stripped: This is...- wasmisterfu
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- Forum: Classic Menswear