Shoe Damage Report & Shoe P0rn Central - Part II - Page 1019

Very nice - parisian?

Hoo-man - 8 hrs!!!

Now that's a bloody sole.

Yes.

The waist on your shoe is incredible, it almost looks like a fiddle waist. It sure is narrow.

I have a pair of A.Testoni shoes (certainly not the high quality of your shoes) with the narrowest waist I have ever seen.

Talking about unusually narrow waist....heres another one

Japanese Bespoke

Why, boner.

more photos?

I don't mean to be rude, but those shoes look ridiculous with the giant leap between the sole and heel. 

How's the fit glenjay, I think they must be hugging the arch very nicely

Hooman - pl finish the ones you've started before starting others By the way are you documenting the process?

+ 1 this looks some serious shoe craft

Thank you so much Hoo-man, I am happy to of been of some influence. I do enjoy an elegant looking shoe.


The polishing with champagne thing comes from a Berluti tradition, but it is of no real benefit to the shoe. The alcohol evaporates quicker than water so you can bring up a shine quicker, but the sugars in any drinkable alcohol are not good for the leather.


No offence taken. I bought the shoes on a whim, because I had never seen a pair with that narrow of a waist. I like the plain toe basket weave leather, but the toe is really too long for my taste.


The shoes actually fit very well, but because of the long toe I rarely wear them (which is why the is almost no wear on the sole in the picture).

Beau Brummel actually!

The International Swann Club, founded by Olga Berluti, is named after the character Charles Swann in Marcel Proust's novel Swann's Way published in 1913. The character is a Frenchman not an Englishman, but it is possible that Proust modeled his character after Brummel and made the character French since Proust was French. It may also be that it was simply more common for the more affluent/eccentric of that time to have their shoes polished in champagne (just because they could).

The members of the International Swann Club meet annually to polish their Berluti shoes under the moonlight with champagne.

#8 monk
argyles otc

Wow. I think that is the most beautiful pair of cordovan shell shoes I have ever seen.