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post #1 of 165
3/16/11 at 4:39pm
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Sorry for the bad quality photos, I didn't have so much time for them: the customer was practically at the door...
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post #2 of 165
3/16/11 at 4:40pm
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post #3 of 165
3/16/11 at 4:48pm
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post #4 of 165
3/16/11 at 4:51pm
Is the interior lined with tiger labia?
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post #5 of 165
3/16/11 at 4:52pm
That's not too cool.
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post #6 of 165
3/16/11 at 4:53pm
I have a pair of elephant skin cowboy boots that I bought probably 30 years ago. Sadly, my feet have kept growing and they no longer fit me.
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post #7 of 165
3/16/11 at 4:56pm
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Originally Posted by i10casual View Post
That's not too cool.

Why? - I assume Marcel obtained the elephant hide legally under international law (forget what its called - CITES or something).
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post #8 of 165
3/16/11 at 4:58pm
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Originally Posted by Mark from Plano View Post
I have a pair of elephant skin cowboy boots that I bought probably 30 years ago. Sadly, my feet have kept growing and they no longer fit me.

What's your size?
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post #9 of 165
3/16/11 at 4:59pm
I can think of no better purpose in life for a cow to end up as a pair of shoes. Horses ar OK too (there are too many in Nevada). However, I really am opposed to lizard and many of the other exotic skin shoes. The elephant may have come from a two-bit shithole like Zimbabwa (formally the great country of Rhodesia), and lizard is probably tegu or monitor captured with no though to the impact on the lizard populations.
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post #10 of 165
3/16/11 at 5:07pm
Not sure I'm feeling this as a wholecut. It would probably work as a chucka of sorts. Perhaps with a crepe sole. Excellent workmanship (as ever) anyhow. @PTWilliams: couldn't the skin have come from a country where elephants are routinely used as beasts of burden?
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post #11 of 165
3/16/11 at 5:08pm
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Originally Posted by barims View Post
What's your size?

Now? 11.5 D (US)
Then? Don't remember. Probably 10.5 D (US)
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post #12 of 165
3/16/11 at 5:09pm
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Originally Posted by PTWilliams View Post
I can think of no better purpose in life for a cow to end up as a pair of shoes. Horses ar OK too (there are too many in Nevada). However, I really am opposed to lizard and many of the other exotic skin shoes. The elephant may have come from a two-bit shithole like Zimbabwa (formally the great country of Rhodesia), and lizard is probably tegu or monitor captured with no though to the impact on the lizard populations.

Yes, cows and horses serve no useful purpose, unlike lizards

Also, nice bit about "Rhodesia"
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post #13 of 165
3/16/11 at 5:12pm
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Originally Posted by radicaldog View Post
Not sure I'm feeling this as a wholecut. It would probably work as a chucka of sorts. Perhaps with a crepe sole. Excellent workmanship (as ever) anyhow.

@PTWilliams: couldn't the skin have come from a country where elephants are routinely used as beasts of burden?

Yes, in that case I have no problem with it.
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post #14 of 165
3/16/11 at 5:16pm
Aside from human skin, I can't think of a single leather that would make me less comfortable than elephant.
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post #15 of 165
3/16/11 at 5:20pm
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Originally Posted by gladhands View Post
Aside from human skin, I can't think of a single leather that would make me less comfortable than elephant.

Baby seal? Unicorn? House cat? Sperm whale?


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