Carmina Shoes - Definitive Thread (reviews, advice, sizing, etc...) - official thread.

[Mr. Six]

The delivered boots are nice, but not what I was expecting. I'll be pretty disappointed if they really look more like saddle than cognac.

(I understand that shades of shell vary, but that seems like a fairly significant variance.)

 

[frezon]

They are definitely lighter than the cognac shell from Epaulet, but the same colour as the cognac balmoral boots from SkoAB. The box says cognac shell cordovan.

I was so excited when I received mine that I did not even think about the ressemblance to the original Horween pics. They are really not the same colour.

 

[Gerry Nelson]

They do look like Saddle, which will be really really disappointing to me as I had expected the cognac as I already have the almost same boot from Carmina in Saddle Shell... but as said above I will reserve judgment until i see them since I also am waiting the additional 3 weeks....

I've got the Carmina saddle shell wingtip boot above and these C&J Conistons which are calf but a similar lightness to the saddle shell:



That's why I wanted something darker but in a similar style.

I thought the boot below (Nick Horween's Carmina Cognac Shell Boot) was what we were aiming for with this MTO but I don't know if anyone made that clear to Carmina:

 

[Frank the sheep]

That anyone would be me and I made it 100% clear since I put that exact pic in the order sheet.

 

[NAMOR]



Pics of the "jumper boot" MTO. I think they look great!

http://www.skoaktiebolaget.se/news/carmina-made-order-boots

this is saddle shell

 

[frezon]

I have them right before me and believe me they are beautiful, but it's not what we signed up for. Given the material used I would accept minor deviations, but this is a completely different colour.

 

[djoser]

Judging from the pictures I was also expecting something much darker.

 

[Roguls]

If there is a pair that is 9.5 UK that somebody ordered and wants to sell because it's not the color they wanted, pm me.

 

[NAMOR]



I have them right before me and believe me they are beautiful, but it's not what we signed up for. Given the material used I would accept minor deviations, but this is a completely different colour.

could you post pics?

 

[stevent]

Here is a saddle shell sample that Mike posted:
http://www.styleforum.net/t/277505/epaulet-x-carmina-mto/400_80#post_5134104

Looks pretty damn close to how the boot turned out

 

[frezon]

It is in the middle of the night here, but I sure can tomorrow

 

[frezon]

Here is a saddle shell sample that Mike posted:
http://www.styleforum.net/t/277505/epaulet-x-carmina-mto/400_80#post_5134104

Looks pretty damn close to how the boot turned out

Yes, more or less that with black stitching.

 

[Frank the sheep]

Found these pics on google when i wrote saddle shell cordovan. Both Carmina boots, both saddle but very different. One is what i would call cognac.

 

[NAMOR]

the top pair is saddle shell (sf'ers), the bottom pair is brown calf

the oscar saddle shell boot looks nice nonetheless

 

[Calikid]

I agree the boot looks really nice but if we ordered cognac and these are in fact Saddle what are we going to do?