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Promised some pics of the RLPL Brendon aka EG Halifax - double-soled on the 89 last in dark oak:

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Question for EG Newbie:

If I buy just one EG shoe, which model/color should it be? And where (in the U.S. or via mail order to U.S.) can I buy said shoe in 9.5/10E?

Thanks in advance!!
 

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Question for EG Newbie:

If I buy just one EG shoe, which model/color should it be?  And where (in the U.S. or via mail order to U.S.) can I buy said shoe in 9.5/10E?

Thanks in advance!!


Left or right?
 

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Har har!
 

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Thanks. I really like them. The lack of a heel piece really changes the look, and even though they are both norwegers, the toes are so different that they don't really look that related.
IMG_5203.jpg

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I like both and would gladly own bowth - I only own the EG version. I will admit, much to my good friend Fritzl's dismay, I think the EG version more refined. I had to only one - it would be the EG version.
 

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I like both and would gladly own bowth - I only own the EG version. I will admit, much to my good friend Fritzl's dismay, I think the EG version more refined. I had to only one - it would be the EG version.


it's not to my dismay - au contraire. a lot depends on the last, imo. jb figured out the best fitting lasts for him in both brands hence his choices, i assume. afaik, the vass version is closer to the original concept and distinctive features. vox did a great write up about the heritage of the norvegian style. i'm afraid, it went down the penny though.
 

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Those Vass norwegers are ******* insane
 

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i assume. afaik, the vass version is closer to the original concept and distinctive features.


Surely, the original version of a Norwegian must come from Norway. Here is Jan Petter Myrhe's version (the only Norwegian shoemaker myself, or any other member of this forum, knows). His version is much closer to Edward Green than Vass. He utilizes a heel counter and avoids the clunky high-walled last as well as the raw turned-up leather edges, which dominate the Austro/Hungarian version. Myrhe being Norwegian, must count for something.

http://www.styleforum.net/t/12282/let-me-introduce-myself-j-p-myhre-bespoke-shoemaker#post_141937

It might be, the Austro/Hungarian version is nothing but a bastardisation and simplification of the Norwegian original. It might be in old Norway they were two different versions around, one for the peasants and one for smart town folks.

Only a Norwegian shoe historian can tell us what the distinctive features of a Norwegian shoe are.
 

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I like both and would gladly own bowth - I only own the EG version. I will admit, much to my good friend Fritzl's dismay, I think the EG version more refined. I had to only one - it would be the EG version.

+1

EG's version with Vass' reverse welt construction would be perfect.
 
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Preferences preferences.  Vass's rendition is distinctively Hungrian that's for sure. 
EG is sleeker and looks more like Norwegian according to Bengal's link to that Norwegian bespoke maker.
I just prefer EG's rendition more.  :)


sure. vass' rendition is to be close to the original which is a mocassin like style as stated in vox's write up, nothing else. actually, it depends on the last, not? look out for gdl203's and we can talk again.

nothing austrian-hungarian about the norweger. afaik, it initally found his way in our terroir as a boot, a working boot and got urbanized. i'll check that, mebbe.
 

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