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Wow, what a great patina. And to get that kind of shine on an overcast day is amazing. Great shoes.
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Wow, what a great patina. And to get that kind of shine on an overcast day is amazing. Great shoes.
Wearing my Florsheim 93606 PTBs on an overcast San Francisco morning.
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I would love to obtain a pair of these. Are they on the same last as the 93605?
In all my reading, I have yet to hear any discussion of Florsheim using different lasts during that time period. I would expect them to be the same. Perhaps David from the vcleat.com will weigh in on lasts used at that time.
I've been building up my collection / rotation of vintage Florsheims. Here are the highlights...
93605 #8 shell longwing. My favorite.
93606 #8 shell PTB
96624 black calf longwing. At the bottom of the rotation, but I had to have a pair of black longwings.
32601 #8 shell PTB. According to our resident scholar, David at vcleat.com, these are from 1958.
93631 golden harvest calf longwing. Check out the original box.
93230 #8 shell Yuma loafer. Paid more $$ than I would normally shell (ha!) out for vintage shoes, but I rationalized that I might never see this model again in my size.
Thanks for indulging me and my awful iPhone photos.
AHS
That is my understanding, as well.
Once caveat, however, is that I have come across specific pairs that fit differently than others of the exact same model. Twice I purchased longwings in a size 11 C (my typical fit in vintage Florsheims) that felt narrower / smaller, like a 10.5 C or 11 B. One possibility is that they came out of the factory this way: the shoes were (mostly?) handmade and there could be some slight variation on any given pair. I guess another possibility is that the leather tightened over the decades?
Allen Dreadmon, what size are you?
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Edwin Clapp 1940s/50s New Englanders in black.
Like DFW says when the leather dries out pas a certain point you can't get it back. Hence the surface cracking on the vamps But underneath is is sound.
Actually, when the leather gets to that point, the best thing to do is stop wearing them. It may look solid underneath but believe me it's only a matter of degree and continued flexing will only exacerbate the problem until the cracks open up entirely.
Those are a very handsome pair of shoes. Amazing condition for their age.