RL Sale Begins May 15th - Page 18

The two button is. I don't see why the 3 button wouldn't be?

Yes, indeed; 30+20.

My SA in palo alto wasn't able to order blazers in my size... and pushed me to another style. sleezy SA... anyway, is Tim in Chicago?

Tim is NYC.

Anyone like the Stanton Oxford? Do they look "old" for a 26-30 guy?

i wonder if they still will get those polo darltons shell cordovans at around 400 dollars again. that was the bomb

stantons are nice. they have an EG type last. those are great for a guy any age.

Mine are on their way. Props to TCN for hooking me up. Now, if only I could afford them...

Wasn't I just looking at pics of your bespoke shoes???

You know, I was thinking about this yesterday. In past month, I've bought, I believe, four pairs of shoes--three of them C&J for Polo. Total cost: $1,300, give or take. That's basically a pair of Scaforas. So, am I better off with those four pairs than one pair of bespoke? I really don't know. It's a question that's been weighing on my mind a lot. But part of the point is, these impulse, feeding-frenzy buys do add up.

Secondarily, and I try to explain this to my wife (and to Congress) all the time. It does not follow that because you "afforded" one thing--a pair of bespoke shoes, say--that therefore you can now "afford" some other expensive thing. Unless your funds are practically unlimited, it's far more likely that the reverse is true--I can't afford this pair of shoes now because I "afforded" that last pair. Or those three others since the beginning of April. Or whatever. Anyway.

Stantons are $255 @ YOOX (link on top of this page).

The Stanton quarter brogue?

semi, theres no broguing on the quarters.

Or maybe a pef cap plus

Understood. Just lobbing grenades for a reaction. I'm fairly new to the shoe sickness, so my wife is fairly new to having to deal with me thinking that every good deal I see is the last good deal that will ever come along. I've done the same thing. The RL / C&J Sheldon from GVH, I just grabbed the black Grants (which might go back), a new pair of shell wingtips from the after Christmas sale at BB still in the box, and I think I 'need' the Tellmans from Yoox. That starts to add up. And I truly do appreciate the distinction between 'can I afford this' / 'can I get the money to make this happen' / 'do I really need to do this' / etc... Unfortunatlely the part of me that thinks I have way more feet than I actually do is winning out more times than not right now.

So, it's a semi-brogue because it has less broguing than a quarter brogue? I'm not sure the math on that adds up...