***The official Alden thread *** - Page 2742

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Originally Posted by FrankCowperwood 

^Appreciate that, Bakes. I enjoy seeing people's photos, so I want to make sure I'm posting myself. Also trying to work on the photo quality. The above is not a prime effort, as I note it is hard to actually see the boots.

A family photo is a good idea, and there's plenty of Alden that is suitable for this thread. Will have to wait until the wife is out of the house so she doesn't see all the shoes together...

Amen.  Not sure mine knows the extent to my collection (not that it rivals most of this thread's followers).

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Originally Posted by FrankCowperwood 

^Appreciate that, Bakes. I enjoy seeing people's photos, so I want to make sure I'm posting myself. Also trying to work on the photo quality. The above is not a prime effort, as I note it is hard to actually see the boots.

A family photo is a good idea, and there's plenty of Alden that is suitable for this thread. Will have to wait until the wife is out of the house so she doesn't see all the shoes together...

I "LOL"ed @ this.

I'm sure that she is in someway thankful to have such a well dressed husband though.

Perhaps CTYGGG can offer a tutorial on shoe photography for the rest of us.

While the boots are hard to see, that is to be expected when you capture the whole outfit.

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Originally Posted by ReppTiePrepster 

Amen.  Not sure mine knows the extent to my collection (not that it rivals most of this thread's followers).

I'm confident you'll get there, just give it time.

Sometimes I forget how peculiar our habit is.  Usually it's the wife who has to hide the expensive new shoes from the husband.  My sisters think it is really weird that I post pics of my shoes on the web for others to compliment.  They think its even weirder that I have an Uncle Mac (online that is, we have an "Uncle Mac" IRL as well.  Heck, they even think its weird that I have a website for discussing shoes.  They called it my "Shoe Blog".

I know a guy who bought a really expensive shotgun and hid it from his wife for about 6 months.  Used to work with a guy who had a separate secret bank account for gambling activities.  We all have our vices, shoes are much healthier than others.

Wearing my brand new Alden Captoe Shell Color 8 with commando soles for the snow today.  Honestly, my right foot is killing me where the new leather is rubbing against my ankle bone, but I assume time will heal everything.

Thanks to Cathy at Alden DC for once again sending me two pairs for size comparison.  Loved the cigar shell more, but the 11.5E just fits better. I have four other Aldens in cigar, so one color 8 seemed the way to go.

To develop the topic of belts - I have navy suede LWB coming from Leffot (), but I'm not sure what would be a good belt to pair with them. I guess it's not necessary to limit myself to navy belts (which are rather rare AFAIK), but what else, dark brown, tan?

You can have a belt MTO.  I have a few MTO belts.  They're really no more expensive than anywhere else.  You can do shell, suede, CXL, etc.

Update:

Sent Alden a berating email late last night. They promptly replied by trying my phone early this morning. I was getting ready for work and missed the calls this morning, but they called again @lunch for me (PST). I appreciate their perseverance in trying to reach me by phone - old-school customer service.

The guy on the phone profusely apologized for returning back dirty boots, and admitted that was an oversight. The box situation he said was standard practice for shipping between dealers and the factory. Thinking J. Gilbert dropped the ball here.

I was offered either one of the small leather accessories or shoe trees, plus some paste wax and an original box and shoe bags. I took the trees.

Alden redeemed themselves in my eyes for their prompt customer service in rectifying the situation and abating my dissatisfaction. They will get my business again. Back on Alden-wagon, lol.

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Originally Posted by neutrino 

To develop the topic of belts - I have navy suede LWB coming from Leffot (), but I'm not sure what would be a good belt to pair with them. I guess it's not necessary to limit myself to navy belts (which are rather rare AFAIK), but what else, dark brown, tan?

I have and love the blue suede chukkas and feel they get a bye on the belt-shall-match-the-shoes guideline.  So I wear brown, needlepoint, or my British racing green bridle belt from Equus.  It's another "color" but not the same, and that seems to work.  Should you want to match, however, Equus does have a good looking blue bridle leather.  Charlie is a pleasure to deal with and his craftsmanship is top notch.  Highly recommended.  

Wow.  They're really just cigar, right?  I covet.