Japanese Shoes: Bespoke & RTW Super Thread

[chogall]

...as an aside: what's the Japanese pronunciation for brogues? Broggu?

プローグ

bu roo gu

 

[FlyingMonkey]

プローグ

bu roo gu

I know it's a long 'o', but f you write it bu-roo-gu, it makes it sound like it is pronounced like the 'oo' in kangaroo, which it isn't, it's a long natural 'o'. So it's more like 'bu-roh-gu'...

 

[nutcracker]



I know it's a long 'o', but f you write it bu-roo-gu, it makes it sound like it is pronounced like the 'oo' in kangaroo, which it isn't, it's a long natural 'o'. So it's more like 'bu-roh-gu'...

yeah BU-ROH~GU

Derby: DAH-BEE

btw

The August issue of MEN'S EX is out today (available via Zinio etc...), with a special booklet/catalog of Japanese RTW shoe brands

 

[chogall]

I know it's a long 'o', but f you write it bu-roo-gu, it makes it sound like it is pronounced like the 'oo' in kangaroo, which it isn't, it's a long natural 'o'. So it's more like 'bu-roh-gu'...

Thank you for the correction. Self-taught half ass Japanese reading can only last so far lol.

 

[bozzkeren]

yeah BU-ROH~GU

Derby: DAH-BEE

btw

The August issue of MEN'S EX is out today (available via Zinio etc...), with a special booklet/catalog of Japanese RTW shoe brands

does this means scanlation on the way??

 

[nutcracker]



Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

does this means scanlation on the way?? 

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

That booklet is 19 pages long.... let me think about it...

 

[bozzkeren]

i should get one copy of that for my night reading

 

[nutcracker]



il Vagabondo by Motoji Suga His workshop based in nishinomiya-city, hyogo japan. http://bloom.ko-co.jp/e205685.html http://www.showaen-life.com/dandyism.

Would love to see some close up pics of Suga-san's shoes.... Nishinomiya City is adjacent to Kobe City. One day I should make a shoe pilgrimage to the Kansai area....

 

[Alter]

I sometimes go to that area of Kobe...if I do I will drop by and ask if I can take some pics.

 

[FlyingMonkey]

I'm there about once a month for work reasons, and Nishinomiya is exactly where I have to go... I may pop in in September. There's also an apparently very good Italian-trained tailor I want to visit in Kobe.

 

[VRaivio]

We could kickstart nutcracker's Men's Ex/Last/Leon/whathaveyou translation project. I would pitch in as Japanese style magazines seem to be all about the content and helping others, while the likes of GQ and Men's Health are filled with bits, pieces and ads shoddily disguised as articles. Then again, I can't read Kanji so I may just as wrong about these *** mags.

 

[nutcracker]



I'm there about once a month for work reasons, and Nishinomiya is exactly where I have to go... I may pop in in September. There's also an apparently very good Italian-trained tailor I want to visit in Kobe.

Very nice!!

Kind of amazing to see so many artisans coming out from Kobe....it`s really not a big city...
Col and Tailor Ishida (tailors), Bellago (leather goods), Spigola, Il Quadrifoglio (shoes), and a lot more...

 

[nutcracker]



We could kickstart nutcracker's Men's Ex/Last/Leon/whathaveyou translation project. I would pitch in as Japanese style magazines seem to be all about the content and helping others, while the likes of GQ and Men's Health are filled with bits, pieces and ads shoddily disguised as articles. Then again, I can't read Kanji so I may just as wrong about these *** mags.

Honestly, I find the recent issues a bit lackluster in terms of shoe-stuffs.
Have you seen the new Scansnap SV600? Amazing stuff, but apparently delayed `til Fall. Once I get hold of that, I can start scanning my old issues of LAST (I have 2 complete sets, don`t ask me why) without taking them apart

GQ Japan isn`t so bad either..... the articles are more in line with LEON/MEN`S EX than the US-version GQ...

 

[chogall]



Honestly, I find the recent issues a bit lackluster in terms of shoe-stuffs.
Have you seen the new Scansnap SV600? Amazing stuff, but apparently delayed `til Fall. Once I get hold of that, I can start scanning my old issues of LAST (I have 2 complete sets, don`t ask me why) without taking them apart

GQ Japan isn`t so bad either..... the articles are more in line with LEON/MEN`S EX than the US-version GQ...

old issues of Last!!!

p.s., the most interesting things nowadays in men's ex is the corporate worker's profile. its the improved version of financial times' what people wear on the street column.

 

[clee1982]



Scansnap SV600

Now we're talking, though I thought there had been something like that for a while, just not for consumer in the past