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  1. VintageZealot

    Dacks and other Canadian shoe brands

    Unfortunately that last image includes all of the coding there is. "4110 58272 21" is the only coding inside, and "the Belmont" label is only featured in the right shoe's heel pad while the left is blank. There's also no writing in the waist of either shoe. I found them in a small thrift store...
  2. VintageZealot

    Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice

    Cross-posting from the Canadian shoes thread: I recently came across these NOS "The Belmont" shoes in a thrift store and they appear to be quite old, I would guess 50s maybe? I've never heard of the Belmont brand and nothing much comes up about it on the internet, I figured if anybody knows...
  3. VintageZealot

    Dacks and other Canadian shoe brands

    It's been awhile since I've posted but I'm still here, and have been meaning to post a few things too. I recently came across these NOS "The Belmont" shoes in a thrift store and they appear to be quite old, I would guess 50s maybe? I've never heard of the Belmont brand and nothing much comes up...
  4. VintageZealot

    Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice

    Those happen to be my exact size... 👀 Did you end up getting them?
  5. VintageZealot

    Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice

    I think I have this same pair in dark brown, though mine are more worn. That green pair is incredible as well! I'd like to find something green in a size I can wear eventually but no luck so far. Oh well, I'll keep looking.
  6. VintageZealot

    Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice

    I never posted the cleaned up pictures of these brown ventilated Wright Arch Preservers so I figured I should do that before ventilated shoe season goes away, and also because I realized how long it's been since I last posted! They look like they are from the 1940s to me but the red tag inside...
  7. VintageZealot

    Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice

    English made brown suede wingtips for Lefcourt. I don't know who made these as there's conflicting information out there, or much about the store Lefcourt other than it was a high end store located at 400 Madison Avenue. Interestingly enough, the green velvet website has the exact same pair of...
  8. VintageZealot

    Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice

    Depending on who you ask they are, though fashion these days seems a bit more random than in the past so it's hard to say for sure. Regardless I'm 23 and most of my pants are pleated, but I almost exclusively wear vintage clothes (hence my username). In my opinion I think the key to pulling off...
  9. VintageZealot

    Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice

    I usually have to buy vintage pants on Etsy or in thrift stores to get a proper higher rise in the style/colours I like, but I have a friend who buys new ones from Red Kap. https://www.redkap.com/men/men-pants/men-dress-pants Aside from the actual dress pant category a lot of the options in the...
  10. VintageZealot

    Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice

    If we met in person, what would the risk of me meeting a fate similar to Dillinger's be...? :laugh: His were Nunn Bush model 369? I've actually seen that model in the 1933 Nunn Bush Spring/Summer catalog. It's very similar to my pair but a wingtip rather than a cap toe, Gotham last too.
  11. VintageZealot

    Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice

    After whitening the 1930s Nunn Bush Gotham white bucks (Nunn Bucks as I've nicknamed them) over the winter they're finally ready to be worn now that it's spring. These were made on the "Gotham" last, which I have seen in advertisements dating between 1933 and 1937. I have also included a 1936...
  12. VintageZealot

    Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice

    Weyenberg Massagic Silk Label wingtips I got for very cheap in a poor eBay listing awhile ago. The listing lacked the age, brand, size, and most details but with the cheap price I figured they were worth the risk. When they arrived I found a faint 295 code for 9.5 B which is normally too small...
  13. VintageZealot

    Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice

    A bit of proof of life from me, I've still been browsing but haven't had much time to post lately. I have a backlog of pictures I've taken but have yet to post, so I'll start with these late 1950s Freeman loafers. I've posted these before but they were very stiff and dry then and I think the...
  14. VintageZealot

    Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice

    If anybody asks, it's just "nubuck"...
  15. VintageZealot

    Dacks and other Canadian shoe brands

    Thank you! They aren't for sale yet but I do plan to sell them eventually once I work out how to sell things online and get that together. Late 50s was my guess for them as well, the style looked late 50s or early 60s but I had seen you say that the S.E. Dack line ended around 1958 so I knew...

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