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    Brown in town

    Brown suits - small-towns only, if you're wearing one up-town you're probably an architect, or Gilbert and George. Black for business-formal isn't without objective reason; with charcoal/navy suiting brown shoes/belts contrast and form an additional level of visual detail, black fades into the...
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    How old are your oldest shoes that are in use?

    More direct to the OPQ: Barker monks (apparently seconds) bought in 2010, worn heavily for ~3 years & 3 resoles - still lingering (in OK condition) in the closet.
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    How old are your oldest shoes that are in use?

    Much like cars you really need to think about age, mileage and maintenance record.. If you'require a house-car-office type guy with 3+ pairs of tree'd & polished shoes then just about any decent shoes will last year. If you hammer miles of pavement in all weather and never touch the shoe...
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    The Uniqlo Thread

    You could easily swing and miss; think of the dad out of Frasier (pleated chinos, "classic fit" shirt and boaties) and do the opposite. Finer, smaller check flannels, neat fit and maybe avoid red-based colour ways. Over dark denim & boots would be stock; chinos starts to err into a subjective...
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    LOAKE APPRECIATION THREAD

    FYI UK members. A well known discount clothing/homeware store (you know the one...) is currently running a fair stock of Loake shoes. I yesterday procured a pair of Aldwychs in black for less than £80. Most pleased; not going to get a half-decent pair of office slippers for less than that!
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    Leather Quality and Properties

    So how old is an optimum calf? Are we looking at some happy mid-point where the leather is both flawless and soft but has had some opportunity to fill-outhank and toughen? (N.B. this comes back to my former theme. There's some controvery in the UK about male dairy cows getting bolted, and sent...
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    Leather Quality and Properties

    "from an earlier era when animals were not forced (chemically) to weight and market." Is anyone out there pitching their hides as coming from (say) organic milk herds (ie old, clean, grass-fed, open-field cattle?) I'd expect this would make good press in the premium goods market. In Europe at...
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    Shoe Trees: How Important Are They?

    Having kicked off wet office shoes after a sodden ( rain & beer) Friday PM and only gone looking for them two days later I can attest that leather soled shoes are capable of some quite extraordinary contortions. Trees would have helped no end.
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    Leather Quality and Properties

     You'll be hard pressed to find a leather lined mountain boot;it's all a weird unwoven textile (soft but seemingly indestructible) over padding of various thicknesses. Looking at a couple of examples the "advertised thickness" seems representative of the greatest monolithic thickness. I...
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    Leather Quality and Properties

    Quote: The old pair of Scarpa SL's I've got were spec'd as 3.2mm; before c.2010 this was the fairly stiff, but still walkable, boot that sat between the soft valley boots and full blown, rigid mountaineering boots. Needless to say the uppers are still solid a couple of vibram soles later...
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    How consistent must one really be in terms of formality when wearing a suit?

    "ultimately it's a matter of good aesthetic judgment." This sentiment is sound; above a certain threshold business wear is something of a free for all these days. In any business setting no one would think less of wingtips than oxfords, nor woul a pale blue be less than a white shirt; it's...
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