Allen Edmonds Appreciation Thread 2020 - News, Pictures, Clothing, Accessories, etc.

[Coffandcig]

anybody got any thoughts on what colors will be in the TS

Green is the only color that matters.

 

[vdubiv]

I'm curious to see what colours might be offered in the sneakers. Would it be worth it to use rare shell? Or stick to the basics, colour 8, black, and brown?

I think the answer to this is relative to the design of the shoe, if the shoe is basic, basic color's, if the shoe is amazing rare options

 

[madhat]

Green is the only color that matters.

OLIVE green is the only green that matters.

 

[Thrift Couture]

I think the answer to this is relative to the design of the shoe, if the shoe is basic, basic color's, if the shoe is amazing rare options

Epaulet nailed the shell cordovan sneaker game.

 

[Coffandcig]

That was a dig at me because I can’t stand the word chino. Sounds to me like a woman’s garment. But I have and wear khakis in different non brown colors.

Khaki rhymes with tacky and is a color not a style of pant.

 

[audog]

Khaki rhymes with tacky and is a color not a style of pant.

Correct! Here is an article on the pants and their origin(s)

Style Staples: A Man's Guide to Khakis

Khakis have the potential to be both handsome and functional, as long as you pick the right style and wear them well.

www.artofmanliness.com

 

[jpm1]

Alden 6841 Cigar Shell Cordovan Full Strap Loafer on the Aberdeen Last. Circa 2015

 

[vdubiv]

Epaulet nailed the shell cordovan sneaker game.

Did not know this, just googled it, and images look like the shoe is too shiny for a sneaker, at least for my personal taste

 

[Shoenut]

Khaki rhymes with tacky and is a color not a style of pant.

Correct! Here is an article on the pants and their origin(s)

Style Staples: A Man's Guide to Khakis

Khakis have the potential to be both handsome and functional, as long as you pick the right style and wear them well.

www.artofmanliness.com

Does it matter? I won't wear Chino's but have bought lots of khakis as advertised. The shoe game is filled with misnomers. For instance, AE continually will refer to Oxford shoes as a Bamoral. Marketing plays fast and loose with the truth and I am ok with that.

 

[Shoenut]

just thinking out loud here, but someone must have answered the questions in the surveys sent out in such a way as to give AE the idea to make these "sneakers"

The entire market is shifting toward this thing called a dress sneaker. People come into fine dress stores and ask them. A lot of small makers have been making calf versions for years. Magnanni, John Lobb, Brunello Cucinelli, just to name a few. For the record, John Lobb has some utter sneaker wrecks.

 

[Shoenut]

I'm curious to see what colours might be offered in the sneakers. Would it be worth it to use rare shell? Or stick to the basics, colour 8, black, and brown?

A shell sneaker in gunmetal would be acceptable. Maybe even awesome if I like the pattern.

 

[Shoenut]

Khaki rhymes with tacky and is a color not a style of pant.

You have never really seen my daily dress. Just the pants and shoes. The rest is usually a total mess. So yeah, I embrace tacky.

 

[vdubiv]

The entire market is shifting toward this thing called a dress sneaker. People come into fine dress stores and ask them. A lot of small makers have been making calf versions for years. Magnanni, John Lobb, Brunello Cucinelli, just to name a few. For the record, John Lobb has some utter sneaker wrecks.

I see guys around the office where shoes similar to the canal street's AE makes.
Maybe dress sneaker isn't a good description, and I look those shoes as a more "mature shoe" the middle road between wearing stan smith's to work with your suit (which I have seen out here in Italy on more than one occasion) and buying actual "dress shoes"

 

[vdubiv]

You have never really seen my daily dress. Just the pants and shoes. The rest is usually a total mess. So yeah, I embrace tacky.

wear what you are comfortable in, for work I like to rock a "polo" style shirt and some "chinos" I feel like people are to judgmental and put too much emphasis on other peoples fashion choices. We all aren't in the same tax bracket and can't afford the same luxuries

 

[CommanderMcBragg]

Men--

What have I done?

I have no room in my closet for more shoes, but the one addition I've been willing to make an exception for is a suede, all-weather boot that I can wear to the office on rainy days. For the better part of this past week, I have been refreshing an AE page on a certain perfect sale-item bathing beauty of a boot that has been sold out in my size, maddeningly, and I have diminishing faith that a pop-back return will present itself at this juncture.

At any rate, I woke up at 6:00 this morning and dutifully checked for my white whale suede boot. No luck as usual, but "ADDITIONAL 30% OFF OF SALE APPLIED IN CART" caught my eye.

Wutttt...?

I was half-awake, but I quickly scanned these additional 30% sale items in my size. A $375 suede Strand, 1st quality, for $100...? A $425 Hamilton--or what I consider a "hi-top dress shoe"--for $175...? I didn't really think about it, but I reacted like a sledgehammer on the add-to-cart button and I purchased the two. One thing I do not need is another Strand, and in fact, I just sold an excellent Strand weave on the popular auction site because I'm so Strand-heavy.

...but $100 for a 1st quality suede Strand? That's practically free. Right?

The problem is that I wear a D width in everything...but the 65 last, where I bump up to an E. Kind of like how I have been "allergic" to penicillin my whole life but nobody remembers what happens or when I took it, I can't recall actually trying a D width in the 65 last. Sometimes when wearing a thinner sock with one of my E width Strand or McAllister, I would not go so far as to qualify the experience as a full spelunk, but I am conscious of the roominess. If in fact these two 65-lasted, final sale items are too snug in the D width, can they be returned? I suppose at these prices I can flip them on the popular auction site and get my $$ back.