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I definitely am going to make it known that I am a large footed gentleman with a love of shell cordovan.
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Start cozying up with Susan and Amy now!
I have no problem with logos on the bottom of my soles, as of course, who the hell is going to look at your soles anyway?
I know all those Givenchy track suits can look the same but... I'm 99% sure that's not Lil Wayne 🤣Lil Wayne's moral standing pushed aside (I have no real firm position on whether he is a good or bad person morally) he looks crass.
If you replace 'soles' with 'shin' you'd have the same point attempting to be made. 🤝
I know all those Givenchy track suits can look the same but... I'm 99% sure that's not Lil Wayne 🤣
If I am not mistaken, the shoe maker here doesn't like JR soles because of the logo. Admittedly, I have no problem with logos on the bottom of my soles, as of course, who the hell is going to look at your soles anyway?
Actually according to Queen Weasel Ashley it was never a case of AE not liking the JR logo. They use JR soles on shell but won't offer them as a customization option on other leather models because all the JR soles they get are also stamped with "Genuine Horween Shell Cordovan." If they put those on non-shell shoes sooner or later they'd be accused of misleading consumers about their product.
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Just pay your waste credits and go on with life.Happy Wednesday forum pals. I was cleaning out some old images and stumbled on this one made some years back when I lived in California. A round-up of shell MacNeils for @EdwardWilson. Blue, bourbon, burgundy, brown and natural. It's sad to think of all of the additional material "wasted" to make them.
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I think we have to make a distinction between the phrase gentleman and its use in two separate senses:
Gentleman as exhibiting a certain social prestige based on lifestyle (clothes, money, land, etc).
Gentleman as a moral ideal.
I am not trying to sound too hoighty-toighty but the phrase gentleman has meant both of these things from as far back as Aristotle, and in Aristotle, the second could only follow from the first as a gentleman is capable of doing moral things that a non-gentleman can't because they lack the resources. For instance, being "great of soul" (magnanimous) can only come about if you have the material fortune to back such up.
Nevertheless, I was primarily suggesting that a tag is ungentlemanly as it comes off as bad taste. In that sense, I am directly addressing the aesthetic/social idea, not the moral idea. You can be Plato himself and I'd say the move lacks taste.
As for the Givenchy track suit situation: Here the term asshole doesn't make a moral appraisal, either. Lil Wayne's moral standing pushed aside (I have no real firm position on whether he is a good or bad person morally) he looks crass. I know some people live for looking crass, but I think it is reasonable to call that look out as being low-brow and gross. It's an aesthetic judgement, and God knows those aren't absolute, but it's worth making.
I don’t really want to go to an opera; the fire might be more interestingDisagree. This is the appropriate footwear for a runaway groom. Or, on the off-chance that there's a fire in the theater during an opera. Don't underestimate the size of either of those markets.