Dimitri Bottier Demi-mesure shoes

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by johninla

Those are beautiful shoes. I have looked at the CJ Paris site and they have a beatiful selection. Maybe you can tell me, why is CJ Paris so much different than CJ US?
Congrats on the shoes.
John
The Paris branch, like many other English shops in Paris, have a more extensive and flamboyant selection of goods than their London counterparts. The designs are also more dramatic than the English ones.

 

[Demeter]

Very striking shoes!

I love the leather.

 

[whnay.]

Awesome

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

The Paris branch, like many other English shops in Paris, have a more extensive and flamboyant selection of goods than their London counterparts. The designs are also more dramatic than the English ones.
The Dimitri Bottier shoes are really a sort of British French hybrid. He is much more conservative than a Corthay or Aubercy which both are a bit out there for my taste. He went through some shoes that he was working on and pointed out what he likes about some of the British characteristics and what characteristics of some of the more French/Italian styled shoes he thought went too far. I have not seen many of the Paris Lobb bespoke shoes, but from what I have seen, the sensibility is very similar.

 

[sho'nuff]

im not sure if you know that much about aubercy or corthay, but if corthay still makes their rtw , do you know the price range for them?
also what is the price range for aubercy bespoke? thanks.

 

[itsstillmatt]

I did not even think of having any made by Aubercy as to my eye they are a little extreme. Corthay still makes RTW, and IIRC they run around 800 eu. Bespoke shoes in Paris seem to start around 2500 eu and go up quickly from there.

 

[sho'nuff]

thanks. for 800 euro that is not bad for the corthay.
i see the really glazed-antiqued, slender looking shoes on corthay's website, not sure if that is their rtw or their bespoke, but if it is their rtw, i wonder if they will take USA phone orders?

 

[luk-cha]

Originally Posted by diorshoe

thanks. for 800 euro that is not bad for the corthay.
i see the really glazed-antiqued, slender looking shoes on corthay's website, not sure if that is their rtw or their bespoke, but if it is their rtw, i wonder if they will take USA phone orders?

from what know corthay dont do phone orders, or at least not when i asked anyhow!

also great shoes iammat

well worth it!

 

[Dragon]

I like the simple color you chose, and the idea of having the shoes develop their own patina.

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by iammatt

The Dimitri Bottier shoes are really a sort of British French hybrid. He is much more conservative than a Corthay or Aubercy which both are a bit out there for my taste. He went through some shoes that he was working on and pointed out what he likes about some of the British characteristics and what characteristics of some of the more French/Italian styled shoes he thought went too far. I have not seen many of the Paris Lobb bespoke shoes, but from what I have seen, the sensibility is very similar.
Not quite as French as say, Marc Guyot although definitely an admixture of the Anglo and the Gallic, similar to Old England Paris or the former Dunhill Paris at the Rue de la Paix.

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by iammatt

I did not even think of having any made by Aubercy as to my eye they are a little extreme. Corthay still makes RTW, and IIRC they run around 800 eu. Bespoke shoes in Paris seem to start around 2500 eu and go up quickly from there.
Have you tried Massaro? I think they also do men's shoes in addition to the couture things.

 

[RJman]

Aubercy bespoke starts at 3000 or 3250 euros.

The dunheel Heritage Boutique bespoke shoes were almost certainly made by a company called Deuce, which still offers bespoke. They make mostly leather game sets. Their boutique is on rue d'Aboukir; I believe they have a website but do not feature their shoes on it.

The Corthay RTW is elegantly streamlined and chisel-toed. Whether or not they take phone orders, I would advise against it since I think it highly advisable to see how one's foot fits their shoes. It's an elongated, highly stylized last.

I've never seen men's Massaro shoes. The man is in his 80s, and while there is at least one other bespoke (women's) shoemaker in Paris working into his tenth or eleventh decade, I daresay neither may be taking many new clients.

Not sure what LabelRoi (<<l'etiquette, c'est moi>>) means about Old England Paris, which sells no shoes under its own name but rather Green, Lobb, Tod's, Purdey (C&J) and Corthay, and which is in any case "So British" (eponymously, given their vanity book) they are French.

 

[Manton]

I heard from a reliable source that M. Gomez can only do demi-measure up through size 10.5. Otherwise, one must shell out of for the full treatment.

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by Manton

I heard from a reliable source that M. Gomez can only do demi-measure up through size 10.5 Otherwise, one must shell out of for the full treatment.
What, is he too lazy to make a few stock lasts in a larger size?

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by RJman

I've never seen men's Massaro shoes. The man is in his 80s, and while there is at least one other bespoke (women's) shoemaker in Paris working into his tenth or eleventh decade, I daresay neither may be taking many new clients.

Not sure what LabelRoi (<<l'etiquette, c'est moi>>) means about Old England Paris, which sells no shoes under its own name but rather Green, Lobb, Tod's, Purdey (C&J) and Corthay, and which is in any case "So British" (eponymously, given their vanity book) they are French.
I have read that Massaro is passing his trade down onto someone which hopefully is the case.

I was referencing the distinctly Gallic twist of Anglomania the Parisian branches had. Another interesting branch would be the late Sulka Paris. Even Chrysler had a Paris branch in the '50s & '60s with their collaboration with SIMCA and thusly FACEL.