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Had a look into the Ralph Lauren store in London and met Gary in the shoe department. Gary is one of two hand-stitch (skin-stitch) experts at Edward Green and was giving a demonstration about the Art of hand-stitched vamps.
He has been working for the company some 18 years and has stitched in that time thousands of Dover vamps. Without a doubt, he must be the world champion in this particular field. Furthermore, demonstrations have taken him all round the world to Europe, America and Japan. Yes, he was the guy, a few months back, sitting in the shop window of Kos in New York; stitching happily. Of course in Japan, where every apron-fronted shoe is a "Dover", he is known as the Dover-Man.
He happily answered yours truly all sort of questions about shoemaking in general and Edward Green in particular.
He has been working for the company some 18 years and has stitched in that time thousands of Dover vamps. Without a doubt, he must be the world champion in this particular field. Furthermore, demonstrations have taken him all round the world to Europe, America and Japan. Yes, he was the guy, a few months back, sitting in the shop window of Kos in New York; stitching happily. Of course in Japan, where every apron-fronted shoe is a "Dover", he is known as the Dover-Man.
He happily answered yours truly all sort of questions about shoemaking in general and Edward Green in particular.