Enzo Bonafe Handmade Shoes.

[peppercorn78]



To go honest. The one species on earth, in greatest need of culling.
Are **** sapiens.

Well, this does happen constantly.

 

[bamboo]

This seems timely:
http://www.humanleather.co.uk/humanleathershoes.html

This is very shocking to say the least. This is definitely beyond my own fuzzy line of judgement.

 

[laufer]

Some members of this forum consider all animals equal but some to be more equal than the others. This is ridicuoulus, elephants are vulnerable but not endengared. To us elephant may be intelligent and beautiful but to some African villagers elephants are no better than what wolves are to some American or Canadian rancher.
As far as I am concern if some westerner wants to buy elephant skin for shoes and some African wants to sell legally harvested elephant, no one should interfere.
Not to call out anyone on this forum but some "first world" citizens behave as moral imperialist. I am trying to imagine what would be a reaction if some one from sub-Saharan Africa demanded that Europeans tear down ski resorts and recreate a habitant for brown bear.

 

[wklq76a]



Wait, African elephants are not endangered?  I think that might be one of those alternative facts we are hearing about these days.  I agree fully with Leaves, I have a hard time wrapping my head around supporting the use of skins of such an intelligent animal and one that is threatened at that.  I also think that whether or not the skins are "legally sourced" or not, there is a lot motivation where money is concerned to make things legal that otherwise should not be.  Anyway, that doesn't mean I think you're a bad person for wearing elephant but it's not for me.  I agree there is an arbitrariness in what we each find acceptable and do not. 

Without speaking to any of the other points you're making, the fact that African elephants are not endangered is absolutely not an "alternative fact". Asian elephants, however, are endangered.

 

[TtownMD]

Wtf is all I can say regarding that link posted in last post.

 

[Hermitize]

Ttown,

Ha. I mean no offense but can we back to non-creepy normal shoe shizz

 

[TtownMD]

Hermitize enjoy

 

[Hermitize]

Geez. THANK YOU! I keep dreaming about an EB Button boot. Waiting to see if Skoak will have a stock model

 

[budapest12]

Some members of this forum consider all animals equal but some to be more equal than the others. This is ridicuoulus, elephants are vulnerable but not endengared. To us elephant may be intelligent and beautiful but to some African villagers elephants are no better than what wolves are to some American or Canadian rancher.
As far as I am concern if some westerner wants to buy elephant skin for shoes and some African wants to sell legally harvested elephant, no one should interfere.
Not to call out anyone on this forum but some "first world" citizens behave as moral imperialist. I am trying to imagine what would be a reaction if some one from sub-Saharan Africa demanded that Europeans tear down ski resorts and recreate a habitant for brown bear.

You're equating this to Orwell? Ok.

 

[tkliebert]

Maiden voyage for the color 4 Balway boots.


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[CanadaCal]

Killer shade there! Congrats

 

[youtubs]

I had planned to get a Button Boot with Peccary this year after seeing some of the great makeups last year. I recently saw a picture of some nice shoes in navy shell on the Solegarb Instagram and decided I'd check in and see if he had any navy Peccary to go with it. He did! So, I decided to go all in and go for a navy shell + navy peccary make up. I'm going to do this as a single MTO, but wanted to check if there was enough interest to do this as a GMTO for a better price. Here's the make up I worked out with Lorenzo. A lot of this was based on the black calf/peccary make up I've seen and Vystril's recent shell/tweed button boot make up. This will be a sleek, dark and sexy blue version of it. I'm really excited about it.
Make up:
804 last
Upper will use the Balway pattern seen on Tdes81's make-up here
Makeup will be Navy Shell and Navy/Blue Peccary. Navy shell for the upper and navy/blue peccary for the shaft.
Real cap toe
No medallion
270 degree hand welt
no pull tab
Black edge finish
Black single 3A 7mm leather sole. Normal leather sole is 5mm and double is 9mm, so this will be in between)
Island rubber sole - like Vystril's make up. This is a leather sole which has the center cut out and rubber inserted. This gives it a leather look from all sides except the bottom, and allows for the donkey back sole as well. It will look like this, except the leather sole will be black.
Purple goat lining
Blue buttons
5 brass nails at toe
I opted to NOT go with the bombe waist
Navy/Blue Peccary
Navy Shell + Navy Peccary 1
Navy Shell + Navy Peccary 2
Navy Shell + Navy Peccary 3
I'm still waiting on a timeline, and Lorenzo is checking around for more interest elsewhere. I'm pretty set on the details, but if you'd like to change something feel free to ask.
Pricing
GMTO Total $1209
Boot $735
Shell and Pecary $455
sole donkey back $12
Black sole $7

 

[Shawl Lapel]

Should be killer, @youtubs

 

[CanadaCal]

Can someone comment on the 946 E width vs Carmina Simpson? Does the 946 E have more forefoot/toe room?
@cattitude has shared some info which has been great, but I would like to hear more please

 

[Hermitize]

Youtubs, Id be in if we got enough for a GMTO FYI