First decent shoes ever bought! It's like Christmas came early!

[peterparker20]

Due to the advice of this forum, I basically got great shoes for a great price.

http://www.brooksbrothers.com/IWCat...ort_by=newArrivals&sectioncolor=&sectionsize=



I got these Brooks Brothers' rebranding of Allen Edmond's 5th Avenue (I prefer the partial rubber sole, dovetail, and added cushion) from the Allen Edmond's shoe bank/ factory seconds shipped from Wisconsin.

The shoes were $199, a surprising $205 after taxes somehow (they must be cheating the IRS). Also got rosewood cedar shoe trees for about $17 after tax.

Since these were the most expensive shoes I've ever purchased (last ones were $160 J&M which turned out to be crap quality) - I was interested in trying to find the 'factory defects' these were included with.

I don't have a trained eye, but the only perceptible 'imperfection' was a smudge/ marking on the underside of the sole, but I'm not sure if that's just to mark that its a 'second' or if its the imperfection itself.

I can hardly care about markings on the sole, and the shoes and shoe trees smell awesome!

Thank you forum!

My only question now is, do I really have to polish these before the first wear? Also, should I put the shoe trees in before the first wear?

Hopefully this isn't the beginning of a massive shoe binge, I'm already like a crack addict thinking about brown ones now..

 

[Sonorously]

I definitely recommend conditioning and polishing them with a shoe cream before wearing.

 

[Gdot]

Ready to wear shoes should be conditioned before wearing as a precaution against dryness.

Sometimes they've been sitting in inventory quite a while before reaching you.

 

[JesseJB]

1. Put on those shoes
2. Go downtown
3. Find ladiez
4. ?????
5. Profit!

 

[getshawn]

The AE 5th Ave is a great shoe. Congrats on the purchase.

 

[Snedley]

Due to the advice of this forum, I basically got great shoes for a great price.

http://www.brooksbrothers.com/IWCat...ort_by=newArrivals&sectioncolor=&sectionsize=



I got these Brooks Brothers' rebranding of Allen Edmond's 5th Avenue (I prefer the partial rubber sole, dovetail, and added cushion) from the Allen Edmond's shoe bank/ factory seconds shipped from Wisconsin.

The shoes were $199, a surprising $205 after taxes somehow (they must be cheating the IRS). Also got rosewood cedar shoe trees for about $17 after tax.

Since these were the most expensive shoes I've ever purchased (last ones were $160 J&M which turned out to be crap quality) - I was interested in trying to find the 'factory defects' these were included with.

I don't have a trained eye, but the only perceptible 'imperfection' was a smudge/ marking on the underside of the sole, but I'm not sure if that's just to mark that its a 'second' or if its the imperfection itself.

I can hardly care about markings on the sole, and the shoes and shoe trees smell awesome!

Thank you forum!

My only question now is, do I really have to polish these before the first wear? Also, should I put the shoe trees in before the first wear?

Hopefully this isn't the beginning of a massive shoe binge, I'm already like a crack addict thinking about brown ones now..

So which one did you buy? That link is to BB and those shoes are made by Alden. If you bought something that looks alike from some shoebank it's not the same shoe.
Rosewood and cedar are two diffenent woods. Rosewood is expensive while that red cedar they use at AE is cheap.

 

[Snedley]

Due to the advice of this forum, I basically got great shoes for a great price.

http://www.brooksbrothers.com/IWCat...ort_by=newArrivals&sectioncolor=&sectionsize=



I got these Brooks Brothers' rebranding of Allen Edmond's 5th Avenue (I prefer the partial rubber sole, dovetail, and added cushion) from the Allen Edmond's shoe bank/ factory seconds shipped from Wisconsin.

The shoes were $199, a surprising $205 after taxes somehow (they must be cheating the IRS). Also got rosewood cedar shoe trees for about $17 after tax.

Since these were the most expensive shoes I've ever purchased (last ones were $160 J&M which turned out to be crap quality) - I was interested in trying to find the 'factory defects' these were included with.

I don't have a trained eye, but the only perceptible 'imperfection' was a smudge/ marking on the underside of the sole, but I'm not sure if that's just to mark that its a 'second' or if its the imperfection itself.

I can hardly care about markings on the sole, and the shoes and shoe trees smell awesome!

Thank you forum!

My only question now is, do I really have to polish these before the first wear? Also, should I put the shoe trees in before the first wear?

Hopefully this isn't the beginning of a massive shoe binge, I'm already like a crack addict thinking about brown ones now..

Go down to the Q&A on that link and you'll see that BB says they're made by Alden.

 

[Snedley]

Go down to the Q&A on that link and you'll see that BB says they're made by Alden.

The AE are the ones that regularly retail for $298 and that BBwon't say who makes them. If it's an Alden they will say because they've always had special models made for BB by Alden for a long time. Ben Silver does this too and will call it an Alden made for Silver.

 

[AbeFroeman]

1. Put on those shoes
2. Go downtown
3. Find ladiez
4. ?????
5. Profit!

South Park!!!