Gaziano & Girling Appreciation & Shoe Appreciation Thread (including reviews, purchases, pictures)

[grc1]



You heard the man; he needs our help! Let's seriously do this.

All the above look great. But I would also love to do a deco. Any takers?

I'd be interested in a deco - oxford type lace-up e.g. Oxford, Cambridge, Strand, Mitchell, Westminster, Connaught; or a Burnham boot.

 

[laufer]

Hey @leaves this is your time to shine. Call up G&G and see if they have some unicorn leather for Burnham boot and I have a feeling we will have enough for MTO to get it going.

 

[dddrees]

Hey @leaves this is your time to shine. Call up G&G and see if they have some unicorn leather for Burnham boot and I have a feeling we will have enough for MTO to get it going.

LOL

 

[laufer]

Guys, what do you think of Burnham in this color Deep Vintage Cedar? Now this was bespoke model and there is no guarantee that G&G would do this for us but maybe a little persuading would do.

 

[JubeiSpiegel]

Burnham in experimental oxblood finish...?

 

[sacafotos]

@laufer

I like that color.

Burnham for me would have to be MH71 F, Wensum sole or beveled waist/double leather with metal toe tap. Would love the medallion on the Kent.

I'll just save up for a future MTO.

 

[bengal-stripe]



Hey @leaves this is your time to shine. Call up G&G and see if they have some unicorn leather for Burnham boot and I have a feeling we will have enough for MTO to get it going.

The scarcity of unicorn leather does not lie with the number of unicorns, but with the prescribed method of hunting. There are plenty of unicorns around (so I believe), Alas virgins, willing to sit-up all night in the middle of a forest, waiting for a unicorn to go to sleep in her lap have become exceedingly rare.

One traditional method of hunting unicorns involved entrapment by a virgin.
In one of his notebooks Leonardo da Vinci wrote:

The unicorn, through its intemperance and not knowing how to control itself, for the love it bears to fair maidens forgets its ferocity and wildness; and laying aside all fear it will go up to a seated damsel and go to sleep in her lap, and thus the hunters take it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn

 

[dddrees]

Guys, what do you think of Burnham in this color Deep Vintage Cedar? Now this was bespoke model and there is no guarantee that G&G would do this for us but maybe a little persuading would do.

Great looking color.

 

[laufer]



The scarcity of unicorn leather does not lie with the number of unicorns, but with the prescribed method of hunting. There are plenty of unicorns around (so I believe), Alas virgins, willing to sit-up all night in the middle of a forest, waiting for a unicorn to go to sleep in her lap have become exceedingly rare.

I learn something new every day.

 

[Macs]

Unicorn cordovan anyone?

 

[venividivicibj]

Unicorn cordovan anyone?

Not worth the 24 month lead time.

The creases/rolls are also not ideal.

 

[Macs]

Not worth the 24 month lead time.

The creases/rolls are also not ideal.

Well, consider having a double monk with buckles carved out from the horn... I could wait 3 years for that

 

[mw313]



Guys, what do you think of Burnham in this color Deep Vintage Cedar? Now this was bespoke model and there is no guarantee that G&G would do this for us but maybe a little persuading would do.

I love it and it would be worth asking them if th would do it. That is one of the most rich colors that I have seen in a while.

 

[Dandy Wonka]

Guys, what do you think of Burnham in this color Deep Vintage Cedar? Now this was bespoke model and there is no guarantee that G&G would do this for us but maybe a little persuading would do.

If this is some kind of bulk buy then I am definitely in.

 

[SoGent]

Burnham in experimental oxblood finish...?

get close to Vass' version and YES
OR
experimental oxblood hatchgrain ?