Tsujigiri
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If Alden was the one that was commonly recommended to beginners on SF, you'd say the same thing about Alden vs John Lobb. There's not as much of a difference between AE and Alden as between the common grain-corrected department store disposables and AE, or between Alden and the higher end brands. Arbitrarily redefining the cutoff point as the narrow margin between AE and Alden seems kind of hipsterish to me, like an attempt to one up the SF baseline...I wouldn't consider AE a luxury shoe. Alden, yes.