MTM Chelsea Boots from Vietnam

[Toiletduck]

You should be charging THEM for teaching them so well...heheheh

This looks TOTALLY worth going to vietnam for....


How long do you think it would take to make a last?

 

[stickonatree]

oh my god those stern look-alikes are incredible! pics of the waist/sole/blake stitch treatment??

 

[orlagu]

Originally Posted by Toiletduck

You should be charging THEM for teaching them so well...heheheh This looks TOTALLY worth going to vietnam for.... How long do you think it would take to make a last?
In my case, one week. Moderating/tweaking a current last takes about one hour if you can wait on site, and costs as much as a new last (VND150,000/$9).

Originally Posted by stickonatree

oh my god those stern look-alikes are incredible! pics of the waist/sole/blake stitch treatment??
Thank you. Here's the pic:

I did wear them today, with white poplin dress shirt, light tan linen/cotton trousers and chocolate leather belt. Was kinda running some errands downtown, meeting friends at cafÃ

, window-shopping etc... And damn, teh gheys at those cosmetics booths kept checking me out

. They have Salvatore Ferragamo and A. Testoni in a mall here. Checked them out, and you guys know what I found? Most of the Ferragamo shoes were loafers and driving mocs (which are fugly as hell imho), the rest are a pair of oxford + a pair of chukka boot + a pair of monk (didn't bother to see the sole) and a pair of Lavorazione Originale jodhpur boot, retailed at $997 (wtf?!?). The Testoni collection was rather awful and overpriced as well.

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by m@T

Forumite whacked is guilty of this treachery

. .
For a while I thought you and whacked were the same person. Pretty wack.

For $60, damn good stuff. Holy crap.

 

[whacked]

Originally Posted by RJman

For a while I thought you and whacked were the same person. Pretty wack.

Too much coffee?

Jon.

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by whacked

Too much coffee?

Jon.

I rike you both. All three of you even (counting

Jon.)

 

[binatang]

Just got back my newest commission of a quarter brogue oxford.
Original last tweaked a little.
Shoe now has a wider forefoot, more prominent waisting & cleaner looking chisle toe.

 

[Margaret]

These $60.00 MTM shoes must be the best value I've ever seen. I'd like to see some chelseas made on a more elegant last than the OP.

 

[orlagu]

Fourth commission at Lan's, tobacco full-brogue imitating a Vass U Budapest which von Rothbart posted sometime ago. Just picked up this evening, haven't polished them yet...

This pair was made on another last, slightly improved from the previous one. Although I'm pretty happy with it overall, I think I'll probably pay my lastmaker another visit this Saturday to tweak them lasts a little bit.

 

[Tarmac]

However cheap the materials may or may not be, the workmanship really looks pretty good to me. The stitching, the cutting, and the symmetry is really spot-on.

 

[CTGuy]

Originally Posted by haganah

They should pull some Jantzen maneuvers and start selling really cheap MTM shoes on the net.

Damn-- I would totally try out a couple pairs at 60 bucks a pop-- hell-- even 70 bucks!

 

[BipgoBumpo]

Those sure are some nice looking shoes. 97 Le Thanh Ton? I'll definitely stop by some time in the next week or so to get a pair of oxfords. You wouldn't happen to know if they make anything that resembles a good pair of cowboy boots? Those are my trademark. I think I'm the only person in HCMC that wears them on a regular basis.

 

[orlagu]

I didn't recall any cowboy boots there, but they do make some bal boots and chukkas. Never seen any jodhpur though.
Off-topic: if I hadn't seen your pics/read your profile, I would have thought you were that guy, a 50-sth seems-to-be-a-vet American who resides here for years and always wear cowboy boots.

 

[BipgoBumpo]

Originally Posted by orlagu

I didn't recall any cowboy boots there, but they do make some bal boots and chukkas. Never seen any jodhpur though.
Off-topic: if I hadn't seen your pics/read your profile, I would have thought you were that guy, a 50-sth seems-to-be-a-vet American who resides here for years and always wear cowboy boots.

Nah, man, I'm just another English teacher. But I like to think I know a little more about style than the hundreds of other English teachers here. I'm here for a year, then off to somewhere else. But I'm looking forward to checking this place out for their shoes.

 

[BipgoBumpo]

By the way, what kind of deposit do these guys expect? Half the price (one shoe)? Also, I don't know how any of you feel on this next question and its aesthetics and moral issues, but do they have any "exotic" leathers, such as ostrich or crocodile? You can get crocodile belts and wallets all over town, since they farm them around here, but I haven't seen any crocodile shoes here. I did see some really expensive ones in a shop in Mui Ne that seemed to cater to Russian Mafiosi.