Shoe Damage Report & Shoe P0rn Central - Part II

[SpooPoker]

Moving away from the clunky shoes...


Marc Guyot for Paul Stuart.

 

[Slewfoot]



Moving away from the clunky shoes...
Marc Guyot for Paul Stuart.

I'll take clunky any day in that case. :^)

 

[NAMOR]

^ awwww snap! Slewfoot, have the vass double monks grown any in the last couple weeks? Size 45.5 would be ideal

 

[Slewfoot]

^ I think they're now at 44.5. I'll PM you when they reach your needs.

 

[Pliny]

How can you know for sure? The only one that is absolutely certainly hand stitched is the upper left hand shoe. The stitching on the apron is "split and lift" and that cannot be done by machine.
That said, at a guess I would say they were all hand stitched.

cheers man- point about the Dover, to paraphrase a well known Ebay seller- 'can any machine do this?' that's what I call art.
It's the same with the rest of Vass construction - you can't tell much about the degree of hand work just by inspection, but knowing that they're hand lasted and hand welted says that in some far flung workshop there's people making shoes same way they did 200 yrs ago.

FWIW, in the new CJ catalog, there are 2 models in the handgrade range with the apron and they are explicitly mentioned as hands titched. The models in the benchgrade line are silent as to the stitching aspect

thks

 

[SpooPoker]



I'll take clunky any day in that case. :^)

I knew you would say that. And I see you there with your thumbs, AJ.

 

[aj_del]



I knew you would say that. And I see you there with your thumbs, AJ.

 

[mcarthur]

ravello wt boot
argyles otc

 

[mcarthur]

brown horse bit loafer
argyles otc

 

[fritzl]



I'll take clunky any day in that case. :^)

+1

i like the style, but the last is too gaudy for my taste and the shape of my feet.

 

[meister]



Moving away from the clunky shoes...

Marc Guyot for Paul Stuart.

Pure 1930s revisited but typical of Guyot done authentically...maybe a little pointier/Italian than that era.

 

[fritzl]



on the subject...

imo, these discussions are educational because they bring various aspects to the table and interested parties can make up their mind.

 

[Pliny]

Moving away from the clunky shoes...

Now that's what I call a Dandy shoe.

Power to anyone who dares wear them.

 

[bengal-stripe]



Now that's what I call a Dandy shoe.

Power to anyone who dares wear them.

This shoe style is also known as a “d’Annunzio”, named after the Italian poet-fascist-lover.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriele_d'Annunzio

A dandy if there ever was one (as the clothing collection in his museum reveals)

http://www.gqitalia.it/show/lifesty...iegato-al-vittoriale-da-giordano-bruno-guerri

 

[luk-cha]

... but i prefer the wat the dover is hand stitched on the vamp
!

the vass looks handstitched to me.

like i said i prefer the way the EG s stitched, not that the vass is or aint