The Bespoke Shoes Thread

[thesartorialistbanker]

Bespoke John Lobb St. James - penny loafers in Teju lizard

 

[j ingevaldsson]

This is absolutely the most beautiful pair of your bespokes!

Thanks! Yeah they came out really great.

 

[masugu]

This thread needs to be renamed to "Cleverley hate"

I will agree though...the celebrity references / et al are too much. I don't give a tinker's cuss what Sylvester Stallone wears...

 

[boringbear]

Bespoke John Lobb St. James - penny loafers in Teju lizard

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Did they offer a trial fitting for you?(They generally don’t but only if you asked for it)

From the picture seems there’s some quite obvious fitting problems

 

[boot_owl]

Did they offer a trial fitting for you?(They generally don’t but only if you asked for it)

From the picture seems there’s some quite obvious fitting problems

could you highlight some of the obvious problems for those of us without as experienced an eye?

 

[boringbear]

could you highlight some of the obvious problems for those of us without as experienced an eye?

The most obvious two are the big creases on both inner side of the shoes and you can see the silhouette between the instep & vamp is not smooth, that's a sign showed that the instep is probably too low. The pics below are my bespoke pairs from two different Japanese makers and I think they fitted pretty well, FYR

 

[thesartorialistbanker]

They didn’t but they actually fit great. Very comfortable shoes. It might be the angle of the photo.

 

[boringbear]

They didn’t but they actually fit great. Very comfortable shoes. It might be the angle of the photo.

Probably, lovely leather by the way

 

[thesartorialistbanker]

Thank you!

 

[Concordia]

Basically don’t buy GC bespoke. There are more than enough stories here of their poor customer service and low quality shoes.

Damn. I won't say they are the best in every category, but they have been the most reliable source for me over a couple of decades. Of course, it was a sister's FIL who alerted me when they left New & Lingwood to start out-- everything changes eventually.

 

[Concordia]

It’s Glasgow JR who writes like that, he often brings up how one must be miserable without wife and friends when you ask questions about their shoes they can’t answer, since they are tangled up in lies. Happened to me several times.

Holy ****. I hope someone hacked their account. To have that kind of attitude floating around anyone's office is the kiss of death.

 

[Concordia]

me look that word up

Urban Dictionary: Asshole

A contempt “human” who goes around doing cruel and intentional **** simply to piss other people off. These individuals get off on this and are obviously deeply insecure and have nothing better to do.. It’s all fun and games, until the Asshole says the wrong thing to the wrong person.

www.urbandictionary.com

he not like igents,
he say they "idiots"
he say they "not our type of customer"
he dislike man who read internet about clothes


and he had skills to match it with the best

Wayne Booth once told an audience about a remark he'd heard in a faculty lounge. "You know, X is a real asshole. Of course, when I say that, I mean it in its non-pejorative sense."

 

[Concordia]

Bespoke John Lobb St. James - penny loafers in Teju lizard

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Those actually look like shoes. Not the 'Blobbs' of current legend.

 

[Concordia]

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I have no use for that model, but I'd consider rearranging my life to find a role for them.

 

[ntempleman]

Funny thing is, I understand Mr Statham is a customer of JLSJ so presumably prefers to spend his money there