Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice

[mormonopoly]

This week I'm wearing these 1950s Nunn Bush wingtips. These were custom made for a customer named inside the shoe.

 

[suitforcourt]

This week I'm wearing these 1950s Nunn Bush wingtips. These were custom made for a customer named inside the shoe.
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I hope the day will never come, where I think your collection is boring or pedestrian.

What an amazing pair.

 

[suitforcourt]

Rebuilds of a pair of spectators, and strawfut shoes. Seems to be our group's newest fads.

 

[Joe Wohkittel]

Can anyone tell me what kind of leather this is?

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They clean up nicely. My guess is water buffalo. I started working on this pair a couple of weeks ago, but forgot how much I dislike sole sanding. After the first shoe, they've just sat off to the side.

 

[wasmisterfu]

I'm more amazed how they keep themselves in a good health. Maybe it's all just stereotypes and I'm wrong in my prejudice. But we all know that there are a lot of places in the world and I think Congo is one of those places where you can get your head battered for such style and outfit.
Just look how strangers on the street look at those Dandies...

So, based on actual experience, working with a relief organization in a country with similar levels of development and problems (Haiti), if you went there without a whole bunch of medical shots and (depending on in-progress outbreaks) prophylactic antibiotics, you might get quite sick.

However, if you live there, you’re immune system adapts pretty quickly.

As for dressing-well leading to altercations, outside of the occasional bad-actor, I’d suspect that’s not a big issue for the local population. In my experience with Haiti, it’s a desperately poor, but surprisingly non-confrontational, and somewhat conservative, society.

However, as a foreigner (in the case of Haiti, any foreigner, including Dominicans), you have a target on your back, regardless of what you wear, because proportionally you’re massively wealthier than the average population (per capita income Haiti= 730 dollars per year, per capita income Dominican Republic= 7,750 dollars per year, per capita income US= 47,750 dollars per year). That means, for bad guys, anyone who isn’t part of the local population is a good prospect.

That said, if you have basic street-smarts, nobody will bother you. Generally I found the experience rewarding, and the vast majority of people I interacted with were friendly and gracious.

 

[wasmisterfu]

Rebuilds of a pair of spectators, and strawfut shoes. Seems to be our group's newest fads.

 

[friendlygoz]

Stealing shoes from others? Dude, I hope you have a good criminal lawyer.

They were in the lost and found! Someone lost them; I found them. Statute of limitations applies here. This was in 1989, so I'm free and clear, right counsel?

 

[Nealjpage]

This week I'm wearing these 1950s Nunn Bush wingtips. These were custom made for a customer named inside the shoe.
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Blind stitched sole. Very nice.

 

[Nealjpage]

They were in the lost and found! Someone lost them; I found them. Statute of limitations applies here. This was in 1989, so I'm free and clear, right counsel?

It depends. Where is the contraband now?

 

[wasmisterfu]

I don't even connect with the ball most of the time.

In my case, that’d probably improve matters (and make me less of a hazard to everyone else on the course).

 

[wasmisterfu]

Why do I envision this?

Because it’s accurate.

 

[wasmisterfu]

This week I'm wearing these 1950s Nunn Bush wingtips. These were custom made for a customer named inside the shoe.
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Beautiful!

 

[hamercha]

Can anyone tell me what kind of leather this is?

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When I bought my shoe, the listing says oxhide made by Mchale for Florsheim. I have no way to prove it.

 

[Oshare]

They clean up nicely. My guess is water buffalo. I started working on this pair a couple of weeks ago, but forgot how much I dislike sole sanding. After the first shoe, they've just sat off to the side.

Thanks. That looks like the same model, too.

 

[Nealjpage]

In my case, that’d probably improve matters (and make me less of a hazard to everyone else on the course).

Last time I went golfing, which was about 15 years ago, our entire party got banned from the course for life.