Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice

[JFWR]

Florsheim Guardsman today. I wore them to my son’s little league game. Here’s a shocker: I was the only dad there with vintage Florsheims. View attachment 1592138 View attachment 1592139

Can you believe the other fathers aren't wearing vintage florsheims?

Friggin' communists, man.

 

[JFWR]

I played high school baseball (3 games) against a guy who went on to be the starting quarterback in 10 Super Bowls; he won 7 of them. I’m pretty sure he tells people in private that the highlight of his athletic career was playing against a guy who has a very good vintage shoe collection.

****, really?

 

[suitforcourt]

Can you believe the other fathers aren't wearing vintage florsheims?

Friggin' communists, man.

Then I encourage more people to become communists. More vintage shoes for me. I am fairly left wing as it is. But I love vintage footwear. Especially Florsheim.

Better start recruiting comrades.

 

[davidVC]

Picked up this unusual pair of shoes by the Stetson Shoe Company, who were one of that rather large group of NE shoemakers back in the day. and I'd like to ask of the accumulated expertise on this thread, just what type of shoes are these? While the company is unrelated to the western hat company of the same name, the shoe is surprisingly western in look, with the appearance of a chopped-off western boot with side gores. In 2-3 decades of yard sale-ing, thrifting and finding vintage shoes, I've never seen a pair like this, and my Google-fu hasn't been helping. Any ideas?
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I would call that a slip-on.

I think those were Bostonian made Stetson shoes.

 

[Leiker]

Then I encourage more people to become communists. More vintage shoes for me. I am fairly left wing as it is. But I love vintage footwear. Especially Florsheim.

Better start recruiting comrades.

I agree that Florsheim gunboats won the Cold War.

 

[stook1]

Then I encourage more people to become communists. More vintage shoes for me. I am fairly left wing as it is. But I love vintage footwear. Especially Florsheim.

Better start recruiting comrades.

I'm with you, comrade!

 

[suitforcourt]

I'm with you, comrade!

Canadian Tuxedos.

 

[JFWR]

Then I encourage more people to become communists. More vintage shoes for me. I am fairly left wing as it is. But I love vintage footwear. Especially Florsheim.

Better start recruiting comrades.

Lol. In Soviet Russia, vintage shoes wear you.

 

[Quantum17]

Then I encourage more people to become communists. More vintage shoes for me. I am fairly left wing as it is. But I love vintage footwear. Especially Florsheim.

Better start recruiting comrades.

I agree that Florsheim gunboats won the Cold War.

It was all a misunderstanding, gentlemen!!! Khrushchev was only so excited, he waved his shoe to demonstrate what quality vintage shoes should be. да да it’s true

Nikita Khrushchev allegedly brandishes his shoe at the United Nations | October 12, 1960 | HISTORY

In one of the most surreal moments in the history of the Cold War, Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev pounds his fist on the table, and according to some reports, removes his shoe and threatens to pound a table with it in protest against a speech critical of Soviet policy in Eastern Europe...

www.history.com

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/26/...nd-the-shoe.html?referringSource=articleShare

 

[stook1]

It was all a misunderstanding, gentlemen!!! Khrushchev was only so excited, he waved his shoe to demonstrate what quality vintage shoes should be. да да it’s true

Nikita Khrushchev allegedly brandishes his shoe at the United Nations | October 12, 1960 | HISTORY

In one of the most surreal moments in the history of the Cold War, Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev pounds his fist on the table, and according to some reports, removes his shoe and threatens to pound a table with it in protest against a speech critical of Soviet policy in Eastern Europe...

www.history.com

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/26/...nd-the-shoe.html?referringSource=articleShare View attachment 1592533

Amazing how the mind spins... anyone else remember this vintage florsheim foreign relations incident from 15 or so years ago?

 

[Leiker]

Amazing how the mind spins... anyone else remember this vintage florsheim foreign relations incident from 15 or so years ago?

Hahahaha beat me to it

 

[JFWR]

Amazing how the mind spins... anyone else remember this vintage florsheim foreign relations incident from 15 or so years ago?

Bush dodged them as he wore Allen Edmonds to the inauguration.

 

[Quantum17]

Amazing how the mind spins... anyone else remember this vintage florsheim foreign relations incident from 15 or so years ago?

Florsheim duckie? Didn’t know that’s how the name come about. Wow!

 

[sam67]

Who is the shark stretcher? (exotics) Is it CWOyaji? (I can't recall) Could it be done from a C to a D? And this is only the right foot, really. My left will fit a C

thanks for info.

 

[stook1]

Bush dodged them as he wore Allen Edmonds to the inauguration.

Gotta hand it to GWB on that one! I chalk it up to his days around the Texas Rangers as a successful businessman. From what I was able to tell from my frame-by-frame analysis of the incident, it was a hell of a knuckle...shoe. As for the Iraqi journalist - clearly ahead of his time as he easily could have plunked DT if given the opportunity. Lets be honest, he's a much bigger target with, shall we say, unusual ideas about physical exertion.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/15/politics/donald-trump-exercise

Anyway! back to shoes.