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If you insist...Slight digression, but you should post some delicious 1988 Shell MacNeil shoe pr0n.
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If you insist...Slight digression, but you should post some delicious 1988 Shell MacNeil shoe pr0n.
will do.Shoot. I'm 8 or 8.5 in case you come across anything ?
As I wrote “The era of the shoe salesman”, you gotta know that Al Bundy was front of mind...Like Al Bundy right?...
So, ummmm ... nothing in a size 13c/d or 14 b/c?These are heading to Japan.
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It is weird that I feel attachment and ambivalence when they head out.
My NOS s dwindling down to ~8 left.
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Nice find! My pair of Florsheim Limited suede boots are soft and floppy, but comfortable.
Overall construction is a bit sloppy and they can't hold a candle to the vintage shoes in terms of quality, but I paid $40 for mine (used) so can't really complain too much... except to say that Florsheim is a sorry shadow of what they used to be.
Mine are made in China.
Yeah, zooming in on those, the upper stitching is a bit wonky in places; looks rushed. How much were those when they were new?
That is how he must have bought from the store. When I used to sell shoe, I let customer pick and choose different shoe from different box. Afterall they are same shoe. Happens all the time.Sending out the vcleat signal to @davidVC : any idea how these 93605s might have come from two different pairs? I discovered it after I purchased them. The seller was surprised when I told him. Check out the different date and pair codes. Weird. View attachment 1397704 View attachment 1397705
Great knowledge. Thanks.That is how he must have bought from the store. When I used to sell shoe, I let customer pick and choose different shoe from different box. Afterall they are same shoe. Happens all the time.
The lack of expertise is widespread. I was with some family at a steak house in Texas and my brother in law asked the waitress what wines they offered. She happily said, “Oh, we carry all three kinds of wine: Red, white and paink.” (Paink, not pink.)
A number of years ago, I’m at a supposedly “upscale” restaurant in Atlanta (Buckhead), after closing a business deal, and the waitress serving us can only be described as both attractive and cute.
(The waitress.)
However, she was also, well... let’s just say she wasn’t the swiftest jet on the runway, the sharpest pencil in the box, etc. In fact, she was as thick as a plank of wood; she managed, somehow, to get our entire order, entirely wrong.
(Wut?!)
I don’t mean she got sides wrong, or something wasn’t cooked as ordered, I mean she managed to get everything incorrect. I ordered a ribeye with potatoes au gratin, I got filet mignon with a baked potato; one of my guests ordered salmon and got halibut. The only thing that was sort of correct was that if you ordered beef, the thing she brought to the table was some variation of beef. With about a dozen people at the table, I’d have thought pure chance would have meant at least one order was right. Nope, everything was wrong. It was quite something.
(Low blood sugar rage.)
Obviously, I was pretty irritated by this display of gross incompetence. Being both an engineer and a manager, I needed a root cause analysis as to what had gone so terribly wrong. So I pulled the manager aside, who looked like he was 19 and could have been an Abercrombie model.
(The manager.)
It took about 5 yoctoseconds to understand that this manager wasn’t hired for his managerial talent, and that everyone else, including the clearing staff, were all suspiciously hip and good looking. There wasn’t one iota of expertise in this restaurant (beyond the owners ability to pick out young attractive staff).
The “manager” profusely apologized, and I decided not to come down too hard on him, or the waitress, because it was clear that is was the owner who’d ultimately set these people up to fail. Nobody was trained, it was apparent that other parties were waiting for food and, from where I was standing, I could hear unhappy shouting noises from the kitchen.
Not willing to risk the rest of the afternoon on them getting it wrong a second time (as service can only have been described as lackadaisical), we went to a bistro down the street.
(F it.)
I gave them a one-star scathing review on Yelp, and I’m pretty sure that restaurant is long gone. Expertise and quality matter; it can’t be all superficial aesthetics.
I see that Duckie Browns Florsheims are of acceptable quality. Still made in India and all that. What makes them better than run of the mill Indian Florsheims?
Tassel loafer is best loafer.Tassel loafer is classy as F!
I hope the day never comes when one of your posts ceases to entertain me. I also have learned a new word - yoctosecond.