This Week's Bespoke Shoe Damage

aportnoy · Oct 31, 2009

3 New Comissions...I have about 40 pairs of RTW shoes to catch up on as well. Sorry for slacking off!

George Cleverley Medium Brown reverse Calf Adelaide

George Cleverley Chocolate Pebble Grain Double Monk

Paolo Scafora Dark Brown Reverse Calf Wholecut

voxsartoria · Oct 31, 2009

Fwocker. They look great.

The Adelaide is medwards-tasty.

- B

&Son · Oct 31, 2009

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.

Parker · Oct 31, 2009

Yay, weekly shoe damage is back! I like those suede wholecuts.

forex · Oct 31, 2009

40 RTW shoes?! I don't know how a single man can have so much passion for shoes,great shoes nonetheless.

celery · Oct 31, 2009

All this time I thought that you had just run out of shoes to buy.

What would happen if Aportnoy developed Mafoofan's one-shoe philosophy? Buy 7 new pairs of the same shoe every week? Hmmmm.

Michael Ay329 · Oct 31, 2009

Aportnoy, how is reverse calf different from suede?

Holdfast · Oct 31, 2009

The Cleverley Adelaides are beautiful.

Slewfoot · Oct 31, 2009

Yay! He's back! Fantastic commissions as usual. Can't wait to see what else you have from recent stock.

If I may be so bold - and others may feel differently - I think I prefer the angle of your standard photos better than these which are closer to the ground. The standard ones seem to provide a better overall feel for the shape. Of course, perhaps you could just take photos from both angles and get the best of both worlds!

BrooklynWeGoHard · Oct 31, 2009

great andrew! lets see some of those 40 RTW!

Kent Wang · Oct 31, 2009

Maybe you could hire a professional photographer to take pictures of all your shoes. You could even have some printed and framed, to hang on your wall, or on your desk like people do with their loved ones.

mishon · Oct 31, 2009

Andrew, beautiful shoes. With such light suede, however, my heart would sink if anything gets on them, but then I am a small timer.

bengal-stripe · Oct 31, 2009

Originally Posted by Michael Ay329

Aportnoy, how is reverse calf different from suede?

Suede is the generic name for a leather with a napped finish. This is done by sanding the flesh side (which is matte anyhow) to achieve a deep matte, uniform texture. That skin can come from almost any animal: calf, goat, sheep, deer.

Calf or goat (kid) are used for shoes, sheep or lamb is frequently used for clothing, deer has become pretty rare (or maybe just expensive). “Reversed calf” indicates that it is not the usual grain-side-out.

Suede refers to Sweden and "gants de SuÃ¨de" (gloves of Sweden), which were obviously made in that type of leather (probably game).
In German the generic name for suede is “game leather” (Wildleder).

Actually, I’m not aportnoy.

RJman · Oct 31, 2009

I like the double monks in particular. I find the model usually to be a bit of an iGent cliche but Cleverley manages to craft something with originality and style.

srivats · Oct 31, 2009

The shoe-fairy strikes again!!

The wholecuts are beautiful.

Please do post the other shoes too!

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