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What Makes Alden Better Than AE?

Style Pontifex

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The lasts? The leather? The designs? The workmanship?

A combination of the above?

More generally, what makes a better shoe--and how could you discern superiority from inferiority simply by picking up a leather shoe and examining it?
 

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Oh, look: another SF'er making snide posts on a Saturday night that don't even directly address my questions.
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Harold falcon

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Originally Posted by Style Pontifex
Oh, look: another SF'er making snide posts on a Saturday night that don't even directly address my questions.
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Dude, we've been drinking and we aren't getting laid. What did you expect?
 

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Originally Posted by Style Pontifex
The lasts? The leather? The designs? The workmanship?

A combination of the above?


It cost more, so it must be better. End of dicussion.
 

Style Pontifex

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Originally Posted by harvey_birdman
Dude, we've been drinking and we aren't getting laid. What did you expect?

lol ;/
 

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Does it matter, they're probably all made in some place like India, or some island in the Asian Pacific : by a $2.00 a day person.
 

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Originally Posted by Roger Everett
Does it matter, they're probably all made in some place like India, or some island in the Asian Pacific : by a $2.00 a day person.

Uh, no actually they are not.
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Whichever one makes the leisure handsewn in #8 shell is the best.
 

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