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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
English shoemakers, Taylor & Lord and Churchs, used French shell cordovan. Bostonian and Bates imported shell cordovan. I wonder if the latter, too, were French shell. (Bates used Horween's shell, too. See p.6.) Anyone know of the French tannery's name...- VegTan
- Post #58
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
A History of Long Wing Bluchers 1963 Allen Edmonds https://issuu.com/allenedmonds/docs/1963-catalog 1959 Nettleton https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1338&dat=19590916&id=yv9XAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HfcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1655,3592368 1954 Roblee (Brown Shoe Company)...- VegTan
- Post #48
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
Yeah, L B Sheppard's v-cleats are hard to find. Probably the clear label of MADE IN U.S.A. was made after the 1970s to 1980s and no MADE IN U.S.A. label around the 1960s to 1970s. Interestingly, this Iron Age by Bostonian around the 1970s has the Hanover's (probably) FD mark. Clarks...- VegTan
- Post #47
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Shoe Damage Report & Shoe P0rn Central - Part II
The box and the v-cleat position show the 60s to early 70s! Filing Date November 5, 1984 (Registration Date July 23, 1985) FIRST USE 8-0-1979; FIRST USE IN COMMERCE 8-0-1979. http://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn73507306&docId=SPE20051103081359#docIndex=1&page=1 Dated October...- VegTan
- Post #20,589
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Shell Cordovan Wallet Pron
I remember the video but can't recall where I watched. It may have been twitvid (dead link). https://twitter.com/HorweenLeather/status/14722954521 "Slicking" to make those colors nice and clear http://twitvid.com/BB1UB- VegTan
- Post #679
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Japanese Shoes: Bespoke & RTW Super Thread
Otsuka began to import Church's in 1965. Shirai Toshio (1937-) says he bought Florsheim #93602 for 25,000 yen in the early 1960s at Futabaya (1897-) when his monthly salary was 16,000 yen. http://blog.goo.ne.jp/hito0815/e/2eebc52544a741e52f45965a58f240b5 The first specialty store Tomoeya of...- VegTan
- Post #3,621
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Japanese Shoes: Bespoke & RTW Super Thread
I haven't heard outcasts manufactured all kinds of footwear. They manufactured leather soled sandals "Setta" and leather goods. Up until 1871, Dan Naoki (1823－1889, the 13th Dan zaemon), the head of outcasts in the Tokyo area, had some monopolies. One of them was the right to acquire dead...- VegTan
- Post #3,457
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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The official thrift/discount store bragging thread - Part II (May 2015 - Sept. 2018)
They are US 7 1/2 C. I think BB uses 0 instead of a dash (–).- VegTan
- Post #13,824
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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...and that's why they're called Weejuns
I've been googling on the original of slip-ons, so-called Norwegian peasant shoes, and found out what looks like it, but Google Translate from Norwegian into English doesn't work at all! I'd like to know who wrote www.aurdalen.com and a relationship between Nils Tveranger (a founder of...- VegTan
- Post #22
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Japanese Shoes: Bespoke & RTW Super Thread
I've just noticed Last magazine's website. http://www.lastmagazine.jp/en/- VegTan
- Post #3,285
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Japanese Shoes: Bespoke & RTW Super Thread
The Japanese doesn't have a custom to eat veal. Wagyu is steers or heifers and Matsusaka beef is only heifers. Japanese tanneries import rawhide for calfskin or kipskin from Europe, AFAIK. I suspect they import the remainder of European tanneries.- VegTan
- Post #3,256
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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London bespoke shoe and bookmakers -- list of historical makers
The older wrapping paper without Prince Charles' warrant (before 70s?) says: "Chas. Moykopf Ltd., F. G. Buhl Ltd., Craig & Davies, and Joseph Box. Nikolaus Tuczek, Codner, Coombs & Dobbie, Smith & Hook, Knowles." http://forthediscerningfew.com/2011/11/21/john-lobb-bootmaker-part-i/...- VegTan
- Post #15
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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**The Official Shoe Care Thread: Tutorials, Photos, etc.**
Me, too. Shell wasn't an expensive material, was it? http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=w2ZSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4XwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1970,1819820 I didn't notice at all! Alden has horn. I suppose that French Shriner is around 1960s―1970s.- VegTan
- Post #13,031
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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**The Official Shoe Care Thread: Tutorials, Photos, etc.**
These don't seem like military-issued shoes because of the absence of a contract number, but I was very surprised and this may be the first and last time to find military-style shoes made of shell. Does anyone know whether these are USMC-style civilian goods?- VegTan
- Post #13,019
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Shoe Leather Experts....
I cited Vegano as an example of burnishing leather and didn't intend to write the boots were made of Vegano. Don't you call this shading burnishing? Here is a factory tour at Annonay just for reference. Neither do I.- VegTan
- Post #10
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Shoe Leather Experts....
It is called burnishing/crust leather and almost always finished/polished by shoemakers.- VegTan
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- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Vintage English Shell Cordovan for BB - Curious Fact
Are your shoes X765 or 765? I gather a factory of cordovan shoes was changed from Church/Cheaney to Alden around the (late) 1970s. Here are shell wingtip oxfords "X764" stamped "MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN" on the sock & the outsole. Here are shell PTBs "X765" stamped "MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN" on...- VegTan
- Post #2
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Banister Shoes
I'm deeply sorry for your loss and looking forward to the launch of the website. Banisters are one of the hardest to find. Newark, N.J., illustrated. (1893) The industrial interests of Newark, N. J. (1874)- VegTan
- Post #23
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Church shoes found at a yard sale
My intention was resale price in Japan. So, wholesale price (thru ebay) would be around $100 to $300. For example, old Church's prices last 3 months at a Japanese auction...- VegTan
- Post #6
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Church shoes found at a yard sale
http://www.styleforum.net/t/363690/help-identifying-a-pair-of-vintage-churchs-two-eye-plain-toe-derbys#post_6625641 These are around 70s. If you buy from the same person, other shoes would be 70s. Your Alan McAfee was made by Church's. The sizes range 6 to 8 are ideal for the Japanese market and...- VegTan
- Post #2
- Forum: Classic Menswear