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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
Those were made by Edward Green. Beautiful find.- well-kept
- Post #40,080
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
I believe that the Hanover shells were produced for the Church's shops in the states, NYC, Beverly Hills, etc, not for the English firm itself, and were subtly branded as such. Church shops also offered a line of handsewn moccasins which were clearly made in the US, and which probably never...- well-kept
- Post #36,807
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
Nail polish does the job.- well-kept
- Post #34,379
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
10 7/8"- well-kept
- Post #34,097
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
As Brannock-related problems go, yours seems moderate. Some years ago I actually made a visit to the place in Syracuse where the devices have been made for decades. This was pre-eBay and I wanted to buy one as a gift for someone who had been fascinated by them since childhood. It seemed the only...- well-kept
- Post #19,469
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
As to the reading of AE's 4-digit date code, what do we make of a pair of 80s shell Leeds with the 'date code' of 3835? Third day of the 83rd week?- well-kept
- Post #13,080
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
Which pair - single or double cleat - has the greater number of nails?- well-kept
- Post #10,685
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
Someone designed these. Someone else agreed to manufacture them. Someone else agreed to distribute/retail them. And someone decided to buy, and evidently to wear them.- well-kept
- Post #10,099
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
Would that be Phil, on upper Madison Ave around 90th?- well-kept
- Post #10,098
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
It is not the v-cleat by itself which creates the slipperiness of the heel, but the sum total of the metal, including and especially the nails. This is particularly true in the older vintage Imperials where the nail count is extremely high - much higher than in later v-cleat heels. Just counted...- well-kept
- Post #9,968
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
The Hinsdale was made from the mid-late 90s until the early 200s. In my view they were the best-designed loafers AE has ever made. I have a pair in shell, purchased in 1997, which have been worn to an extraordinary degree and are still good. They were made on the old number 4 last, which is no...- well-kept
- Post #9,074
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
Hi, I have since learned that the cloth label, as in your pair, was used from as early as the 1920s, until and perhaps into the 50s. The large brogueing on your pair would seem to place them in the 40s, to my eye. There are loads of archival ads to be found in a Google Images search and you...- well-kept
- Post #8,857
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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2018 shoe revival challenge
Not even slight offense, you are demonstrating the sorts of finds many people live for and dream of. It's wonderful.- well-kept
- Post #284
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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2018 shoe revival challenge
You either have a one-in-a-million wife or you are a troll having a great laugh. Either way, nice to see your posts.- well-kept
- Post #278
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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B.Nelson does a great job
I am fascinated by the above, because... about seven years ago I had an already very old pair of bluchers - hand-welted btw - custom modified as walking shoes. The outermost of the double leather soles was removed and a Vibram lug sole was simply glued over the first layer of sole leather. I...- well-kept
- Post #475
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
David, thanks for the beautiful article on the shell Yuma. I actually own a pair of the Loch Ness-worthy early 93007 as well as an 80s pair. There is one additional difference between the two, to my eye. The 93007 has a narrower, more pointed toe shape, with the last swung in a bit toward the...- well-kept
- Post #6,996
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
Florsheim did use that exact heel on some shells. I have a pair of shell Yumas with the same heels, same sole stamping, etc. Which is not to say that the tassels are shell. Just to clarify that the heel is not the decisive factor. Also, the model number on my Yumas - 5S 33830 - indicates that...- well-kept
- Post #6,834
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
Thanks. I think you're basically correct; I'd place most shoes with this stamping no later than the 1950s. I have quite a few pair that have it - hard to photograph as it is almost always blind-stamped into the waist of the insole and no more than a half inch or so high. I have tried to look up...- well-kept
- Post #3,001
- Forum: Classic Menswear
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Most elegant men's dress shoe ever! With Pictures and POLLING!
I agree with all of DWF's observations, and especially appreciate the added notion of lack of pretense. Elegance and simplicity - of form, of expression, of thought - are often arrived at after long and arduous study, aspiration and labor. To express a complex and meaningful idea in few words is...- well-kept
- Post #32
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Vintage Dress shoe appreciation, tips, maintenance and advice
Regarding the old shield-shaped Boot and Shoe Workers Union stamp, with the factory number: does anyone know the outer date this was in use, ie: if it is stamped into the leather insole, what is the latest era the shoe can have been produced?- well-kept
- Post #2,996
- Forum: Classic Menswear