Lobb color - pewter museum - how versatile?

theyare · Nov 16, 2010

I am recycling this thread to ask about the pewter museum Lobb color. How versatile is it?
Works very well with a mid-gray suit, how about navy?

Old discussion topics:
Any reason to prefer the standard dark brown calf vs. the museum dark brown calf?

Anyone have any comparison pics?

Having only seen the standard calf dark brown in person, I love the way the museum looks in person and in pics, but I am also apprehensive that may come off a bit too "fancy". FWIW, I am looking at an otherwise conservative lace up captoe.

Any thoughts?

JayJay · Nov 16, 2010

Museum is great, and will only be available for a short while longer as JL is discontinuing it. I like the shoes I have in museum and receive compliments on them often. My favorite is plum, but brown looks great, too.

theyare · Nov 16, 2010

I thought I had read that, I wonder why they are discontinuing it?

mtf · Nov 16, 2010

Originally Posted by theyare

I thought I had read that, I wonder why they are discontinuing it?

A while back Ron Rider posted that whichever tannery made the leather decided to stop. I don't recall all of the reasons. The other interesting thing out of it was that it was the same leather Martegani was using and calling Radica

JamesX · Nov 16, 2010

Originally Posted by JayJay

Museum is great, and will only be available for a short while longer as JL is discontinuing it. I like the shoes I have in museum and receive compliments on them often. My favorite is plum, but brown looks great, too.

Plum is definitely the best

Though I have a special preference for the Misty Chestnut as well.

Fishball · Nov 16, 2010

I think Ilcea of Italy is the tannery of museum calf.

cdmoore1855 · Nov 17, 2010

Originally Posted by JayJay

Museum is great, and will only be available for a short while longer as JL is discontinuing it. I like the shoes I have in museum and receive compliments on them often. My favorite is plum, but brown looks great, too.

Looks like i got my order in just in time. I have a pair of special order Vale monk's in Museum Plum on their way to me as we speak, orderd end of June. Its very odd, they cost me less than they were selling them for when Vale was a standard production shoe

theyare · Nov 17, 2010

Any preferences/ comparisons of the Lobb museum dark brown vs. Lobb dark brown vs. EG dark oak antique?

JamesX · Nov 17, 2010

Originally Posted by cdmoore1855

Looks like i got my order in just in time. I have a pair of special order Vale monk's in Museum Plum on their way to me as we speak, orderd end of June. Its very odd, they cost me less than they were selling them for when Vale was a standard production shoe

>.> You weren't charged the 25% (or was it 15%) surcharge for ordering a shoe that isn't in production anymore?

JayJay · Nov 17, 2010

Originally Posted by cdmoore1855

Looks like i got my order in just in time. I have a pair of special order Vale monk's in Museum Plum on their way to me as we speak, orderd end of June. Its very odd, they cost me less than they were selling them for when Vale was a standard production shoe
The Vale looks great in plum museum. Enjoy!

woolymammoth · Nov 17, 2010

Any reason to prefer the standard dark brown calf vs. the museum dark brown calf? Not really.

theyare · Nov 17, 2010

^ so that's the standard (not museum), wooly?

woolymammoth · Nov 17, 2010

Originally Posted by theyare

^ so that's the standard (not museum), wooly?
Dark Brown Museum...picture is quite not good. Dark Brown Museum also...

theyare · Nov 17, 2010

Interesting, but then I see these...

theyare · Dec 17, 2010

I am recycling this thread to ask about the pewter museum Lobb color. How versatile is it?
Works very well with a mid-gray suit, how about navy?

Lobb color - pewter museum - how versatile?

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