Proper leather shoes

Ralph Lauren purple label, I could have rammed them up the arse of the yank mincer who kept bleating about the exclusive firm that had made them - Green and Son. He pointed out that they would be much better made than the shoes I had on - which were actually a pair of tan Grensons. Utter fuckwit but they were 1/4 of the normal price in a sale.

My Gucci brogues are in the office, and the Grensons I left at my dads place in the country.

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ah, proper shoes

i have a pair or two of grensons, before they became so outre

loake are so much more understated, and i don't necessarily share the love of phat goodyear welting, especially not for town

having said that johnny moke used to produce a lovely 'clockwork orange' round toe brogue; tricker's are nice and robust also

i also remember a couple of graduates of cordwainers setting up the house of beauty and culture in stamford road, dalston in the 80s, john moore?; anyway he made some nice classics with twist before rather inconveniently dying

*puffs pipe

Wearing this winter:

LD Tuttle:

Acne:

Ksubi:

Robert Geller X Comon Projects:

Chronicles Of Never:

H By Hudson:

Jeffrey Campbell:

Get on my level, Ya'all can't get on my level, you need a space shuttle or a latter thats forever to get on my level.

all fugly

not one of those is a proper shoe.
unless you like twilight.
or are delusional.

Has Chris found a box of NOS Bananarama props?

not one of those is a proper shoe.
unless your shit is so on point it hurts me an ocean away and at least 10 years off trend, I'm going to log off and take my weak ass to the local steezery

FTFY.

p.s.
you where funnier before you edited it, the first time.

nah, son, you wouldn't know steez if a steezologist gave you a steez transplant.

Your shit:

X

X

My Shit:

X

X

X

Chris, you know all of those boots were first in fashion here in London two years ago.

And besides we're talking about classic shoe designs which transcend fashion.

Ummm

Italy, Sweden, Australia, NYC, NYC, London, NYC all FW10

you would have been better with the photos which go London, NYC, London, NYC

Did'nt look so smart after Obewon burnt his fecking legs off did he.

and Re you edit: no your talking about boring shoes with an american invention to make them look more british, I'm talking about what I picked up because I found it to be some of the most interestingXaffordable pieces of this season.

... Italy, Sweden, Australia, NYC, NYC, NYC all FW10

All knockoffs!

crash, you've changed.
for the worse.

enjoy your faux nerd X epic WoW gamer X Prepster how many collars can I pop today 'Fashion' trends and I'll enjoy you frantically changing your tune each 'season'.

oh

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n115/leathersoul/lstr1.jpg

fuck

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n115/leathersoul/tptricker.jpg

yes

They're beautiful... BTW I'm always right...

You know the clever way they write ads on criket pitches etc. So that they look flat to the camera, when filmed from an accute angle.

Never seen that done with cycling sponsers before.

Fecking genious, Vegemite. Well done.

you've got the experience of age over all of us though Joeslain, its easy to be right then.

Has Chris found a box of NOS Bananarama props?

repped and to see it again

They're beautiful... BTW cataract operation is in teh first week of January...

They look like a child's rendition of a brogue.

They're beautiful... BTW I'm always right...

The lines on those are all kinds of fucked up, and the brass on the eyelets clashes with both colors of the sole leather, which clashes with the sole top stitching (which has a really specific name I cant remember at 4:30am) and they are tied carelessly, and one should never show socks with their trousers turned up, and turning up your trousers is a trend that is so over the NYT thinks its new

chrash- everything you've posted looks like the things I wore 7-8 years ago, when trying to get served in pubs.

you've got the experience of age over all of us though Joeslain, its easy to be right then.

Good lad, Henry...

They look like a child's rendition of a brogue.

The lines on those are all kinds of fucked up, and the brass on the eyelets clashes with both colors of the sole leather, which clashes with the sole top stitching (which has a really specific name I cant remember at 4:30am) and they are tied carelessly, and one should never show socks with their trousers turned up, and turning up your trousers is a trend that is so over the NYT thinks its new

Hehehe... I've forgotten more than you'll ever know about style, my retarded little children... x
And the reason those brogues work is because they clash so much... They look like cartoon brogues, so James is kinda half right...

There is a purpose to those large soles, it is to help walking across boggy ground, so not required for city dwellers. The sartorial equivalent to riding a full suss mtb in town.