Proper leather shoes

how long before my brown Patrick Cox loafers come back into fashion?

I'd say, before lunch today?

fashion shoes are bad for that reason. that said in parts of england they are still the rage i am sure, you just need to relocate.

Weirdly drawn to these APC boots...

They're amazing quality. Sorry if about the profusion of boots; it's just a current obsession.

there are some very similar looking boots in COS for probably a lot cheaper.

What's COS?

its a very good store if you wear black, grey, navy or muted tones of orange and are not size L+

Bloody hell, that website is shite.

+1, does my head in even trying to look at for anything... >>>>>>>

fashion shoes are bad for that reason. that said in parts of england they are still the rage i am sure, you just need to relocate.

back in the shoe drawer they go.
i just don't like throwing out perfectly good shoes, even if they are 90's second division footballer wear for 'no trainers' nightclubs

These, MrSmyth?

Alfred Sargent really is a top class leather worker. I wonder if there is actually any better in Britain. Seriously? Possibly not. Magical shoes.

And some of the prices are surprisingly not so astronomic as one one expect. £240 for a piece of wearable art is reasonable to me. But many of the shoes are priced at a premium. No shock there. I apologise to one and all, but this really is a porn thread to me.

They truly are beautiful. Porn shoes, no doubt.

...No shock there. ...

To me shocking, considering his entire range, is your choice.
But tastes are tastes.

i think john lobb give alfred sargeant a run for their money.

there is a trend for caps of shoes to have a darker colour on them. when i wear tan colour shoes and get caught in the rain i look trendy.

very similar. no Wanker badge and a strap with a strip cut out across the top just below the tongue

Have to say, those Alfred Sargents are proper shoes eh? A proper good shoe!

also worth considering sanders, another northampton stalwart

Just had a look at their website, and the shoes are really reasonably priced! Half the price at least, of their competitors.

Alfred Sargent...

As may have been gathered so far, I am a fan of traditional leather shoes. The link that rive gauche gave to SANDERS, has provided me with a new object of my desire. Stunningly, the price is a "mere" £124.99. That means accessibility even for church mice like me. The Braemar is the shoe.

Anyone know a good psychotherapist, that can cure a burgeoning shoe fetish?

@Nuno - yes they were in excess of £500 - even with the "I'm humping the sales girl who sold them to me" discount. And no, before you all form a queue to try and hang out the back of her - we're not doing the wild thing anymore and she's left.

@coppi - I decided to go for black. I know that there are a wealth of colours available (particularly browns, tans and all their variations) but as a first pair I decided to run with what I was actually missing from the wardrobe.

@Mr Precise- COS is the better end of H&M. It's far less commercial and probably more along the infinitely simple lines of Jil Sander/Margaret Howell. I think it's very clever because it's so understated.

Grown men.

( presumably).

A group of grown men, bickering, on an internet forum, about whose shoes are the most traditional, esoteric, and therefore; coolest.

That is all.

Yep. Everything else gets discussed.....

These guys are just around the corner from me - poor chap who works there had a beautiful bike which recently has been posted in the stolen bikes thread. She's a beauty.

They also do cycling shoes, last time I looked.

http://www.tandfslackshoemakers.com/