Proper leather shoes

Balki is a professional comedian and a renowned after-dinner speaker.
Comedy is always of the highest order.

Im fucking serious. Best footwear ever, but they are slippers. It was the poms/seppos who turned them into a fashion item.

I occasionally leave the house in mine, but only to go down the shops or something when Im in my trackies.

I wouldnt be able to survive London winters without them.

Unlike those bastard inbred boat shoes SP posted up there...

im also a massive fan of uggs. they are slippers and should be worn as such, but much better because you can still do stuff in them. dont knock the comfort till youve worn them.

i dont actually have real uggs, but some very nice copies.

As long as they are lambs wool, it doesnt really matter... The "Ugg" brand doesnt mean shit in Oz.

Interesting:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/shoemakers?ref=seller_info

Absolutely fantastic. http://www.shiptonandheneage.co.uk/wentworth-black-brogue-wholecut-1140-0.html

Im fucking serious. Best footwear ever, but they are slippers. It was the poms/seppos who turned them into a fashion item.

I occasionally leave the house in mine, but only to go down the shops or something when Im in my trackies.

I wouldnt be able to survive London winters without them.

Fucking poms. I have woken up and it seems that a massive comedy fail has occurred on my part. I was so drunk...I particularly enjoy the way I said whaty (which I may have to begin using as a replacement for what, in a similar vein to what-oh, just less post twat). Fantasti shies and so practic.

Off to the shops in some fancy wellies with buckles.

/quickly checks subscribed threads for further errors

Ashley, I appreciated the shoes you post but they just aren't my cup of tea for some reason. Too refined, too dressy. Maybe when I become a proper adult I'll get a suit and invitations to occasions that'd actually warrant such nifty ones and twos, and then my enthusiasm for them will pick up.

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These look lush.

No, made for a lush. The sole is actually a weighted stand, so when pissed you can sway around without falling over.

I despair of this thread. It started out with proper leather shoes, leather uppers and soles, and has now turned into the rubbe soled abomination appreciation society.

Ahem, did you see the aldens!

Massive tip here. If anyone is ever round Northampton way, go to the John Lobb factory and pick up some seconds. Most faults are barely noticeable and they cost close to a grand new. I picked up some 900 pound shoes for 220 couple of years back. When I went in there I was net with a group of Japanese tourists who hadn't gone all the way to Northampton (from london probably) for the carlsburg factory.

I despair of this thread. It started out with proper leather shoes, leather uppers and soles, and has now turned into the rubbe soled abomination appreciation society.

ODFO, James!

You are a prime offender confusing rubber with leather.

You are a prime offender confusing rubber with leather.

There speaks a hardened fetishist...

And those boots ARE lush. All hand made to order, here:
http://www.williamlennon.co.uk/index.php

I fancy some of the hill boots

Ashley, I appreciated the shoes you post.........

Your thread is undiluted awesomeness....which is why I take part in it.

You are a prime offender confusing rubber with leather.

I'm not an offender... I started the fucking thread! The idea was to differentiate from the mass produced, synthetic tat contained within the Trainers thread.

Stick your snobbish orthodoxy up your arse! :-D

Rubber soled - one step away from being a trainer.

i quite like vibram. it's a very good sole material.

I like vibram (some of my favourite hiking boots are vibram), its fucking awesome, but it just does not belong on the proper leather shoes thread.

To put it in terms that hopefully people here would understand, it would be like having carbon bikes on a high end steel bike thread.

This is all my opinion so should not be taken as FACT.

These look lush.

Those are proper roundhouse kicking, not featuring MaxC.

Rubber soled - one step away from being a trainer.

Bullshit.

I'll never buy another pair of leather soled shoes in my life. They die after 3 weeks.

It's like saying you'd rather.... I don't know... Do something shit than something good.

Bullshit.

I'll never buy another pair of leather soled shoes in my life. They die after 3 weeks.

It's like saying you'd rather.... I don't know... Do something shit than something good.

Were you in the debating society at school, Balki?

That last sentence is a killer!

so what do you do with a leather sole? if it wears through to the threads? (i tend to get heel and toe wear quite quickly)
do you stick a thin rubber sole once it's worn a bit so there's a good surface for the glue to key onto? or is it a resole time? worried that's going to happen quite quickly?