AlanC
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A long anticipated box from Alden showed up on my doorstep this morning.
I picked these up at a thrift store a couple of years ago. They are the 984 model. Since getting them I probably wore them more than any other pair of shoes I had. They needed a reheeling (badly). The heel leather cap had detached from the rest of the heel and was flapping around (tape didn't work ), so I decided to send them off for a full Alden Restoration. I took a lot more pre-restoration pics, but those are on my computer that crashed and I haven't been able to get to them (yet). You'll have to suffer through these.
I received a call from Alden to discuss them, and was told they were made in 1985. I had wondered just how old they were.
So here are the Restoration pics. You can see where there were nicks on the toes. They did as good a job as they could have there, I think. I was very pleased with how good the stitching on the top looks.
They came complete with box, bags and shoe trees (plus an Alden catalog!). I'm very pleased, and these ought to continue to be my go-to loafers for years to come. I've sure missed having them over the past six weeks. Let's hope they can make it another quarter century.
I picked these up at a thrift store a couple of years ago. They are the 984 model. Since getting them I probably wore them more than any other pair of shoes I had. They needed a reheeling (badly). The heel leather cap had detached from the rest of the heel and was flapping around (tape didn't work ), so I decided to send them off for a full Alden Restoration. I took a lot more pre-restoration pics, but those are on my computer that crashed and I haven't been able to get to them (yet). You'll have to suffer through these.
I received a call from Alden to discuss them, and was told they were made in 1985. I had wondered just how old they were.
So here are the Restoration pics. You can see where there were nicks on the toes. They did as good a job as they could have there, I think. I was very pleased with how good the stitching on the top looks.
They came complete with box, bags and shoe trees (plus an Alden catalog!). I'm very pleased, and these ought to continue to be my go-to loafers for years to come. I've sure missed having them over the past six weeks. Let's hope they can make it another quarter century.