Show us your SHOES !!!

[SteveAS]

Incidentally, is this the Pecard product you guys like?: Pecard Antique Leather Dressing

I've been using Lexol, but I see so many references to Pecard's, I'd like to try it on these.

 

[Isshinryu101]

Incidentally, is this the Pecard product you guys like?: Pecard Antique Leather Dressing

I've been using Lexol, but I see so many references to Pecard's, I'd like to try it on these.

Pecards is excellent for vintage shoes & a necessity when the leather & finish has become dry. It takes some time for the conditioner to penetrate because it is petroleum jelly based, but they have saved quite a few pairs of 60+ years old shoes. Thanks, Cookie!

 

[Isshinryu101]

Probably the most INSANE Spectators I've ever handled (thanks, Cookie). NOS 1920's by Atlas.

 

[cookie]

Great score. The true handmades have a hatched effect on the soles and hand made written on them as well as being hand sewn. Those need some conditioner BTW. I suspect those are 1980s too and NOS to boot.

It seems there may be hand mades without the cross hatching on my 1990s pair.

http://uptowndandy.blogspot.com/search?q=handmades

Here is an interesting link to a pair like yours. The details are wrong (re pre-War) with that heel detail IMO but I had a pair which did have that heel from the 50s/60s.

http://www.classicshoesformen.com/s...nston-murphy-5-eyelet-full-brogue-oxford-415d

 

[Tomasso]

I want to love them but I'm getting a huge Stacy Adams vibe that is overpowering the quality make. I think it's the open lacing.

 

[cookie]

Stacey vibe?...that's a low blow. They came from a store in Brittany France called "Le Chat Noir" which closed in 1940! Don't ask me where they resided from 1940 - 2008 but after some Pecards they have found new life in (of all places) Australia.

Incidentally, is this the Pecard product you guys like?: Pecard Antique Leather Dressing

I've been using Lexol, but I see so many references to Pecard's, I'd like to try it on these.

Lexol? Forgedddabboudditt! Use Pecards.

 

[esteban68]

Wow, how cool are those, It really makes you wonder what else is lying around in France?

 

[esteban68]

Here's one of the 'charity shop three' I obtained a week or so ago; first up the BALLY c1980's? brown loafers, not every bodies cup of tea but I think they'll go great with a cream linen suit on a mediteranean night or two next year?

very nicely made with leather soles uppers and inners.

Next up the secomd pair of BALLY a monk strap shoe in a rich dark red brown,

 

[esteban68]

and the last of the three, a pair of Russell Bromley evening shoe, the grained leather is butter soft so they're great for dancing in!

The mark on the left to is where some drunken Heifer stumbled across the dance floor and over my toe before falling over a table at the first row of diner seating!

 

[cookie]

Pity about the girl as Moreschi are a very good shoe.

 

[esteban68]

It's not as bad as it looks, you can only see it in certain lighting, there's no tearing etc just an indent from about 12 stone of drunken womanhood!

 

[Isshinryu101]

...there's no tearing etc just an indent from about 12 stone of drunken womanhood!

AH, to be young again!

 

[Tomasso]

Had a similar situation years ago with a pair of Ferragamo burgundy cap toes. Girl drilled the cap with her stiletto heel and left a dent that bugged me so much that they became my rain/snow shoes.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Girl drilled the cap with her stiletto heel and left a dent that bugged me so much that they became my rain/snow shoes.

Unforgivable! Let's hope you did some drilling in return.

 

[Talbot]

 

[Tomasso]

Unforgivable! Let's hope you did some drilling in return.

Yes, and that dent would always cause a reminiscence....along with the vid she did for ZZ Top.....she had legs.....

 

[Isshinryu101]

Let's hope you did some drilling in return.

AH, to be young again! part deux

 

[The Shooman]

A really great boot mate!

Keep on buying shoos if you can, you can never have enough.

l bought a derby suede boot today. Highly unusual for me.

Later.

 

[The Shooman]

Church's desert boots:

 

[dirty old biker]

my home crafted toeguards & bootstraps ect (made from hand shaped & polished stainless steel)
......

and yes , I do wear them :