Show us your SHOES !!!

[Isshinryu101]

Look at the swan neck detailing like on high end shoes. I almost could almost be looking at Edward Green shoes in the popular and classic 202 last.

Look at that leather naturally antiquing on the orangy-brown pair. Olga Berluti ain't got nuthin' on those babies. Simply breathtaking.

 

[flyfishark]

WF McElwain Shoes was started in 1902 in Massachusetts. Later that same year, he opened a manufacturing facility in Manchester. By 1921, his brother, JF McElwain had sold his stock in the company & started his own. Like his brother, JF McElwain kept facilities in the UK, even as he kept his main business in New Hampshire.

Many thanks, my friend. You got Lexis??

 

[Tomasso]

JF McElwain's main business was supplying Melville Shoe Corp with shoes for their Thom McAn stores. The two business eventually merged and over the years morphed into what is today the CVS drug store chain.

 

[Isshinryu101]

Many thanks, my friend. You got Lexis??

Actually I preferred Westlaw...

 

[Isshinryu101]

Classic 1950's Florsheims... on the way to my Father's feet!

 

[flyfishark]

Classic 1950's Florsheims... on the way to my Father's feet!

Issh...this is you Father speaking...Send them across the river!! These are some of the most gorgeous shoes I've seen! Congrats to you, and to your Dad.

 

[Isshinryu101]

Issh...this is you Father speaking...Send them across the river!! These are some of the most gorgeous shoes I've seen! Congrats to you, and to your Dad.

Many thanks! These were actually spotted by a good friend.

 

[Isshinryu101]

1930's Foot Joy Alligator & Suede Cap Toes.

I'm REALLY loving Foot Joy... and the 1930's!

 

[cookie]

Stunning shoes...one of your scores of the year....apart from those those spade paddock boots....

 

[flyfishark]

Issh...you are knocking me out with your shoes. Do you have cloven hooves under those socks? Did you make one of the infamous deals with "ole scratch?" You have jumped into a whole new realm of vintage shoes. (I figure that if I lay it on thick enough, you might shove a pair of those shoes in my mouth just to shut me up). Seriously, if I were the envious type, I'd be a shade of deep jade right now. Congrats again.

 

[thunderw21]

1930's Foot Joy Alligator & Suede Cap Toes...

Now you're just teasing us.

Great shoes!

 

[Dinerman]

 

[Dinerman]

 

[flyfishark]

Dinerman...what kind of skin on the Florsheims? And, who made the first pair? I can't make it out. By the way...love the skins

 

[Isshinryu101]

Dinerman...what kind of skin on the Florsheims?

You should know, you've got a pair.

Nova Scotia is King of the Vintage Thrift Shops, it would seem, Dinerman!

 

[flyfishark]

And I thought all they had was salmon

 

[Isshinryu101]

what kind of skin on the Florsheims?

A very rare hide that comes from the now endangered "Plastique Snake". He is a distant relative of the "Faux Bullfrog".

All kidding aside, Florsheim did make some very cool looking faux exotics (as well as a plethora of genuine ones).

 

[flyfishark]

A very rare hide that comes from the now endangered "Plastique Snake". He is a distant relative of the "Faux Bullfrog".

All kidding aside, Florsheim did make some very cool looking faux exotics (as well as a plethora of genuine ones).

I'm gonna start specializing in plastics...I got an eye for them

 

[Dinerman]

Feels like an embossed leather rather than a synthetic.

 

[flyfishark]

Feels like an embossed leather rather than a synthetic.

Dinerman...You'll know you have the "eye" when you can pick up a beauty like these...made, I think, by the cobblers at DuPont.