Marc Chevalier
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Time to move away from wool and memorialize leather, before it leaves my closet and goes to eBay.
These cap-toe spectator shoes are from the late 1930s. Made of calfskin by "Crosby Square Shoes", a high-end U.S. company. The shoes' vamps are ventilated.
Three unusual details:
-- They're brown and dark tan. It's quite difficult to find spectators with dark tan in them.
-- As for the brown, it has a beautifully burnished, very shiny patina (which the photos don't begin to capture, alas). Spectator shoes with a brown burnished patina are extremely unusual ... you almost never find them outside of Great Britain.
-- Nice Deco zigzag stitching on the cap-toe, too.
The size is 8 1/2 D. Condition is extremely good.
Time to move away from wool and memorialize leather, before it leaves my closet and goes to eBay.
These cap-toe spectator shoes are from the late 1930s. Made of calfskin by "Crosby Square Shoes", a high-end U.S. company. The shoes' vamps are ventilated.
Three unusual details:
-- They're brown and dark tan. It's quite difficult to find spectators with dark tan in them.
-- As for the brown, it has a beautifully burnished, very shiny patina (which the photos don't begin to capture, alas). Spectator shoes with a brown burnished patina are extremely unusual ... you almost never find them outside of Great Britain.
-- Nice Deco zigzag stitching on the cap-toe, too.
The size is 8 1/2 D. Condition is extremely good.
