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Vintage Spectator Shoes

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A pair of Nunn Bush specs. It's March...time to bring this thread back!

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here's a nice photo I stumbled across on the internet:
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Those are both beautiful and unusual for the following reasons:

1. The deep captoe with the bulbous "French Toecap". Very sharp.

2. The heel counter treatment and how it runs sharply at an acute angle making almost an interstices (yes!) with the front treatment going the other way. Unusual and very striking.

3. The 50s style white stitching on the welt. A great look with the contrasting white vamp.

4. The nice lacing treatment.

5. Dark infil on the brogue punching on white vamp and white punching on dark heel counter. Smashing contrast detail.

6. The amount of thought the designer put in trying to outdo the standard look.
 
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The interesting thing would be to know what colours they were on this shoe: maybe a cream and reddish brown combination?
I don't think it's white, simply because it is too different to the colour on the trousers.
 

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The interesting thing would be to know what colours they were on this shoe: maybe a cream and reddish brown combination?
I don't think it's white, simply because it is too different to the colour on the trousers.

I was just thinking that. What is the link? They embody all the best of the early 50s style that broke away from the tighter, narrower lasts of the 30s/40s into 1950s Comfort World with some generous toe space. Yet they say they are 1930s/40s. Just show you can be wrong at picking the era sometimes. I would love to copy these.
 
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