Alden split-toe bluchers in Color #8 shell cordovan (2210, Aberdeen last). The split-toe blucher is one of Alden's canonical shoes (although I think that Nettleton invented the style rather than Alden), and in shell cordovan, it's a legitimate classic. The picture and my shoes are from the Alden Shop in San Francisco, whose proprietor, Alan White, is another of the good guys in the shoe business. I saw this same model in whiskey shell cordovan at the Alden Shop on Madison Avenue in New York this past March, and it was a fantastic shoe. Unfortunately, they did not have it in my size; and they said that they had been waiting two years for fill-ins. Whiskey shell cordovan is not very common, you see.
Friday, July 6, 2007
Today's Shoes
Alden split-toe bluchers in Color #8 shell cordovan (2210, Aberdeen last). The split-toe blucher is one of Alden's canonical shoes (although I think that Nettleton invented the style rather than Alden), and in shell cordovan, it's a legitimate classic. The picture and my shoes are from the Alden Shop in San Francisco, whose proprietor, Alan White, is another of the good guys in the shoe business. I saw this same model in whiskey shell cordovan at the Alden Shop on Madison Avenue in New York this past March, and it was a fantastic shoe. Unfortunately, they did not have it in my size; and they said that they had been waiting two years for fill-ins. Whiskey shell cordovan is not very common, you see.
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