Anyone on here write this?

[Kingstonian]

Crompton seems to get lots of posters on his blog now. So he is unlikely to be writing them all himself, probably a considerable number of sockless fans.

Anyway this post about his custom made Graziano loafers caught my eye. Cromps could probably do the soup run in an M65 jacket, wool watch cap and flannels. They can really take a beating and still look good :-

PETER
4 days ago
The term for a shoe cut from one piece of leather is whole cut. Your friends at ‘The Rake’ have made the same mistake. The creasing up of the vamp is due to too high a pitch. If you paid 5000 pounds for this standard of work you must have money to burn. Even Edward Green Top Drawer comes in under 2000 . I think you need to grow up, learn the language do the soup kitchen for a few nights and get a life.

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  SIMON CROMPTON
  3 days ago
  Are you referring to the use of the word ‘seamless’? This is different from a wholecut – it has no seam whatsoever, not even in the back of the shoe, where a wholecut (like the suede ones reviewed here) does.
  
  I’m afraid you simply can’t reach a conclusion like that in regards to fit from just these pictures. You are simplifying.
  
  Value is obviously subjective, but they’re certainly very expensive. And I’ll ignore the last, silly remarks.
  

 

[Jupiter]

Crompton seems to get lots of posters on his blog now. So he is unlikely to be writing them all himself, probably a considerable number of sockless fans.

Anyway this post about his custom made Graziano loafers caught my eye. Cromps could probably do the soup run in an M65 jacket, wool watch cap and flannels. They can really take a beating and still look good :-

PETER
4 days ago
The term for a shoe cut from one piece of leather is whole cut. Your friends at ‘The Rake’ have made the same mistake. The creasing up of the vamp is due to too high a pitch. If you paid 5000 pounds for this standard of work you must have money to burn. Even Edward Green Top Drawer comes in under 2000 . I think you need to grow up, learn the language do the soup kitchen for a few nights and get a life.

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  SIMON CROMPTON
  3 days ago
  Are you referring to the use of the word ‘seamless’? This is different from a wholecut – it has no seam whatsoever, not even in the back of the shoe, where a wholecut (like the suede ones reviewed here) does.
  
  I’m afraid you simply can’t reach a conclusion like that in regards to fit from just these pictures. You are simplifying.
  
  Value is obviously subjective, but they’re certainly very expensive. And I’ll ignore the last, silly remarks.

I noticed there was more and more challenging posts in the comments, some sarcastically courteous, others overtly agressive. Amongst them a minority certainly comes from DW. We must admit he demonstrates a certain phlegm in his answers. A pro top shiller he is.

 

[robertito]

What I notice with crompton is that he only openly criticizes the company that give him the articles FOC. He did it with Ambrosi and Patrick Johnson (quite deserved that one)

Where he pays for part of the goods (unless is what he says) his critics are quite tepid

 

[rdiaz]

So fake. You just can't trust those people. Some articles may be entertaining to read but shouldn't be taken as advice.