The SF/AAAC/FNB trainwreck thread

fxh said:
Nah yeah nah

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Has anyone ever met Tom? He doesn't come across as very approachable. What is he like?

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Not jealously, that was cultivated out a long time ago. It is about how pitiful it is....the showoff mentality, and consumption machine mentality. I feel sorry for these guys, they are stuck in a bind.

Not a fan of smug blokes prouncing around in bespoke suits like they are kings of the world either. Everytime you type stuff in those guys in bespoke suits come up. Urghh, it is just so icky.

Remember son, l am old school, l am not of the instagram mindset. When you get older you pride yourself on buying less, not more.
 
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The Shooman said:
When you get older you pride yourself on buying less, not more.
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Cut the bs Shooey. We just saw you buy 100 pairs of socks, can't remember how many straw hats, and a bunch of bulletproof trousers. And you have more shoes than most of these blokes combined.
I hate these characters as much as you do, but get off that high horse mate, you're gonna hurt yourself when you fall!
 
belinmad said:
I hate these characters as much as you do,
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Yeah, but l don't do the showoff mentality and enter doodle measuring contests like they all do. I remember one famous poster saying he knew far more about shirts because he had 500 Kiton shirts where-as the other guy had only 50. It is a really bad look for well dressed men, and l don't think people should be that way.
 
belinmad said:
can't remember how many straw hats,
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You'll probably laugh your boobs off (t*ts), but l am getting this next week. Have been waiting 7 months to get it. A real BIG daddy panama....a fairdinkum boss man hat (I wear it with a suit and roar my head off at all the igents). Can't wait to get it.

44 second video, well worth watching. I'll own this next week.
 
Here is a very likable and memorable character called `bespoke addict'. He was the guy l once posted who ironed his shoos. He has 100 pairs of old George Cleverley bespokes among hundreds of other old bespokes.

Here he is up to new tricks. He tries to fix old Cleverley shoes to make them flatter, so he puts the shoes in a special contraption and bolts them down to a wooden board. He puts in many thousands of hours into fixing old shoes, even spending months moisturising them,and hours restitching them.



One of my favourites where he rides his bike with 1960's bespoke George Cleverley Russian calf shoos.


What a gem of a man.
 
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The Shooman said:
His best video, when he irons his shoos.


You'll never meet another man like him, not even in another million years.
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Interesting. But
what about the easier method that we used as kids to shrink jeans to fit snugly as was the fashion then? We got into a bath of cold water and after lying there for an hour lay under a blistering sun to dry the jeans.

Why not advise the guy to try that with his floppy shoes?
 
Here he is with a house full of old bespoke shoos and crocodile bags he wants to sell. Classic bespoke addict video, and a true addict.
 
belinmad said:
How does your collection compare to his, Shooey?
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I remember once trying to do a photograph of them out in the yard, but after hours and hours of pulling them out and filling up the yard they couldn't all fit in the photo and l gave up (a day wasted). I never count them either because that would prove too difficult....shoos are like above, hidden for years in every nook and cranny in my shoo room behind layers and layers of shoos. How does mine compare to his?...it is difficult to say. Mine are like his, collected over decades...sometimes 20 pairs a year, and other times less.

I really like how he pulls out old bespokes from under the cabinet he had long forgotten about or how he finds old alligator cases and bags he has forgotten about. That is only a fraction of his collection.

I have bunches of Florsheim v cleat imperials, some of them NOS that l can't even find, old vintage pairs, along with numerous R.M.Williams and many other shoos. My jumpers are more organised, but if l want to find a certain jumper it may take a long time to go through them and find it. I can well relate to how bespoke addict does things.
 
I had big shoo aspirations even as a kid. My ultimate goal was to own lassy-doo-bah shoos (very plain highend shoos all handmade from the finest materials that have no rivals).

Here is a classic Lassy-doo-bah shoo:
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another Lassy-doo-bah
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another Lassy-Doo-Bah, but not in the league of the true lassy-doo-bah that has little decoration. A Lassy-doo-Bah must be all handmade.
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I also got into porridge jaw shoos in the early 2000s. Here is a classic porridge jaw shoo. None-the-less l am still a Lassy-doo-bah man at heart and always have been.
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I am currently eyeing off a few Lassy-doo-bahs....but they are gonna set me back $$$$. :omg:
 
Who is this guy, anyone know anything about him?

The Anderson & Sheppard Expatriates Thread

A few Steed examples off of IG. I really don't get how the first one is even allowed to go out, much less featured as an example of work to highlight. The second suffers from the same problem, which is that at the end of the day they seem to have a lot of difficulty in constructing their...
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The Shooman said:
Who is this guy, anyone know anything about him?

The Anderson & Sheppard Expatriates Thread

A few Steed examples off of IG. I really don't get how the first one is even allowed to go out, much less featured as an example of work to highlight. The second suffers from the same problem, which is that at the end of the day they seem to have a lot of difficulty in constructing their...
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The guy in the picture is not the OP. That is a client of Steed.

LordSuperb = Algernon Crisp here. He has been AWOL.
 
Clicked through a link to Styfo on my desktop imac with all my ublock origin filters on, dark reader, and zoom and this is what hit me:

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^^^

things are a real mess know. Why?

- clutter on the front page
- huge threads with thousands of replies

But they have to do it like that or else the forums will die out. The early excitement of forums has long gone. Now it is soulless.
 
Here is a highlight from our mate bespoke addict,

Riding his bike in John Lobb bespoke alligator shoos. There willnever be another man like Bespoke Addict ever again in the history of the world.



and riding his bike in 1960's Cleverley bespoke


What a national treasure of a man.
 
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Yes, he wears other people's bespoke,and he has tonnes of it. He has piles of Savile Row bespoke, over 100 pairs of Cleverley bespoke,tonnes of BIG Johnny Lobb bespoke etc. If the old shoos are dry he'll spend 4 months moisterising them,if they are too big he will iron the leather until the shoos shrink down to size, if they are too big he will stretch them.

I like him because he is a good guy, is heavily into shoos like no-one else in the world (totally addicted) and he thoroughly enjoys himself, ie, he lives for it. He is a national treasure because has a good kind manner about him, and he doesn't show his collection out of ego, ie, he is of the old school mindset where he posts his things to celebrate his love for such well made things.

Lee Morrison (bespoke addict) is the most interesting guy on instagram because of the vintage stuff he has amassed and the extraordinary amount of work he puts into reviving his bespoke finds.

Another interesting guy on instagram is Sole Preacher. Totally self obsessed, huge ego, worst taste in shoos in the world. Worth looking at occasionally because it is interesting how people with horrendous taste spend their money.
 
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