The SF/AAAC/FNB trainwreck thread

[belinmad]

. Worth looking at occasionally because it is interesting how people with horrendous taste spend their money.

 

[doghouse]

He wears other people’s bespoke

Oh, he's one of those olo

 

[Dropbear]

Oh, he's one of those olo

Alpha af, bro!

 

[Sammy Ambrose]

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I often wonder what it was that made that strange design pop into the head of the shoe-maker. Was he also doing a bit of woodwork and one day found himself standing on a plank? Or did he simply find straight cuts much easier than the creation of curves? Or had there been floods and the notion of creating a mini shoe-raft sudddenly occur to him?

Any other suggestions?

 

[belinmad]

I often wonder what it was that made that strange design pop into the head of the shoe-maker. Was he also doing a bit of woodwork and one day found himself standing on a plank? Or did he simply find straight cuts much easier than the creation of curves? Or had there been floods and the notion of creating a mini shoe-raft sudddenly occur to him?

Any other suggestions?

Trying to develop a minecraft-native clientele?

 

[Thruth]

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The Shooman , and I am asking this seriously, net time you are chatting with Lattanzi, ask him about this type of toe. Or maybe you know it is used across brands.

 

[The Shooman]

The Shooman , and I am asking this seriously, net time you are chatting with Lattanzi, ask him about this type of toe. Or maybe you know it is used across brands.

What about the toe?

Anyway, it is a porridge-jaw shoo made from Branchini, but it is copied from Lattanzi.

 

[Thruth]

What about the toe?

Anyway, it is a porridge-jaw shoo made from Branchini, but it is copied from Lattanzi.

The fugly Italian square toe especially in conjunction with norvegse

 

[The Shooman]

The fugly Italian square toe especially in conjunction with norvegse

Remember back in the day Thruth ,shoos with that bold toe were considered attention grabbing and highly desirable. Remember when shoes were quite boring for many years; then came the square toe, then came the pointed toe, then came the turned up toe, and then came white shoes with turned upshoos in Australia considered the height of sartorial splender. Those shoes grabbed people's attention. Ugly shoes with lots of seems also grabbed people's attention and was a relief from the conservative shoes so many people's father's and grandfathers wore. Those heavily stitched porridge-jaw shoos were also a breakout from the traditional shoos and attention grabbing. That is what it is all about Thruth.

I spoke to a shoe designer and pattern maker about all these things. He knows the trends and industry well. It was all about getting away from the old traditional styles and doing something new. Traditional styles sold very poorly for years, and Berluti and John Lobb understood this, and is why they made crazy shoes and ditched their old classic models. Then one day people got sick of the turned up toes and heavily seemed shoos and went back to traditional styles....why??.....the forums and blogs IMO. Shoemaking got fashionable and people started making great classic shoes again, and people got knowledgeable about shoes by reading the internet.

Lattanzi doesn't do so much of the classic porridge-jaw shoos with the snouts anymore, but Stefano Branchini has always done it and is master of the porridge-jaw shoo. Paolo Scafora also does porridge-jaw shoos, but not in the league of Branchini.

 

[The Shooman]

Also....

look at how many makers do norvegese these days. It doesn't matter if it is poorly done with wide stitches (95% of makers). People see all that stitching and consider the shoes the top of the top and buy them. It is a great selling gimmick and has a blind following from an army of buyers. But still, most makers don't make norvegese, so those gimmick makers have enough market to sell to uneducated shoo nerds who don't know any different.

 

[Streetlight]

I get it now. He wears other people’s bespoke

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Respoke isn't it? Something that Swedish diplomat in Geneva did.

 

[belinmad]

Also....

look at how many makers do norvegese these days. It doesn't matter if it is poorly done with wide stitches (95% of makers). People see all that stitching and consider the shoes the top of the top and buy them. It is a great selling gimmick and has a blind following from an army of buyers. But still, most makers don't make norvegese, so those gimmick makers have enough market to sell to uneducated shoo nerds who don't know any different.

I'm always amazed at how deeply you can grasp market dynamics just from the middle of nowhere, Aussieland, and from a bunch of igents and forum.
Impressive

 

[belinmad]

 

[The Shooman]

He is trying very hard to be cool, but at 40, why do you need to? Even if he did dress cool, does he know how to naturally act cool?...that is the real question. Why doesn't he just be comfortable in his own skin.

 

[doghouse]

.that is the real question.

Is that really a question though?