I was at my daughter’s basketball game yesterday. McClure Middle School vs Hamilton Middle School. If you happened to be at the game as well, I was the guy wearing vintage brown long wings. Of course. A few years back, I decided that dress shoes weren’t just for work or evenings out. Dress shoes were … Continue reading Foot-So-Port S4691 Long Wing Blucher
I look at eBay often for vintage shoes. Probably too much. I mainly look for shoes in my size but I sometimes look for shoes for various readers of this blog. By request. This searching takes time since there are about 4 million men’s shoes currently on eBay. Of that total, there are about 500,000 … Continue reading eBay Watch List
This week I was trying to release a new section of the blog. But I didn’t finish it. I have been working on the new page but sometimes I get distracted by tweets by someone we all know. Then I read articles of about the tweets. Then the comments section on the articles about the … Continue reading Nettleton Wingtip Balmoral 1231
I had the vcleat.com staff compile all the successful sales in 2016 of new old stock (NOS) Florsheim Shell Cordovan models. There were a few additional NOS listings which never completed and I excluded those. I don’t care about those. Just closed sales. So if you didn’t sell one of these pairs, put that coffee … Continue reading Florsheim Shell Cordovan NOS eBay Sales – Year in Review
Here is a Christmas present to all the vintage shoe fans – the entire Fall 1969 Florsheim Shoe catalog. I broke it up into three posts because it was almost 90 pages and a single post would require a lot of bandwidth (yours and mine). The catalog is nearly 50 years old and gives a … Continue reading Florsheim Shoe Catalog Fall 1969
See Part 3 of the Catalog
We just had our annual Christmas party here at vcleat.com. It went well but the staff seemed disappointed that the bonus this year was an old pair of shoes. They said they were hoping for cash. I told them, “less is more”. I read that somewhere and it sounded good at the time. Sort of … Continue reading Nettleton Traditionals 4063 Shell Cordovan Restore
Agent: Hello, this is the Shell Cordovan hotline Caller: Uh hi. My shoes. They have spots. I was in the rain. Spots or bumps. I am not sure. Can you help? I haven’t been able to get rid of them. I didn’t know it was going to rain. I have been reading a lot posts … Continue reading Shell Cordovan Water Spots
Whew. That was an exhausting week. Where is the reset button? I am moving on. And that means going back in time. To the 1960s. Back when things were good. No conflicts then, right? Everyone got along. I think. Maybe. I can’t remember because I wasn’t born yet. Florsheim decided to enrich this utopian decade … Continue reading Florsheim Imperial Kenmoor 93633 Forest
