The men's dress style thread..

[Profpointy]

Purdey are to shotguns what Rolex are to watches.

I'm not a shooter but I think Purdey would see themselves several grades above that

 

[winjim]

Fair play to you for designing your own boots! Have you applied loads of neutral renovating polish to them? Soon after I get a new pair of shoes/boots I rub renovating polish into the leather. I don't do it straight away as I like to let those creases in the leather appear, then I rub the polish into those 'stress points'.

Small batch produced dubbin from an artisan leather bookbinder.

 

[stephec]

Wasn't a Purdey used to rob a bank in one of the Sweeney films?

 

[Alex321]

I'm not a shooter but I think Purdey would see themselves several grades above that

They might, but I'm not sure that would be justified, given that Rolex are ranked in the top 10 of luxury watch manufacturers by every site I have looked at, some ranking them as high as 2. And I was think as much about brand recognition as about actual quality.

There is only one brand consistently ranked higher that anybody not a watch aficionado is likely to have even heard of - which would be Patek Pilippe.

Purdey may well regard themselves as the shotgun equivalent of Patek Philippe.

And looking up similar shotgun brand rankings, they would probably be right.

 

[FishFright]

Purdey, Rolex and Hardy .. for when you don't know a lot about the items but you you're great on branding.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Purdey are to shotguns what Rolex are to watches.

Heck, that could be quite dangerous, as for every ten Rolex out there nine are fake, so I've been told. Imagine firing a 'fake' shotgun!

 

[T4tomo]

I like big boots and I cannot lie.

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This is a supremely comfortable pair of boots. They're really light and the leather's really soft so not like wearing a big heavy bovver boot. For comparison my monkey boots are about 650g each whereas these are closer to 470g so a big difference. He actually ended up using a size 6.5 last to get the heel right but extended it to the length of a size 8.

I think the blue and brown, while a fairly conservative choice, work well together. Now I need to save up my money and wear out some of my other footwear so I can go back and get some colourful shoes made. Possibly a pair like those in the background.

Liking those, very smart, with attitude!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

So, tell me, why is wearing a blue suit and brown shoes considered a bigger crime against humanity than the Americans nuking Japan, the Holocaust, Pol Pot's Killing fields, Szebenica, Rwanda, Syria, Yemen, Palestine and Donald Trump?

 

[winjim]

So, tell me, why is wearing a blue suit and brown shoes considered a bigger crime against humanity than the Americans nuking Japan, the Holocaust, Pol Pot's Killing fields, Szebenica, Rwanda, Syria, Yemen, Palestine and Jedward?

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[Mad Doug Biker]

So in other words, as I thought, it's largely all a load of pish, decided on by some guy about a hundred years ago?🤔😆

 

[winjim]

So in other words, as I thought, it's largely all a load of pish, decided on by some guy about a hundred years ago?🤔😆

Well I do get the thing about the bright shoes being distracting and pulling the gaze downwards but basically yeah. All fashion is arbitrary though innit?

 

[stephec]

So in other words, as I thought, it's largely all a load of pish, decided on by some guy about a hundred years ago?🤔😆

Standards dear boy, standards.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Well I do get the thing about the bright shoes being distracting and pulling the gaze downwards but basically yeah. All fashion is arbitrary though innit?

Surely the tie does that far more than the shoes? 🤷

 

[winjim]

Surely the tie does that far more than the shoes? 🤷

The tie is an arrow pointing to the crotch.

 

[winjim]

Seriously though, the tie is high up enough to not pull the gaze downwards too much if he had his jacket buttoned up. You don't want your full length to be visible.

Else it does indeed just point to your crotch.