I went to Uniqlo yesterday for the first time in a very long while. I wasn’t really looking for jeans but I spotted these, which looked much nicer than the rest of the styles (and they have a lot of styles). I was in the market for a new pair anyway and since my usual [...]
We have been sold out of the Keep Calm and Carry on tote bags for a while, due to the fact that our supplier was out of stock until now. We’ve received a new delivery of Navy and for the first time, Red. Keep Calm and Carry on Canvas Tote Bags $45
I can’t begin to count how many men have told me they haven’t had their feet measured since they were kids. Not really surprising considering these days you’re lucky just to find someone to get a pair of shoes for you in most shoe departments I would venture to say that many stores don’t even [...]
On July 20, 1969 a 12 year old boy in the suburbs of Detroit along with his friends and family watched in utter fascination as Neil Armstrong became the fist man to step foot on the surface of the moon. Many events have come and gone since that warm July evening in 1969, and we [...]
I wanted to share this letter I received from our client who lives in Singapore. He contacted me via email and placed an MTO for a pair of Corthay Arca’s in Black, which we sent on to him in Singapore. Dear Steven, The shoes were in last week and I was trying them on. Excellent [...]
Bob Bogle who you may ask. He and his friend Don Wilson were co-founders of the Tacoma Washington band The Ventures, forerunners of the “surf sound” in the early sixties. It makes you wonder if there would have been a Dick Dale or The Beach Boys if it weren’t for that Fender Stratocaster played by [...]
Yogi Berra, the great Hall of Fame catcher for the New York Yankees has given us many quirky quotes, but last nights wild ending of the game between the Yankees and the Mets was a testament to one of his best, “It ain’t over till it’s over”. I liked the way A Rod slammed his [...]
In the late late sixties and early seventies white patent leather was “the” summer shoe. I can’t say the same holds true today. I’m a product of the sixties and a huge fan of the music it created. One of my favorites is the break out reggae/ska songs,“ The Israelites” by Desmond Dekker. Check out [...]
Written in a POW camp in Mongolia at great peril to his life by a Bataan Death March survivor. A soldier is a nobody; we hear lots of people say. He is the outcast of the world and always in the way. We admit there are bad ones from the Army to the Marines, But [...]
The new LAST Magazine Volume 13 is now available in the U.S at Kinokuniya bookstore in New York. The cover of the issue features a pair of Gaziano & Girling Cambridge in Vintage Oak or Espresso Calf on the MH71 last. One interesting item are the shoelaces, which are normally round. These are flat which [...]
Punched toe medallions come in many variations and each shoemaker has their own unique version or versions. See if you can match these medallions with its maker: Alden, Artioli, Aubercy, Church’s, Edward Green, Gaziano & Girling. #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9
Now that spring has “just” arrived so has the bane of many New Yorkers existence, the generic “Street Fair”. They’re the same wherever they set up in the city and do nothing for the neighborhood or the businesses. In fact all they do is create a trash and traffic mess. Selling cheap food and goods [...]
