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• Crockett & Jones
  Peccary (American Wild Boar)
  Ventilated Full Wing-Tip, Brogue
  “Spectator”
  for
  Polo – Ralph Lauren
  Euro 380

       The actual colour of the mesh vamp (Rist) is cream, a lovely contrast to the Brown Peccary body of the shoe.
  The actual history of the two-tone derives from the late 1800s, when gentleman wore protective spats or gaiters over their shoes. The theory is that the look of light coloured spats against dark coloured shoes became incorporated into the shoe itself. The Prince of Wales, perhaps the greatest trendsetter of men’s styles of the Twentieth Century, wore spectators while golfing. The privileged classes on both sides of the Atlantic quickly took up this innovation. Fred Astaire, another great and famous fashion plate added glamour to the Spectator in a series of films, and no sub-culture was more a clientele of the Spectator than the dandified and, literally, well-heeled gangster culture of the ’30s. Whatever the vectors of its dissemination, the Spectator enjoyed wide popularity in the 1920’s and 1930’s, with only dwindled in the 1950’s.

  Size Details

  US 9.5D..…UK 8.5E….Continental 42.5D, for the medium width foot.

  Condition

  Excellent; appears to have been worn a few times only.

• Crockett & Jones
  Peccary (American Wild Boar)
  Ventilated Full Wing-Tip, Brogue
  “Spectator”
  for
  Polo – Ralph Lauren

  Si vous êtes intéressé par les plus grandes références dans le domaine de la chaussure de luxe pour homme de fabrication artisanale, par les noms des ateliers les plus traditionnels, et, en particulier, l’exceptionnel – mais en France trop peu connu – bottier américain FLORSHEIM, n’hésitez pas à me consulte. Etant donné que mes textes figurant sont pour la plupart rédigés en anglais ou en allemand, je répondrais volontiers de manière plus détaillée à vos questions en français, en vous demandant de montrer de l’indulgence pour mon français approximatif.

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