Grenson
for
Charles Tyrwhitt
92 Jermyn Street, London SW1
Classic Medallion Toe Wholecut Oxford
Euro 460  Euro 380

Charles Tyrwhitt is a well known shirt maker located at 92 Jermyn Street London SW1. Their major business is mail-order of good and price-worthy shirts and shoes but they maintain a Jermyn Street shop located, as it is, in the heart of London’s most elegant shopping district, rubbing shoulders with Turnbull & Asser, Alfred Dunhill, Thomas Pink, Hilditch & Key, John Lobb, Church’s, Edward Green, Crockett & Jones, New & Lingwood and WS Foster & Son, to name but a few of the luminaries of gentlemen’s furnishings located there. Befitting this august company, Tyrwhitt purveys only their superior premium lines in the Jermyn Street shop. The present shoe is such an example. Unlike many of their shoes provided by Alfred Sargent and Loake, these and their other boots and shoes for the Jermyn Street shop are made by Crockett or, as in this case, with excellent results, by Grenson.

These are not to be confused with Tyrwhitt’s line of lesser off-shore made products for their on-line business.

The shoes shown here are a finely-made full grain calfskin classic Wholecut with an elegant medallion toe, a style and model, because of the difficulty of producing a shoe employing only one piece of leather for the uppers, most often encountered in bespoke shoes. The elegance of this shoe cannot be overstated. The medallion notwithstanding, I would wear these even with dinner clothes.