Admiral, what a lovely piece! It's interesting how we choose to equipt and adorn our lower most extremity has such a connection with the opposite end. How the mind and the feet reflect each other, completes a circle if you see what I mean?
But I guess the truly obsessed would prefer the "real Lobb" in St James' Street to the Dumas family's French Lobb incarnation, albeit the latter does produce a fine shoe. Not a proper old London bootmaker though...
Admiral, what a lovely piece! It's interesting how we choose to equipt and adorn our lower most extremity has such a connection with the opposite end. How the mind and the feet reflect each other, completes a circle if you see what I mean?
ReplyDeleteNice vignette, Codders.
ReplyDeleteBut I guess the truly obsessed would prefer the "real Lobb" in St James' Street to the Dumas family's French Lobb incarnation, albeit the latter does produce a fine shoe. Not a proper old London bootmaker though...
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DE ~ John Lobb ('John Lobb Paris') shoes are made in Northampton; their bespoke line in Paris.
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