Bad Vs Quality Dress Shoes Construction | Cementing Vs Blake Stitch Vs Goodyear Welt | Shoe Design 

I do! Now that I'm back home I'm trying to get back into research mode......

Hey Antonio, what is the current theme song of your videos called?

Real Men Real Style. I just ordered my first pare of ace marks 😊😊😊

Thanks for enlightening me with knowledge.

My must expensive now, long time didn't invest on shoes: a 90$ shoes gift from my brother.. Poor me, living in China is so expensive and I'm building my future here..

Absolutely right. The style is called closed channel stitching.

Shrink1061 yeah he is just selling us acemarks at this point lost my respect for him

Though it is true that the resolability of a blake stitch shoe is *likely* shorter than that of a goodyear welt for lacking a welt. You are being disingenuous when you assert that there is no aesthetic advantage. Though you can buy thousand dollar Gaziano and Girlings ....that have a very tight goodyear welt and relatively thin profile you are paying for that with a price that's 5 times a shoe that would have the exact same leather quality (full grain calf skin is the pinnacle here) for just barely the same or better (it's physics less material in the construction means thinner profile potential) aesthetics. Also because there is less material in the bulk of the soul of a blake stitched shoe they tend to be more flexible right out the box and lighter in weight, needing much less break in time. For some people these are must have attributes in a shoe. This is one reason for example why though I think the uppers are great on some Allen Edmonds I think that the aesthetics of the good year welted sole is just not at all to my taste on that and many other brands.... too thick compared to the generally svelte profile of a blake stitched shoe. That said, I would like to see an experiment where a good year welt and a blake stitch shoe are subjected to a continuous set of re-soles just to see if or when one or the other weakens in the sole stitching over time as you surmised. Additionally, if you are concerned about re-solability of a single pair of shoes in my view you don't have enough shoes. You should have in my view at least 4 pair of shoes that you rotate through wearing and maintaining. Doing this reduces the total number of wears per month or year and extends the life of each shoe dramatically. Assuming you don't wear dress shoes every day , at 4 pair you are sure to have each shoe run for at least a decade before needing a resole (longer if you put in sole protectors before wearing)...be it blake or goodyear stitched If you wear them more often you can simply buy more...and thus automatically wear each less and thus extend the life further and so making moot further your subjective arguments..

@@DavidSaintloth thank you for responding on behalf of Blake stitched shoes. I was wondering why the original commenter was so condescending towards Blake stitched shoes... then I saw his insert about his likely $1,000+ gaziano and girling shoes. Obviously you are going to get higher quality shoes when you pay 5x as much like you mentioned, but again that is mostly marginal as you can get very nice quality Blake stitched shoes for under or around $200 now (Beckett Simonon). I also like that you mentioned taking care of your shoes can help them last up to a decade before needing a resole, so even if Blake stitched shoes can only be resolved 1-2 times (even though good quality Blake stitched shoes can be resoled 3-4 times) you are still looking at 20-30 years out of the shoe. I don’t think anyone who paid $200-300 for a pair of shoes is going to be all that upset when they have to stop wearing them in 30 years.

My point exactly!

Thanks for sharing your preference!

yup nothing more than a biased commercial.

Australian made

Australian made

Constantine - this should help: www.realmenrealstyle.com/?s=college

Glad you find it useful.

I'm glad you know your way through my channel! I appreciate that!

Thank you Rafael! I'm glad you find it useful!

Super!

Thanks for the support - Appreciate it!

Which videos do you think are clickbaity?

Thank you!

You're welcome!

mida42 these are the type of comments that should be made... not some random trolls by people all over RU-vid. Good to know you are still learning Sir. Have a good day

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Awesome to know it helps! Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching!

Really appreciate that Jonas!

That's awesome to know Jacob!

Exactly! Invest in quality and it will last longer.

Allen Edmonds make good stuff! The one store of their's I have been in was great too. Really knowledgeable sales people, which is super refreshing change from the typical shoe store where the employees know nothing at all about what they are selling.

The sales person I dealt with had 25 years of experience. She had a lot of good comments about the shoes, and why they should be fitted as they were.

I love Allen Edmonds. Classic and last forever.

Just bought $500 aud made in England doc martens on sale for $300 AUD. $500 is worth it cause these will last me at least five years and ten+ with care. But $300 is a steal! How can you turn that down

Main reason why you hear Italian shoes more often is the price. British shoes tend to run more costly than Italian, but the Anglo-Saxon/British shoes are lovely. I practically drooled over a pair of Crockett and Jones's recently. My bad the Cheaney's were the much cheaper pair of British shoes that I liked as well :D.

What brand is it?

Real Men Real Style no Idea! any markings on it have been worn off.

You're most welcome!

You're welcome! Glad you like that little bit of info :)

Real Men Real Style omg thanku Antonio for ur rply..this is my second ever comment on a youtube video..and i got a rply from u ! amazing.. i watch all ur videos regularly, will b commenting regularly on ur videos from now on

Shoes can make or break an outfit and since they tend to take a lot more wear than other clothing items, it's good to get quality ones.

It's said that the shoe makes the outfit. And the outfit makes the man. So the shoe must truly make it all.

Great to hear!

Definitely

English hand made

MrVinceChannel real men wear hand welted shoes

What do you mean? Young guys who wear sneaker are not men?

Real real man wears Norwegian storm welt

Glad you did! Thanks too!

Welcome!

Awesome!

Great timing! Congratulations too! :)

Sounds great!