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Tuesday, April 5. 2016

Shoes For Industry


A visit to the Alden Shoe factory in Middleborough, MA.


They make excellent shoes and they have many widths which matters to me with my narrow feets. They are sold in NYC and a few other places. They also make the Brooks Brothers-branded shoes, but not the Brooks English shoes.


Good affordable lifetime shoes for formal, dress-casual, and other. Impossible to wear 'em out, because they will refurbish them for you at their factory regardless of their condition. Fine old shoes with some sign of age and use are cool, trustworthy. Wear your good shoes all the time and you will never go wrong.


I do not wish to be judged by my tires, but I am told that people sort-of do, sometimes. Sheesh. Well, it might be preferable to judging me by the content of my character...


A friend recently told me that he dragged a junior associate to the Alden place in NYC before an important business meeting. Threw the associate's shoes in the trash, and bought him an appropriate new pair. Job training. First impressions matter, rightly or wrongly. If you're a genius, maybe not -  but even Einstein deliberately cultivated his wacky flair to attract girls.

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Shoes for the dead!
(did you really think we'd miss a Firesign Theatre callback?)
#1 BlogDog on 2016-04-05 18:42 (Reply)
If you are an outdoorsman you need to take a look at Russell boots. Hand made. Custom made. Send them your measurements (or see them at Safari Club in Las Vegas, or better yet, visit their shop in Berlin, Wisconsin, and they will take the measurements for you), select your style, construction, leather, color, soles, etc. Pay them a modest amount of money (quality isn't cheap) and wait a few months. Their moccasin style construction cradles your feet. The best I have found. I have their Bird Shooters and Traveling Sportsman boots... Hope to never be without.
#2 Snow Goose on 2016-04-05 19:04 (Reply)
I have Allen edmonds (Wisconsin) which have lasted almost forever. And they will redo the shoe (soles, heels and everything else for about 80 bucks)

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#3 ns on 2016-04-05 21:23 (Reply)
I'm with you on Allen-Edmonds. I've got two pairs but when I tried to order on-line to be sent to me in South Korea I found that the tariff on a pair of dress boots was $143!
#3.1 Whitehall on 2016-04-05 23:04 (Reply)
I may get thrown off Maggie's Farm for this, but son, most of the pickups I've owned over the past 40+ years have cost less than a pair of those leisure Alden shoes. Hahahaha--I've bought a couple houses and one business with down payments less than that!
#4 Gene on 2016-04-05 21:58 (Reply)
Ha! If they throw you out, then I'll be right behind you. Most of those shoes are more than my monthly house payment.
#4.1 Jack Walter on 2016-04-05 23:20 (Reply)
funny.

but everybody needs at least one good pair of shoes
#4.1.1 Bird Dog on 2016-04-06 12:14 (Reply)
Alden shoes are my favorite American-made shoe, but the last time I was in their NYC store, I was very disappointed by the salesman I dealt with, who seemed quite the hustler. But I've had very good luck in their San Francisco store, and ordering them from Ben Silver. The quality of the shoe is excellent; Google around and you can find some offbeat designs they make in small runs for select stores, such as Union Made in San Francisco.

http://unionmadegoods.com/brands/alden/?posts_per_page=96
#5 Edward Driscoll (Link) on 2016-04-05 22:30 (Reply)
How about shoes for WOMEN with narrow feet?
#6 Frances on 2016-04-06 00:23 (Reply)
See, and they say such things aren't made in America anymore. Of course, if one isn't wealthy, then if we were stuck with just American made shoes, the poor would be barefoot.

Shoes have been available to the wealthy for millennia, but it was the rise of capitalism that brought shoes to the poor.

QUOTE:
The advantages of capitalism are not for the benefit and advantage of the capitalists, but for the benefit of the masses. Capitalism is primarily production, large-scale production, for the masses.

von Mises, Ludwig (2010-12-08). Marxism Unmasked (LvMI)
#7 JK Brown on 2016-04-06 09:08 (Reply)
Indiana Jones shoes.

No kidding, Alden made the 'work boots' that former carpenter Harrison Ford wore in Indiana Jones. Good shoes from all I hear - hard to buy out here in flyover country.

http://www.shermanbrothers.com/product.php?ItemId=5027&ProductId=7869
#8 Carl H on 2016-04-07 01:25 (Reply)

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