White's Boots
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I got mine in the UK about 5 days after they shipped.
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I got mine in the UK about 5 days after they shipped.
how much was the shipping mate?…
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$47 if I remember correctly.
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I have the Bakers/ Whites Oxford and I love them. The actual Bakers Oxford is made by Nicks I think, so the quality should be spot on.
I don't have any experience of OSB, maybe G or Seul could offer an opinion?
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Hi. I have only recently discovered White's boots and am thinking of ordering a pair. (After wearing my cap toe chippewas for over a decade.) It is hard to tell on the Baker's or White's sites exactly how the various leathers will look, so I wonder if anyone can help, either with advice or pics.
I am interested in Black (or maybe the dark Brown dress, which look pretty close to Black), but am not sure which leather. Any feedback or pics on Black Smooth versus Black Chromexcel versus Black Horse Hide versus Black/Brown Dress?
Thanks.
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Of those leathers I would go with either black or brown dress. It is a beautiful, tough leather, which holds a good shine and ages really well. Chromexcel ages quite quickly, smooth is good but less versatile and does not ages as well (in my opinion), and horse is quite expensive. Whites dress leather is simply amazing.
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Different animals IMO. I have the OSB's and they are great quality but definitely a little less rugged than Baker's Oxfords would be.
I will agree with this. I only have the OSBs but I'm sure about this…
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Different animals IMO. I have the OSB's and they are great quality but definitely a little less rugged than Baker's Oxfords would be.
this. I have both, and the OSB's are almost like slippers. The Oxfords are def. more hefty, more along the lines of a low top boots
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cool, Chris, I would like to know more about that.
Turns out the guy I was thinking about closed down his business and is now the Head Lastmaker at Nike. Found a video of the system he was working on, though.
Based on the date, I'm going to guess that nothing ever came of it, unfortunately.
I happen to know the makers of the scanner and software system, which is sold as "light beam". They are called Corpus-e (http://www.corpus-e.com/e/index.html) and are very much alive and in business. The technology is used for prosthetics and for sports shoes. Especially ski boots are customized based on that data, as well as golf, hiking, cycling and (soon) running shoes. There are a number of shops in Europe and also two or three in the US (2 of them in Aspen to be precise) equipped with it.
The point of the whole approach is to first do inside scans of shoes, then scan feet and match them with the best fitting shoe, plus indicate possible optimizations. Theoretically you could also cnc or 3D-print an individual last based on that data, in order to make fully custom shoes in a traditional manner, but AFAIK that hasn't been done so far.
