I can’t be arsed with all that, just bought some Cheaneys in the sale online.
If the prices weren’t mad enough, what in the name of feckity, feck is Snuff Suede when it is not a particularly unpleasant pornographic film?
Bollocks.
The stuff that nobody wants!
Keep up!
Not in the field of madly price clown boots.
Saw them at Reading festival 1975
(For a change that is a true reference!)
Any good?
I don’t remember a lot of the weekend but they did stand out,
Any one who can sing “I’m gonna cut my liver out and stuff it in your face” tends to be remembered especially as this was pre-punk.
Thanks for that.
So basically it’s the usual business of discontinued lines at small discounts, and seconds (albeit very good seconds).
And you have to go to the shop and see what they’ve actually got.
E’ed up they are not. The customer register isn’t even shared between the (very few) shops. Someone at a high level doesn’t believe in technology.
Because someone that makes shoes by hand would be expected to be?
Much as they’d like you to believe that they are wizened gnomes toiling over their workbenches for the pure love of their craft, they are a luxury goods company in 2017.
The whole “I can’t be bothered to keep track of my stock, you’ll have to schlep around and find what I’ve got and where it is because you really, really want to give me money” attitude pisses me off royally.
I’ve spent a heck of a lot of money with C&J over the years, and their customer experience is getting worse, not better. I’ve recently had a couple of run-ins with incredibly snotty staff in their Jermyn Street and Burlington Arcade branches, to the point where I’ve (gasp!) started buying shoes elsewhere, which kind of speaks for itself.
So the short answer to your question would be: if they want to survive, yes. They really need to sort themselves out.
There’s a surprise! That’s the whole reason for shops in Burlington Arcade etc; so that folks with money to burn can pay well over the odds for some safe’n’sensible stuff, and the added value is that they feel that the shop has done them a favour. No doubt they’re well made, but I wouldn’t want well-made boring, square establishment suit shoes!
Saying that, when I was a poncey goth back in the ATs I used to buy my fags there - Sullivan Powell Private Stock; they tasted just like B&H, but came in a burgundy hinged box with gold embossing, and every time I lit one up I felt better because they’d lengthened my life by costing the same as 2 B&H. Which meant I smoked half as much!
Time for a bit of shoe shilling. £50 off orders with my referral code:
Pieces. Ffs
Shitty GWR train / poncy shoe watch, week one bazillion.
Cordovan brogues, double soled.
Sadly no dodgy corduroy this week.
Our new house doesn’t have under floor heating, so I have come to the conclusion that a pair of slippers are required. Anyone know of anything that doesn’t make someone look like an octogenarian?
Haflinger.
lined crocs
Nope, it’s pretty much goes with the territory. You can kid yourself but if you wear slippers you are only a slip or a trip away from a care home