Anthony Delos

[dopey]

To make myself feel worse, I dug up this picture of the Cleverly RTW version:

I was reminded that one of the things I liked about the Flusser/Green and also, now, the Cleverly model is the pinking next to the punching on the apron seam. The Dover style hand stitching would also make for a nice apron.

I hope you will post pictures when yours are done. This is really a beautiful design. I don't think it is in the cards for me, though, so I will have to vicariously enjoy yours.

[dopey]

. . . In general, I only wear loafers with pretty casual coat and tie and not to the office. . . .

Never say never.

When I was getting dressed this morning, I realized I was without my orthotics. I had been keepingmy new bespoke shoes in the office to wear for a few hours at a time, but yesterday, I forgot to take them off and wore them home. The shoes I had worn to work that morning, which had my orthotics in them, were still at the office. The only other shoes I had at home with built in orthotics are the classic Alden Leisure Handsewn loafers that Moulded Shoe had modified for me. I assembled the rest of my dress accordingly, though, and am wearing a burlap Brooks Brothers OCBD with a blazer, light cotton pants (a pale sea island glen check from Paul Stuart in shades of gray, coral and cream) and a J.Press rough silk/linen striped tie. In for a penny, in for a pound as someone might say.

So I here I am, wearing loafers in the office and egg on my face.

[rjman]

My shoes are done, and now just the trees are being worked on, so I should be able to collect the whole enchilada at the end of the month.

In the meantime, Delos' photo du mois is of my shoes being worked on:

http://www.anthonydelos.com/3.aspx

[jcusey]

My shoes are done, and now just the trees are being worked on, so I should be able to collect the whole enchilada at the end of the month.

What are you doing for the trees? Standard functional-but-ugly or something more attractive?

[rjman]

What are you doing for the trees? Standard functional-but-ugly or something more attractive?

Delos offers either what the French call "beaver tail" trees or normal trees. Just getting the normal ones. I don't find them ugly.

[rjman]

Update: Shoes ready for pick up on Friday. Can't wait... Remind me to bring camera...

[rjman]

Picked up my Delos shoes today. I get pretty bashful breaking out the camera when I go on these jaunts, so I took my pictures at home. Delos' collaborator M. Boudoux was there as well, a genial man and a semi-retired women's shoemaker. First off, Anthony presented me with a belt matching the moccasins. It's beautifully made and in Ardilla calf:



The buckle is silvertoned and quite elegant.

Delos next showed me my shoes and told me to break them in bit by bit -- wearing them first for only several hours, a bit like how one is not supposed to drive a sports car at high speed for the first few hundred miles. The shoes are very handsome:



I apologize for the flash washing out the colors in the pictures. The shoes are handsomely antiqued and the waist beautifully sculpted. I'll try to take more pictures that don't flash out the details tomorrow:



Delos suggested that he could add further antiquing to the apron and other areas once I brought them back after a few wearings (I wanted to get them home and try them out!).

[Huzir]

An elegant commission and a lovely execution thereof. Congratulations!

[rjman]

Thanks. A couple more pictures in natural light, and then I'm gonna start breaking these babies in.









I think these pictures show the bevelling and fiddling more clearly than last night's washed out pictures.

[mpolanthan]

I should have noticed this on the Delos web site, but I was surprised to see the strap extend all the way to the sole. Still, very nice shoes and thanks for the pictures and report.

[jcusey]

Thanks for the pics and the reports, rjman. I have enjoyed them tremendously. I will be expecting similar reports for Berluti, Dmitri Gomez, Lobb Paris, and others in the coming months.

[bry2000]

...and Corthay.

Those are beautiful shoes. How is the fit. Can you discuss the fitting process a little more. Was the first fitting made using the actual leather?

[rjman]

...Those are beautiful shoes. How is the fit. Can you discuss the fitting process a little more. Was the first fitting made using the actual leather?

From "AA"nother website:
Delos told me that he could add more antiquing, and that if I wished I could wear them in and then bring them back (I think he could tell I wanted to get my hands on them). As they look now, they remind me of Berlutis in the window -- jewellike, gorgeous, honeyed in that particular shade that's so hard to get right -- but without being so delicate. Putting them on is a new experience -- they mold around my feet in a feeling reminiscent of Manton's statement that putting on a bespoke shoe you feel there's no excess room for air around your feet -- it fits my instep perfectly, grabs my heel, and has room for my toes. So far, so good.

I had two fittings, both in leather mounted on temporary soles, which was then cut open to judge weight distribution and whatever else. At the fitting I was encouraged to move around, walk down the street, and otherwise relay how I felt.

[edhayes]

perfect, a terrific looking shoe and perfectly proportioned

[uppercase]

Good looking shoes there, rjman!