Alden Color #8 Plaza Saddle Shoe
The Saddle Shoe is an Ivy League standard makeup. Alden offers the tradition Saddle Shoe and various excursions of it. They offer it both as a Balmoral and as a Blucher. They offer with...
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Alden Navy Chromexcel Wingtip Boots
Alden makes a beautiful Wingtip Boot. The dimensions of the Alden Wingtip Boot are about as perfect as they get. I have not seen another manufacturer make a Wingtip Boot with such balance and design....
Alden Whiskey Shell Cordovan Leisure Handsewn
Alden makes an absolutely outstanding Penny Loafer with their LHSes. It is stocked regularly in Color #8 and Black Shell Cordovan and a variety of other leathers. It is rarely made in the hard-to-produce Whiskey Shell...
Alden Cigar Plain Toe Blucher
The Plain Toe Blucher (PTB) is about as classic of a shoe as one can find. It is simple, clean and very dynamic. Alden’s actually offer’s two different types of Plain Toe Bluchers, the...
Alden Cigar Semi-Brogue Balmorals
The Semi-Brogue pattern has long been my favorite dress shoe pattern. My first pair of Shell Cordovan shoes ever, was the Allen Edmonds Semi-Brogue “Strand” in Walnut Shell Cordovan. It is just an extremely...
Alden Navy Suede Tassel Loafer
When it comes to the Tassel Loafer, it is hard to beat the Alden Tassel Loafer. I mean, Alden did invent the Tassel Loafer. They say that it is “Often imitated, never duplicated”. This Navy Suede...
Alden Snuff Suede Tassel Loafer
When it comes to the Tassel Loafer, it is hard to beat the Alden Tassel Loafer. I mean, Alden did invent the Tassel Loafer. They say that it is “Often imitated, never duplicated”. This Snuff...
Alden Black Shell Cordovan George Boot
The George Boot is not a commonly encountered Alden. It is almost the marriage between Alden’s Single Monk Strap and their Chukka Boot. The combination is actually a pretty cool looking makeup offering a...
Alden Whiskey Monk
Alden makes a lovely single monkstrap model. Frankly, it is an extremely under appreciated model that Alden offers. In Shell Cordovan (in particular), it is just a beautiful model, for expositing the beauty of...
Alden Color #8 Shell Cordovan Leisure Handsewn
There are three models that people think of when they think of the classic Alden models, they are the 975, 990, and 986; which are the Color #8 LWB, Color #8 PTB, and Color #8...
