The Essential Three: Exotics
This is the second posting in my Essential Three Posts, a short series of posts on the three Aldens that you should get given your typical dress attire. For this one, I decided to take...
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Alden Cigar Norwegian Split Toe Bluchers
Alden’s Norwegian Split Toe (NST) design is just truly beautiful and provides a lovely handmade look to their models. They offer the NST design on a variety of different models and Lasts. This special...
Alden Whiskey 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 PTBs, the “Wholecut” and...
Alden Color #8 6-Eyelet Norwegian Split Toe Chukka Boot
This has got to be one of the coolest Aldens that I have seen in a while. Its a pretty unique combination of Alden designs. It is the marriage of the Norwegian Split Toe (NST),...
Alden Color #8 Norwegian Split Toe Boot
At this point in time, I think that the Norwegian Split Toe design, is probably my favorite of the Alden patterns. Frankly, I have no clue what is Norwegian about the Split Toe. I...
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...
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...
