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 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 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...
