[momsdoc]

No, I'm a Marxist.

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In that case you really need one. Considering how history has treated you and all.
BTW how's Trotsky doing?

 

[TheoProf]

I really wish this forum had a function to filter out posts by a particular user. It's become very common amongst Internet forums and would be a very useful tool on this one.

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Sorry for getting off-topic L-Feld. I just couldn't resist the temptation. On the subject at hand, I really like those shoes in as a casual option (with or without the name).

 

[momsdoc]

Sorry for getting off-topic L-Field. I just couldn't resist the temptation. On the subject at hand, I really like those shoes in as a casual option (with or without the name).

Honestly I would too but the sole just looks clunky.

 

[Tiger]

I think Allen Edmonds needs to expand beyond Manhattan. I heard next season they're going to release a Flatbush Avenue and a Grand Concourse.

One of the greatest posts ever! Thank you, Matt S, for adding just the right blend of esoteric humor that everyone, regardless of location, can appreciate.

 

[L-feld]

In that case you really need one. Considering how history has treated you and all.
BTW how's Trotsky doing?

https://www.vdare.com/articles/yes-virginia-there-is-a-cultural-marxism
According to the right-wingers, we're doing just fine. To paraphrase Scalia, just because we're not running around kicking pigs off cliffs doesn't mean that we've gone away. We've just gotten wilier.

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[phyrpowr]

I'd be concerned about a shoe with that name. It should be Avenue of the Americas for out of towners like AE. Only native New Yorkers have the right to call it 6th Ave. They even list their address as Ave.of the Americas in NYC.
Which BTW is not an address that conjures up images and feelings of luxury and poshness, just ridiculously overpriced pretentious real estate. Which is exactly in line with that Blucher with its awful Vibram sole.

I think it's the shoe in the box under it that has the vibram sole, not the shoe in question (see third pic).

I like NYC natives. You can tell them anything about the world outside the few city blocks that's their whole universe from birth, and they believe it and repeat it like it's gospel. Funny as hell.

 

[momsdoc]

Wait a minute, What's a Marxist doing on a fashion forum, populatd by pretentious snobs like us. People who are activly trying to distinguish themselves from the masses. Spending money on frivolities, that could house and feed the poor, create jobs, distribute wealth?

 

[drlivingston]

Address:Allen Edmonds
1250 Sixth Ave
Midtown West
New York

• Cross Street: between 48th and 49th Sts
• Opening hours: Mon-Fri 8:30am-7:30pm, Sat 10am-6:30pm, Sun 11am-5:30pm
• Transport: Subway: B, D, F, M to 47-50th Sts-Rockefeller Ctr

 

[blue suede shoes]

Hi all,

I was browsing through nordstrom rack and ran across some allen edmonds 6th Avenue line of shoes. I've never heard of this or even seen them on AE's website. Anyone have any additional info? I assume these are made specifically for the rack? Can I assume they are on level with other AE shoes, quality wise? Thanks.

Here are some pics:

Those shoes look identical to the Allen Edmonds Sanford; they even have the same number of eyelets and sole thickness. As another poster suggested, they may have made them exclusively for one store with a different name, just as they make shoes for JosABank.

 

[TheoProf]

Wait a minute, What's a Marxist doing on a fashion forum, populatd by pretentious snobs like us. People who are activly trying to distinguish themselves from the masses. Spending money on frivolities, that could house and feed the poor, create jobs, distribute wealth?

He's trying to help you. The Consumer Republic made you an "offer you couldn't refuse" and moved you from your community and home thus separating you from your identity as a native New Yorker. You've been victimized by the capitalist state and you didn't even realize it. To make matters worse, you proceeded to buy copious amounts of Johnston and Murphy shoes. The very type of shoes that represent the horrors of globalization and the destruction of a community centered identity. :icon_smile_wink:
Sorry, now I need to get back on topic. The soles don't look excessively clunky for a country shoe IMO.

 

[momsdoc]

He's trying to help you. The Consumer Republic made you an "offer you couldn't refuse" and moved you from your community and home thus separating you from your identity as a native New Yorker. You've been victimized by the capitalist state and you didn't even realize it. To make matters worse, you proceeded to buy copious amounts of Johnston and Murphy shoes. The very type of shoes that represent the horrors of globalization and the destruction of a community centered identity. :icon_smile_wink:
Sorry, now I need to get back on topic. The soles don't look excessively clunky for a country shoe IMO.

But I did return 8 and get 3 pairs of oppresive capitlaist style AEs.

 

[momsdoc]

I think it's the shoe in the box under it that has the vibram sole, not the shoe in question (see third pic).
You're right my mistake. I think they're a great casual shoe. If the price is right I'd get them, (such a capitalist waste :icon_smile.

See even New Yorkers can be wrong.....just not often.

 

[blue suede shoes]

I think Allen Edmonds needs to expand beyond Manhattan. I heard next season they're going to release a Flatbush Avenue and a Grand Concourse.

Allen Edmonds already has a style that they have named the Upper West Side. I think they should introduce models named Hells Kitchen, Harlem, and Meatpacking District. The Harlem shoes should be a style one would wear to a jazz club. I hope Paul reads this and takes it into consideration.

 

[pleasehelp]

Interesting thread...
I've never thought it to be solely within NYer's right to refer to it as 6th Avenue - in fact I somewhat thought the opposite. It's confusing that 6th doesn't follow 5th, so I would think non-NYers would be more likely to use that phrase. I don't know what image AE is trying to conjure through the reference to 6th Avenue - since it appears to be a discontinued line, I suspect that they didn't know either.

I think the shoes are nice enough for business casual.

 

[TheoProf]

Allen Edmonds already has a style that they have named the Upper West Side. I think they should introduce models named Hells Kitchen, Harlem, and Meatpacking District. The Harlem shoes should be a style one would wear to a jazz club. I hope Paul reads this and takes it into consideration.

Yeah, and some orthodic insoles named for the East River! Tired of that cedar smell from your shoe trees? Add a hint of East River to your shoes!

 

[momsdoc]

Interesting thread...
I've never thought it to be solely within NYer's right to refer to it as 6th Avenue - in fact I somewhat thought the opposite. It's confusing that 6th doesn't follow 5th, so I would think non-NYers would be more likely to use that phrase. I don't know what image AE is trying to conjure through the reference to 6th Avenue - since it appears to be a discontinued line, I suspect that they didn't know either.

I think the shoes are nice enough for business casual.

6th runs next to 5th from CPS to Herald Sq. Then is interupted by Bdwy crossing over,until 24th St. at Gramercy Pk. It then continues just west of 5th until Washington Sq N. where 5th terminates.

 

[pleasehelp]

6th runs next to 5th from CPS to Herald Sq. Then is interupted by Bdwy crossing over,until 24th St. at Gramercy Pk. It then continues just west of 5th until Washington Sq N. where 5th terminates.

Sorry - I was a bit unclear. I meant that I think it is confusing for non NYers to refer to the street west of Fifth is called "Avenue of the Americas" rather than 6th ave, which is why I would think that non-NYers would be more likely to refer to it as 6th. FWIW, I have also always been annoyed that there are several avenues between 3rd and 5th, and none are called 4th Avenue...

 

[mrkleen]

Yes they do, it is listed by it's official address as Ave. of the Americas. My point being that as a non-native New York firm, they forfeit the right to call it 6th Ave.

:icon_headagainstwal

 

[momsdoc]

Sorry - I was a bit unclear. I meant that I think it is confusing for non NYers to refer to the street west of Fifth is called "Avenue of the Americas" rather than 6th ave, which is why I would think that non-NYers would be more likely to refer to it as 6th. FWIW, I have also always been annoyed that there are several avenues between 3rd and 5th, and none are called 4th Avenue...

Ah but there is. Downtown in "old NY", it termintes at Union Sq. It eas never included in the grid that became upper downtown, midtown and uptown.

Until the late 1980's Ave. of yhe Americas was activly promoted as the name of the street. t is commonly referenced as such in movies and popular culture of the time, but disdained by New Yorkers. I guess it's use has dropped since the alternative street signs saying 6th Ave. were placed in 1986 under the Ave. of the Americas signs.

 

[momsdoc]

:icon_headagainstwal

cute.