Thank you for bringing these to my attention. They are some very handsome footwear, and appear to be finely made. I suspect they're looking to compete with Carmina, and are priced accordingly. There's some very excellent footwear coming from the Iberian peninsula now.TLB - mentioned by Justin F (the shoe snob) in his new blog here: https://www.theshoesnobblog.com/2018/03/london-super-trunk-show-2018-brand-highlight-9-skolyx.html
The company: https://www.tlbmallorca.com/
I wonder about Mallorca saturation...
Where does one purchase C&J bench grade for $320? :icon_scratch:Shoes look nice on the website which is totally meaningless
$450 a shoe is a really high price point to hop into a market with a lot of reputable factories. I would much rather pay under $300 for Loake 1880 or pay $20 more for Crockett and Jones benchgrades.
Perhaps that's what he intended, but the TLB shoes ex-VAT are around $360, whereas the C&J's are mostly over $500, and their Hand Grade, if that's what he meant by Bench Grade, are mostly over $700.I believe that the gentleman was saying that for $470, he could get bench-grade C & J - though certainly not from a US based brick-and-mortar source, as even in London, in the Jermyn St. store, most all of the bench-grade offerings were somewhere just north of 400 GBP, which should be more on the order of $600+ from a US source. Possibly one can order C & J via the Internet from a source that will subtract the VAT to come down to that price, but one needs to know exactly how a particular model of shoe will fit to do that confidently.
The price point for the shoes seems to be more in line with competing with Carmina.
