Otherwise conservative Gaziano and Girling models Warwick and Cambridge on the traditional round last, unexpectedly in Bordeaux calf. Cambridge, on the right, is a cap toe, while Warwick is a galosh with a line of punches around the sides.
I particularly like this shoe color when it is worn with blue suits, as the pairing is more complementary to my eye than either black or brown with blue.
Polish red shoes with a coat of black followed by two coats of oxblood each time, to darken and antique the finish over the years. 
Anglelic.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Any Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes?
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Will,
I don't see too much of a difference between the two. What makes one a galosh and the other not?
Only difference is the line of punches around the shoe on the left. And that line is what makes it a galosh.
Will, thanks for explaining the difference between a cap toe and a galosh. With their being so similar, jow do you personally decide whether to wear one or the other?
Thanks also for the advice on polishing Oxblood and other redish shoes. I'm going to give that a try.
....And thanks for turning your shoes upside down so I can indulge my bevelled shole fetish.
Nungesser, I don't have that decision to make in my wardrobe my only galoshes are boots, but if I had more I would wear them in situations calling for quarter brogues.
I differentiate cap toes by color as you'd expect.
Are you able to get them for sale? if so what price?
Dear Will,
Since I was a little perplexed by your use of the term "galosh" - I always understood it to be a rubber overshoe - I re-checked the definition in Merriam-Webster, which confirmed my understanding of the word.
Is there another use, perhaps more regional, that I am not aware of? Cheers.
I am so impressed with these shoes that I won't share my reaction to those you posted yesterday.
Tony, they are $1,030 for a pair, plus shipping from Reno. Lasted mahogany shoe trees add $150.
There's no sales tax or VAT.
A4, as I understand it, the American term galoshes is language drift. Last century, men wore boots instead of shoes and the most popular style was the galosh, a boot version of the shoe in the post.
Would your polishing method (1 black, 2 oxblood) for oxblood calf also apply to shell cordovan?
Greg, the shine people I listen to tell me that cordovan shouldn't have more than two coats of polish at a time. It's also darker than Bordeaux to begin with.
I usually stay with oxblood without adding any black.
Aren't the shoes differently constructed? That line of punches on the galosh is a seam running level all the way around the heel, while the seam on the cap toe curves down to the sole on either side, at the front of the heel. At least that's what it looks like to me. And I would have thought it's the seam, not the punches, that make it a galosh.
Kurt, they are constructed slightly differently but that's an invisible part of the shoe to my readers' eyes.
The traditional galosh has punches around the shoe rather than stitching, though it can certainly be made with stitching.
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