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So I get a call from a fellow Purist. "Are you in Hong Kong and are you wearing your Sarpaneva? You have to come to dinner tonight with your Sarpaneva". So off I go to dinner with my Sarpaneva... ... only to find that I was hanging out with Max. Thanks for the entertaining night, Max. Gaz This messa

Is really picking up... Cheers Gaz

One of the biggest challenges of bespeaking a garment or a pair of shoes is the time it takes for the completed product to arrive. It typically takes a shoemaker or a team of shoemakers between 50 to 60 hours to make a pair of hand welted shoes. However, fittings are required and this is best facili

Finally, after 12 months, they have arrive! Had to go to Tokyo to collect them though... The maestro! Final fitting - note the pair of Metta Catherina leather shoes the maestro is wearing (sockless, of course). Watch featured is the PAM360. A final polish before the hand-over The packaging The acces

Watch: PAM360 BBQ Strap: Panerai OEM cashmere Shoe: Gaziano & Girling Its been a long while between posts. Hope everyone is well. Gaz

Apologies if this seems like a hijack but I just wanted to share a quick teaser of a few future shoe posts (after I am done with the Eating Carnivorously series). Latest delivery from Gaziano & Girling. My first bespoke shoe fitting by the maestro, Hidetaka Fukaya. Gaz

A belated birthday wish.

Unfortunately, I noticed some sentences were abruptly cut, most likely due to user error on my part. I've been playing with HTML to post rather than the more conventional (but simpler) method that the forum allows. Its a pity that London only offers expensive good food. I think Parisians eat very we

and they serve as a good training ground to know what to avoid in the future But without wanting to sound selfish, some of these places are best kept a secret. Gaz