I’m working with Catella and Daniel Wegan on shows now! My second fitting is coming up in June. He’s been an absolute pleasure to work with!

I’m sticking with Trickers and Joseph Cheaney shoes.

11:30 While I was in London for a day. I remember wearing a pair of £90, reduced from £180 pair of black Barker brogue shoes. I had some compliments on them, primarily because the mirror shine on black brogues look more expensive then it actually is. This was on Jeremyn street which is always fun for a quick stroll.

Nice fantasy shoe collection! I particularly like the Gazinano & Gurling. However, I would not recommend the C & J Tetbury, to be honest. While it has a nice slim fit and pleasing aesthetics, it eats laces. The lacing system, anchored in just two holes on either side, will always slip and you would definetely need a double knot, preferably the Berluti. Also, a lot of wrinkles will develop on the vamp area. Using good quality shoe trees is not adequate to prevent this from happening. The dainite sole feels kind of chunky on the Tetbury and is not as comfortable as a single or double leather sole. I like dainite soles for their durability and practicality and they serve me very well on my collection of sturdier Tricker's shoes and boots but on this chukka the balance is off. In hindsight, I would prefer the C & J Chelsea 8 with the thinner City Rubber Sole,. But I like James Bond, who wore the Tetbury in Skyfall, so there you are. :-)

I'm in Budapest right now and just bought a pair of Vass. Great customer service and the quality of the product is unmatched at the price.

My choice for top quality shoes are mecchariello, although I have only had the budget for one pair so far. Their website is clunky, but their shoes are just wonderful, and generally cheaper than similar uk brands. TLB are my second choice, quality price ratio can't be beaten.

Very elegant outfit, Ash! Very good videos! I hope you will keep on!👍

It's just something i have never really thought of, £10k just on shoes. I will give my 'Original' Dream collection, back when I done some pretty hard research on brands to at least think about (when I had some exposable income before the pandemic), a pair of John Lobb Black Oxfords £1k, a pair of Brown Crockett & Jones Islay Boots £500, Tan Loake Sutherland Brogues £250 and a pair of Loake Godwood Drivers/Summer Shoe £100, The remainder £8k or so, get a pretty good Rolex Explorer for that ;)

That is a fine collection! All are beautiful works of art. The GG quarter brogue is my favorite. Will you please tell me about the necktie worn in this episode?

This was fun, really enjoyed it. I also buy shoes with Dainite soles, West Yorkshire where I live is often too damp and wet for leather soled shoes.

The quarter brogue is my choice as well for the formal shoe. Fantastic collection. Well done!

Love the quarter brogue Churchill 👌🏼

Ash, I own two pairs of CJ Tetbury’s in brown leather and dark brown suede both with Dainite soles for versatility. They’re so cool. Great choice I also own the CJ hand grade whole cut Weymouth 2 in dark brown with leather sole and two pairs of CJ Alex whole cut in mid brown and black. My last pair is a CJ Chelsea boot in rough-out dark brown suede with dainite sole. For me Crockett and Jones all the way.

I would love to own two pairs of *Loake 200B* $470 _NZ_ Even a pair of *John Lobb City II* $1,023 _NZ_ With shoe trees of course *compulsory* also Leather whole cut shoes $700 _NZ_ and the complete range of Saphir shoe care products etc!

I was waiting for you to bring up C&J! 🔥🔥🔥

I’m sticking with Loake, Joseph Cheaney and Fratelli Rossetti.

25 k subs awesome

Very good choice Ache, but I think you forgot the suede shoes for spring and summer.

Dreaming is for free and being encouraged. If one cannot afford such beauties at least one learns about them and adds to the knowledge.

I am here in the US and love your content!

Some great choices, Ash.

I love your choices. Might have chosen the C&G High Grade Chelsea boot for casual and maybe get my "sexy" shoe from Antonio Meccariello in Italy but no complaints about any of your choices. Wonderful collection!

Nice Collection of footwear my friend.

Great pics...some beauties in there for sure. I love this type of video lots of fun.

Great tie Ash.

Some excellent choices there , Ash, But for my money if we're talking Cheaney and talking boots it has to be Tiger Moth II boots. I have a black pair which are fantastically comfortable and incredibly robust. I'm hankering after a brown pair too.

Ash great look at some fine footwear. Cheers Ron

I would have went for a pair of Crockett and jones Cavendish loafers in cordovan, and a nice pair of Galway boots by Edward Green in a grain/smooth leather... mmmm!

I've brought $20 (£10) shoes in the past _(for over 30 years wearing them),_ I have stopped wearing _cheap_ shoes because they don't _most of them_ don't have proper or no arch support, unless one buys an insert with arch support! I like quality shoes like *Loake or John Lobb* shoes for Loake *200B* $470 _(NZ)_ as I have found quality shoes £205 ($500) are far suited for 90% of people!

To be honest. A very interesting but also difficult situation to cope with. In my mind I‘d go with multiple „icons“ of several brands depending obviously of sizing. 1. Alden LHS Loafer 2. Edward Green Dover 3. Edward Green Galway 4. Gaziano & Girling St. James 5. Crockett & Jones Belgrave 6. Crockett & Jones Tetbury 7. Crockett & Jones Waymouth 8. John Lobb William 9. John Lobb St. James or City

Those G and G Savoy semi brogues look awesome .. like you Ash, I wish I could afford to buy a pair

Ash, great selections. Five hundred and eighty five euros for that Captoe Derby boot seems decent value for something I can re sole and should last many years. Great selections for us all and a great topic for a video.

I have blown around $4K in dress boots, I was a young ghetto sneaker head from the Bronx and now I’m trying to transition to a well dress chap thanks to you and other KZfaqrs. I’m still not comfortable wearing dress shoes here, but here’s my collection; Crocket and Jones (C&J) rough out suede Chukka $650, C&J black Conistone rough-out boots $700., C&J Slye in shell cordovan boot $1.200, RM-Williams Signature craftsman Chelsea $900, Carmina Balmoral Oxford boot in tan $700, and my most recent Allen Edmonds Hamilton oxford boot in Chilly $350 on special, on a side note one KZfaqr I would like you to do a collaboration maybe a livestream with is The British Dapper and Ignoreatyourperil Nigel Cleaver it would be interesting to see an episode like that imo.

Ash that selection’s a little out of my price range though I am hopeful for a pair of Cheaney chukka boots for next winter. Might I also suggest you add a pair of handmade sneakers from Crown Northampton. I have a pair and they’re lovely for casual/holiday wear. With each style you can choose the sole colour from black, brown or white which can really make them stand out from the sneaker crowd and they’re highly regarded by American KZfaq content makers (which is how I found them😂).

All your content is entertaining and informative, but your videos on shoes are in a class of their own.

Beautiful selection my only addition would be a suede choice well done

Got MTM and expensive classic shoes but my most complimented? £38 Clarks. Most used? £40 Hi tech boots. 3,000 miles walked in them

Fantasy v Reality. Please reveal to us your ACTUAL shoe collection!

You are clearly enjoying yourself ! Let the passion rip! 🕺👍

Indeed all excellent choices however for my liking and taste I would include a pair done up in suede thanks for the video 👍🏾

Feel the exact same way about cap toe oxfords. For me, it’s a semi or quarter brogue at a minimum. I’m not concerned with their “appropriateness” in a situation as outside of formal wear they serve the purpose with a bit of character.

I've seen kirby allison have at least 8 pair of bespoke custome made shoes one of them was john lobb and it costs $6k which he was shining it on the video I would imagine his got over $20k worth of shoes 👞 😎😍

Thanks for opening my eyes to bespoke shoes. Can you enlighten us as to shopping for shoes on eBay? What do you look for? What should you be aware of and how close is sizing to expectations? Dave from Oregon USA

Great list! Impeccable taste! What would you choose for a casual shoe e.g. trainer?

Wonderful selection Ash. May I ask, did you consider Edward Green?

if I was going to spend loads of money on shoes and clothes, I'd do it outside the UK. I don't think you get charged VAT on imports of luxury goods. Pretty sure that's the reason why Paris is better for luxury compared against London.

My what a dreadful choice this would be😉! I'd probably spent the money on getting several additional lasts made and a veritable ton of uppers and then lock myself up in the workshop for a week🤣. I'd probably go nuts in the process and ruin at least one set of uppers in some insanely stupid experiment like adding a super-duper-ultra-fancy medallion to ruin an austerity brogue... or modifying a last into some nutty shape which I *thought* would look elegant. But your choices are stunning, I really like the art-deco-esque lines of the austerity brogue though I feel the Chukkas are a bit *too* far down the sleekness route for my taste - maybe a bit too "Bauhaus" in mentality - but that would be *my taste* - so relevance is zero^^. Of course everyone who's been a follower for a while was expecting the quarter brogue but there's nothing to say about it: it's awesome period. Calfskin is always (aww well, "always" - I only rarely get to work with it actually) a *pleasure* to work with... helps that is also looks great! And of course the "sexy shoe" works... with Gaziano & Girling it's hard to get anything wrong anyway (I suppose) but this one is really super sexy, you're right! The toe cap alone is a looker! For me this would *probably* be a variation of the cores...erm... "spectator" (phew) shoe, probably some variation of burgundy or oxblood with off-white as a contrasting option. (I really need to do one in cheap material at some point to actually see if it looks as nice as I think it would...) And the Trafalgar boot is... surprisingly dapper actually - I'm a somewhat urban (moderately so, but yeah) bloke and almost never need truly winter boots, my current ones are actually full derby half boots, so not all that wintery... I generally don't like the chunky Vibram soles (they actually have a ton of soles and half-soles and heels but this often-copied pattern really is the most common and I see it all the time, heck, we have a whole drawer full of those in every size and then some...), but that's just me having to work with them on *really anything* all too often for my taste - I'd probably grind down the profile and replace it with something a little more subtle (and thus lessening the utility...🤣). Great choices altogether and aside from being a phantasy also actually offering some inspiring notions! Thank you! Best regards Raoul G. Kunz

Excellent as usual, Cheers .

You have chosen some very fine shoes. I am curious if you considered any whole cut oxfords and if you would consider them as a proper challenge for the Balmoral Oxford as a top business shoe. Thanks.

wot no TLB or Carlos Santos ;-)

Fantastic fun video!

I plan to buy a Loake ROYAL Derby Brogue Double Leather Sole F-Medium (Burgundy). Is it superior to a low-end 1880 like the STRAND? I'm buying mainly for durability.

Let’s do Ladie‘s things! LOL Ok, buying shoes is really not my cup of coffee. 😀But of course a great video as always, Ash. Cheers! 🎉⏰🍸🍸

Have you seen Crockett and jones crocodile shoes in dark blue or brown,i would buy a pair of these if they weren’t about £5ooo pounds and my wife looking over my shoulder.

The trouble with living in the US is that all the wonderful British companies are out of geographic reach. eBay here carries only American brands. Those are gorgeous shoes, all of them.

Ashley: are you going to the London She Trunk Show? May 13th? You should if you can! Tony

Why do you choose 5 eyed shoes instead of 6?

You chugged through 10 k without too much bother there Ash...

I think I have that tie and similar jacket, but unfortunately, I could own all the super-expensive shoes in the world and still have no place to really wear them.

Oxfords, never brogues

Ah!! Just to advertise these shoes ( $10,000 ) you get to keep them for yourself. Nice.

By the way the way, I think you have the wrong picture of Daniel Wegan. The man in the picture I belive is @flannels_and_tweed.