@Steve Thomas times changes, people are again return to quality. In Prague we says "im not so reach to buy cheap" and You wery well know why. Shoes from shell c, are for rest of life.

it is really expensive, around 4-5 times more expensive than leather in similar shape and size

What do u mean ? Do they use different process?

@@Montekos86 at least the coloring process is different.

Horween is #1

@@rickbro4164 and the tanning method seems to not include vegetable tanning

Same question. Received it from slovakia. Did I get scammed? Lol damn

I wondered the same. I think tatra leather is the company and just sells the shell cordovam from italy. ?

nope its Vltava ( Moldau) from famous czech 19th century composer Smetana

Martin Mráček thanks. They probably took it from there to hatikva

@@jadur its more to it that meldie was known for centuries, Smetana meda a whole symphonie around it and when Israel came around it was choosen for hymn of new state :-)

Martin Mráček this melody started as a a religious melody of Jews in Spain in 14 century. Then they run away from incvisitsia to Italy and in became an Italy melody, motzart then took it and after then smetana. Interesting research from Astrit Baltzan.

No. Cordovans sheen comes from the glazing arm that has a glass rod at the end to compress everything down even tighter than the rest of the rolling.

@@DenyTheZeitgeist ahh ok

what is the point? animals are killed even if you used or not their leather. Maybe you don't eat meat also...

Dan, You didn’t see the wink at the end? Or are you Aspergers?

Horses

The fact that even your used of the word is also an act of sanitization.

You understand that "Cordovan" means "from Cordoba", a city in Spain, where this specific tanning procedure was initially developed centuries ago, right?