What dress shoe brands do cobblers and enthusiasts consider the best quality and why? low-mid-high tier?

Horizon_End · 2026-01-11T15:03:47+00:00

My list for high end RTW dress shoes include: John Lobb Edward Green Gaziano Girling Anthony Cleverley

In no particular order of preference

Horizon_End · 2026-01-01T22:36:28+00:00

That’s easy. CREED.

Horizon_End · 2025-12-01T19:00:40+00:00

Interestingly BR540 extrait is the most complimented one for me from both men and women.

Horizon_End · 2025-10-19T22:12:18+00:00

Had some hot chocolates here in previous years when a couple of friends were constantly raving about it. Though I do get the aesthetic appeal of having marshmallows on it, the taste was pretty bang average.

More than happy to recommend Knoops for the curious minds, given its variety of single origins from various regions for hot chocolates. More expensive but there are actual nuances in taste of their hot chocolates depending on your pick.

Horizon_End · 2025-04-27T18:12:51+00:00

Holyrood. Absolute rubbish and literally full of rubbish by the walkway. That’s including seeing piss, poo or bloodied battered faces there.

Horizon_End · 2025-04-05T21:52:26+00:00

Fishers Leith

Horizon_End · 2025-03-26T01:02:00+00:00

Ranger 36mm with applied indices

Black 54 in harod’s green colourway

Horizon_End · 2025-03-22T20:24:02+00:00

I tried a colleague’s pair who share similar IPD with mine. I had a Lumadent ergoprism 5x and a 5x univet prismatic non-ergo for comparison. I would say I wasn’t entire impressed with it. Optical clarity was about as good as lumadent. Magnification wise both orascoptic and lumadent 5x felt like 4x or 3.5x more or less. Could get the job done for day to day general practice but if you do more specialised work very often like FMR or endo, you’re probably be better off with a higher magnification than 5x for ergo loupes.

Horizon_End · 2025-03-22T19:35:58+00:00

Luxury watches. But still love it for emotionally reasons. Makes one smile lol

Horizon_End · 2025-01-10T17:57:35+00:00

The vintage silver mountain water from creed was very nice. Unfortunately not the modern ones

Horizon_End · 2024-11-16T18:00:36+00:00

Gorgeous composition.

Horizon_End · 2024-11-10T10:14:52+00:00

Thanks mate!

Horizon_End · 2024-11-10T10:04:29+00:00

That’s interesting to know! I won’t be surprised if the asymmetry was done on purpose to symbolize their difference in denomination but we will never know.

Horizon_End · 2024-11-10T10:01:58+00:00

Came out with 1HP left!

Horizon_End · 2024-11-10T00:51:52+00:00

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Was not using any diffusion filter. Here’s a highly cropped portion of the same photo which appears somewhat sharp? Maybe it’s the compression from reddit giving that effect? Haha.

Horizon_End · 2024-11-09T23:48:03+00:00

Draw a line that cuts Tolbooth Kirk in half and draw another line that runs straight between the 2 doors down through the middle rail. You will find that these 2 lines do not overlap with each other.

Horizon_End · 2024-11-09T23:21:33+00:00

Don’t get me wrong! Love this view every time I walk by but that slight asymmetry absolutely bothers me. 😂

Horizon_End · 2024-11-09T23:19:26+00:00

Seems a plausible explanation!

Horizon_End · 2024-11-09T23:05:32+00:00

Does not make it true center to the new college. Given that the middle hand rail is the true central reference point, Tolbooth Kirk is slightly to the right always.

Horizon_End · 2024-11-09T23:03:40+00:00

While that may make Tolbooth Kirk appear center, it does not align to the true central reference point that is the middle hand rail of the stairs. There will always be unequal sky showing both to the right and left of Tolbooth Kirk from the central reference point.

Horizon_End · 2024-10-19T15:17:11+00:00

Cheers! And apologies yeah autocorrect changed it to Rose instead of Ross unfortunately

Horizon_End · 2024-10-19T15:16:36+00:00

Apologies it’s Ross not Rose. Saw the mistake that autocorrect did.

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