Vintage Allen Edmonds: The Shoe of Tomorrow! (circa 1940's)
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- Опубликовано: 22 дек 2011
- Take a look at how Allen Edmonds shoes were made back in the late 1940's.
This 16mm film shows how Allen Edmonds shoes were made back in the 1940's. Not much has changed over the years! Special thanks to the Allen family.
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I keep coming back to watch this every couple of years
Great products. I first discovered Allen Edmunds in the mid-80's when visiting one of their outlet stores in Burlington, North Carolina. Have bought many pairs since from dress to casual. Actually still have that first purchase, a pair of Grayson's (tassle slip-on) in burgundy.
Phillip McDowell Thank you for choosing Allen Edmonds!
I love old ads like this. Too cool. And it seems that the shoes haven't changed that much in the last 70 years.
He was damn right when he called it 'the shoe of tomorrow'. Allen Edmonds are a timeless classic.
Just bought my first pair!
This is magical.
I've owned Allen Edmonds shoes for over 15 years and they are wonderful.
Best shoe ever made. Couldn't be better because they're tops. I love my four pairs.
Nice....thanks! Good to see so much attention to detail and hands on the shoes still.
Yes, a lot has changed since. Quality, for instance.
Loved seeing the video. I have a few pairs of Allen Edmonds shoes that i love very much.
The car at 9:45 is a 55-59 Karmann Ghia, so the date is off by about a decade.
The man in the video says it's 25 years since Allen Edmonds started. AE was founded in 1922, so the date of the clip should be around 1947. My impression is the technology shown seems to be a bit further ahead.
And yep... it does look like a KG 1955. I just looked it up to see some photos. BTW... Were there Karmann Ghia cars before 1950 ? If so, what did they look like ? Thanks.
First year of production for the Karmann Ghia was late-1955 (there were very few of them, and the year is often cited as 1956). There were a few earlier prototypes dating back to 1954, but the front end was sufficiently different (i.e. lacking the air intake ports) that they're not what's pictured. Looking closely, it appears to have chrome park light bezels, which were introduced mid-1958 from the factory, but were a parts department part before that, almost certainly an optional dealer accessory, and the American market tended to get a lot more chrome bits than most other markets at the time, so it certainly doesn't rule out an earlier model. My '57 had painted bezels, but it was also poorly restored by a previous owner.
It does say "25 years of revolutionary shoemaking experience..." (~9:55), so I don't know what's going on there. I can say I used to have a piano built in 1911 that commemorated the "400th anniversary of Columbus landing in the Americas", which would have been 1892, so maybe there was some cultural looseness with dates or something once upon a time... It's all pretty moot though, because if you look closely at the opening credits shot (~1:18), you can see the copyright date at the bottom stating MCMLVII (1957), so that's about as definitive as you can get.
My dad had a Karmann Ghia, I'm not sure about the year though, I think somewhere around the 60s. I think it's a cool car, I would have one today. I was thinking of having a vintage car like that -- or buying an old Porsche and have it restored.
Hmmm... I'm impressed you were able to spot and read the date there.
Thank you.
@@spectre6000 excellent catch and write up, thank you for taking the time to write this!
allen edmond shoe are simply awesome!!!! best formal shoe collection ever. especially for the recrafting service.
Great shoes. I have 2 pairs. Great video. It's like I was a kid again watching tv on the floor in the livingroom.
Wow those shoes back in the day. Now AE's leather creases just by walking.
Allen Edmonds has always produced a superior product.
8:25 lol size 14 AA must have bird feet to wear those.
Lucas T haha!!! Lol!!!
I don't think you can flex a brand new pair like that anymore. If I try it you can see the heel starting to separate from the sole, lol! I think the sole leather is a lot stiffer now.
Exactly my thoughts. I'm not going to go flex any of mine like that.
I have a pair Leeds Bucher Oxfords, they are quite flexible. I didn't twist them to this extent but they are tougher and more malleable then you think!
that's CGI
I tried with a new pair i have nect to me, and youre absolutely not able to at all. The only pair i had that were able to do that were a pair of bologna stitched Santonis...
It depends on the leather I think, but a comment made by the AE team on another video says most of their shoes would still likely stand up to it; I think they would, even if it would be a little more difficult.
I just ordered my first pair of Allen Edmonds today.
Wow, I've got to get myself a pair of Allen Edmonds..."The Shoe of Tomorrow"...I can pass the shoes to my son.
Eh doubtful that you share the same size
They truly are lifetime shoes if you take care of them, they can also be resoled at least a couple times as well.
Ahh yes this opening introductory tune reminds me of Tom & Jerry cartoons. Saturday’s even Sunday morning cartoons will never be the same !
My precious!!!
Great video (film) from the 40s wow Great Quality American footwear.
amazing!!
A man's shoe!
Their shoes are very good I have a pair that has lasted over 26 yrs and look great just had to replace soles a few times .
why do old video's of regular thing look more magical if it is vintage? :)
Good music and presentation! And narration! Now a lot of videos that show how things are made are in many ways crude or with no narration.
Wish they where still built like this ☹️
I love old ads and vids.
I love getting to see this! You may say not much has changed over the years, but I think it would be really awesome to see the parallel video of today versus 1940- and it didn't look like we followed the same shoe start to finish, which made me a little sad, especially as the one shoe had broguing, and I would love to see that done in the video. Nerding aside, thank you for making great shoes- and in 7.5 EEE! Three happily shoe-treed pairs in our closet :)
Men’s fashion never goes out of style
Gateway drug of the shoe world :)
I’ve become quite a fan of AE.
There are many fine shoe makers in the world, but is there any that offers the variety, the sizing, and the value of an AE?
Aldens are great
Carmina’s are great
Meermin are pretty good.
None of them offer the breadth and value that AE does.
Such a great company, with a price point within the grasp of a huge audience.
The 2nd had market is pretty good too!
Only possible because they start so good!
There is no way you can flex an Allen Edmonds shoe like that anymore...LOL
This is a fascinating vintage ad but I cringe when I see the flexibility demonstration. I say this because I absolutely need a shank to provide support so seeing those shoes flex so fluidly fatigued my arches just by looking at them. Fine video nonetheless!
I would love to see a video of how they are made now.
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Wow he had me sold on flexibility!
Gentlemen, These shoes will get you laid. Trust me.
@Yankie Doodle I'm a guy, dumbass.
I start colecting this shoes and I have five pairs and the webgem white/blue/red. :)
Would love to know the list price back then!
8:05 Damn that's quite the amount of checks.
Good!
Quality Control at its finest.
I wonder whatever became of the woman at 7:55?
Shortly after Allen Edmonds started this testing, Big Foot sightings in Wisconsin increased 10 fold 🤣
Like an acrobat!!
This seems to be c1950. The title is misleading.
@kubrick681 I wish you could... that would be one hell of a comfortable shoe.
Now go watch the current production video, they really haven't changed in umpteen years!
Traced the names and this is closest to 1958, which style and music suggests as well. (see also "The Jetsons" satire of 50s life first created about then)
Looks like they may have also invented the logo T shirt.
How does every video on youtube have at least one dislike?
Russian collusion...
Liberals hate everything
They're called trolls...spiteful people with nothing better to do.
Haters gonna hate
I own a pair.
Who is the guy that narrates this video?
rodrigod75 walt disney
elvis wore these
A manly man man's shoe
foreign particles
Bring back the half rubber heels, they are more comfortable and longer wearing.
The medieval Dutch
1:14 >_
tim osborne
Nike Free from 1940's
honestly who in the hell would walk in wooden shoes.
Wooden shoes are mostly used around the house or out in the garden, kind of how an American might do with Crocs or houseshoes.
The shoe of yesterday.
Lets Make America Great again! Vote Trump! bring back jobs and factories to US soil like Allen Edmonds!