Not sure if this is the right thread, but I heard that Kanayama is offering bespoke brogans in 5mm shell. Can anyone confirm this?
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Not sure if this is the right thread, but I heard that Kanayama is offering bespoke brogans in 5mm shell. Can anyone confirm this?
What does the term 'Brogan' mean?Quote:
Originally Posted by WW243
A leather shoe?
All I could think of as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings
It's Bill. We have been had! :p
Brogans = brogue wearing bogans
For Australians only - someone had to do it, that's my excuse.
I think celticcrusader may have inadvertently set the ball rolling...
Ahh a fine pair of brogans...reminds me of that passage from Henry Ballsacks epic novel, "The Wild Ass's Skin"......:D
And that passage would be????Quote:
Originally Posted by Phrank
More of a commentary on the way he wrote, for instance,Quote:
Originally Posted by sharptonn
"The abstemious Balzac was fond of the same drink, though
it seems to have acted upon his temperament very much as
laudanum upon others. When he sat down at his desk, which was at midnight, his servant used to place coffee
within his reach ; and upon this he worked till his full brain
would drive his starved and almost sleepless body into such
self-forgetfulness that he often found himself at daybreak,
bare-headed and in dressing-gown and brogans, in the
Place du Carrousel, not knowing how he came there, and
miles from home.
Excellent!
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Thank-you Tom, much about that passage reminded me of some of my behaviour in years past, especially the part about finding myself in the town square, with nothing but brogans and a large strop in hand.....Quote:
Originally Posted by sharptonn
Another bit of art related .......... listen @ 1:58 for the term ..........Quote:
Originally Posted by sharptonn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ZdKCFFR3I
