Blakeys

[CoolHands]

anyone still wear them? I remember nailing some of my dads into my school shoes when I was about 14 or 15. Thought I was the bees knees...

[TheEnd]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Blakeys-Metal-Heel-and-T...

I wonder if they are still making them, or just pulling them out of a dusty box from 1961.

[Drogo]

Available to buy Online!

http://www.blakeys-segs.co.uk/

Eta
And any good branch of Timpson

Edited by Drogo on Monday 9th April 17:57

[rohrl]

You're a man with segs appeal OP.

Do you wear sock suspenders too?

[CoolHands]

Drogo said:

Available to buy Online!

http://www.blakeys-segs.co.uk/

lol

Might make a humerous Christmas pressie for the old man. Never 'hear' anyone wearing them these days.

edit

bloody hell! Look how many they've sold!

Edited by CoolHands on Monday 9th April 18:00

Edited by CoolHands on Monday 9th April 18:01

[Drogo]

Last time I tried them, trying to recreate my youth, I couldn't seem to walk properly and nearly fell over.

[T5R+]

Quarter steel heels on some of my quality leather footwear............

The look of disappointment on the male species faces when they see a "burly chap" and not a stilettoed female ......priceless.

[shirt]

All my decent leather soled shoes/boots have segs on heel and toe. Makes the sole last longer and I do quite like the noise. Not on tiled floors though, hence they're referred to as my tap dancing shoes at work

[Uncle Fester]

I’d forgotten putting a spark into your stride.

Now all we need is leather elbow patches.

[MikeGTi]

Is this some kind of Ye Olde World thing?

[HOGEPH]

Blakeys? Pah! Tap shoes is where it's at!

[finbarcorky]

Ohhh, I 'ate you Butler.

[Uncle Fester]

MikeGTi said:

Is this some kind of Ye Olde World thing?

You cheeky whippersnapper. None of us remember ‘ye olde worlde’

What we are remembering is a time when England was in a financial mess. Rationing was still on, so you needed to make do and mend. Blakeys, quatertips, hobnails, and leather patches helped stop things wearing out.

Export or die was the slogan. You could work in a car factory, make a car, but not buy it yourself. That car was going for export to earn foreign currency.

Had we imposed import taxes or prohibitions then other markets would have responded similarly and we couldn’t export.

By allowing all imports, but restricting sales of both domestic and imports we achieved the Holy Grail. We balanced the trade figures. This averted other nations banning our goods whist allowing our exports.

We need to earn more than we spend until the books balance. That isn’t an ld fashioned truth, just an eternal one.

[rhinochopig]

Uncle Fester said:

MikeGTi said:

Is this some kind of Ye Olde World thing?

You cheeky whippersnapper. None of us remember ‘ye olde worlde’

What we are remembering is a time when England was in a financial mess. Rationing was still on, so you needed to make do and mend. Blakeys, quatertips, hobnails, and leather patches helped stop things wearing out.

Export or die was the slogan. You could work in a car factory, make a car, but not buy it yourself. That car was going for export to earn foreign currency.

Had we imposed import taxes or prohibitions then other markets would have responded similarly and we couldn’t export.

By allowing all imports, but restricting sales of both domestic and imports we achieved the Holy Grail. We balanced the trade figures. This averted other nations banning our goods whist allowing our exports.

We need to earn more than we spend until the books balance. That isn’t an ld fashioned truth, just an eternal one.

The exception that proves the rule

[Dusty964]

shirt said:

All my decent leather soled shoes/boots have segs on heel and toe. Makes the sole last longer and I do quite like the noise. Not on tiled floors though, hence they're referred to as my tap dancing shoes at work

I bloody knew you would be posting!!!

[mattyn1]

Blakeys on my loafers + football in the playground = arse over tit many times!!!

[CoolHands]

I’m currently sat in a car dealership waiting for my car. One of the spivs is clicking around in a pair of blakeys lol! Haven’t thought about them for years then he started clicking about haha