A black Oxford is the shoe you keep for the days you do not get to choose what you wear: the funeral, the interview, the court date, the wedding where somebody else set the dress code. Black offers nothing to hide behind and the closed lacing gives the foot a single clean line from the throat to the toe. Once you own a pair that fits, you stop thinking about the problem, and that is the whole service the shoe performs.
Under charcoal, navy or a dark suit it disappears in the way it is supposed to. Keep the toe polished and it reads as considerably more money than it costs.
Six sizes: UK 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12, whole sizes only, with no half sizes anywhere in the run. The the Kingsway is listed as a Standard (F) fitting, which is the width most of John White's range is built on and the one that suits most feet; the last carries a name of their own, the True Gentleman's Last. If you habitually take a half size, we would go down rather than up; a shoe that starts slightly close settles, whereas a loose one slips at the heel for ever.
John White himself stepped back in 1962, forty-three years after he began making shoes on his own account in 1919. In 1972 the firm bought George Ward of Leicester and the group took the name Ward White; White, long retired by then, objected and won the right to keep the John White trademark. The name outlived the arrangement, and the shoes carrying it now are designed in Northamptonshire and made by partner factories. The published specification runs to a high grade black calf upper and a leather sole, with no construction type given, so we make no claim about one. The warmer half of the pair is the Kingsway in brown.
Care: Black wax on the toe and the heel, thin coats, plenty of buffing, and a horsehair brush kept for black alone. Wipe the dust off before you polish or you grind it in. Cedar trees the moment the shoes come off.
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A black Oxford is the shoe you keep for the days you do not get to choose what you wear: the funeral, the interview, the court date, the wedding where somebody else set the dress code. Black offers nothing to hide behind and the closed lacing gives the foot a single clean line from the throat to the toe. Once you own a pair that fits, you stop thinking about the problem, and that is the whole service the shoe performs.
Under charcoal, navy or a dark suit it disappears in the way it is supposed to. Keep the toe polished and it reads as considerably more money than it costs.
Six sizes: UK 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12, whole sizes only, with no half sizes anywhere in the run. The the Kingsway is listed as a Standard (F) fitting, which is the width most of John White's range is built on and the one that suits most feet; the last carries a name of their own, the True Gentleman's Last. If you habitually take a half size, we would go down rather than up; a shoe that starts slightly close settles, whereas a loose one slips at the heel for ever.
John White himself stepped back in 1962, forty-three years after he began making shoes on his own account in 1919. In 1972 the firm bought George Ward of Leicester and the group took the name Ward White; White, long retired by then, objected and won the right to keep the John White trademark. The name outlived the arrangement, and the shoes carrying it now are designed in Northamptonshire and made by partner factories. The published specification runs to a high grade black calf upper and a leather sole, with no construction type given, so we make no claim about one. The warmer half of the pair is the Kingsway in brown.
Care: Black wax on the toe and the heel, thin coats, plenty of buffing, and a horsehair brush kept for black alone. Wipe the dust off before you polish or you grind it in. Cedar trees the moment the shoes come off.
You can ask any question about this product.
Our specialists will answer you shortly!
