Evening Opera Pump

Evening Opera Pump

$550.00

Our signature evening opera pump in a black calf with a flat grosgrain ribbon Petersham bow. We believe black is for black tie, burials, and butlers. Pair these with everything from black tie to black Adidas track pants.

  • Handmade in England

  • Men’s

  • Black Calfskin

  • Flat grosgrain ribbon Petersham bow

  • Black grosgrain topline binding

  • Red quilted lining and leather insole

  • Pink grosgrain binding around insole

  • Snuffed leather sole

  • 3/4” brass tacked heel

This is a pre-order item and is expected to ship eight weeks from the time of purchase.

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Developed in the early 1800s as a functional and elegant indoor shoe, velvet slippers were worn to protect the expensive rugs and wooden floors that adorned England's palaces and grand homes from dirt. Legend has it that it was Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg, a well-respected consort of Queen Victoria, who began wearing his English slippers out to black-tie events. Since then, it became commonplace for gentlemen of the upper class to wear these to clubs and in smoking rooms.

Our Prince Albert smoking slippers are individually handcrafted by our slipper factory in England. Each pair is hand cut, painstakingly embroidered, closed, and hand-lasted by a handful of artisans with over 150 years of combined experience. The process is so laborious that this factory only produces smoking slippers. We take great pleasure in the fact that the production process has remained largely unchanged over the last century. This is luxury, made the old-fashioned way.

 
 
 
 
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