JFP is the abbreviation of J.FitzPatrick, a leather shoe brand founded by Justin FitzPatrick also known as ShoeSnob blogger.
However, this pair of shoes can also be thought of as J.FitzPatrick X FU Pei abbreviated as JFP, why? Because you can get this model through MTO on the official website, but with this last, never for ever.
Let’s take a look at this pair of shoes that Justin doesn’t want to admit to being his own brand.
Unboxing
The vivid red is highly saturated, but when placed with the bright yellow below, it immediately loses its momentum. Am I going to read more books on photography theory?
Shoe bag in the same color.
The packaging inside the JFP shoe box is the fewest of any brand I’ve ever seen, with no filling, no wrapping paper, and no letters. It may be a cost saver, but I think it’s particularly concise. The shoe bag is thick enough to protect the shoes. Print paper with logos is meaningless in my opinion as it is easy to crease such bad-looking, and its functionality of protecting shoes is doubtful.
The shoe box is a pull-out type, and quite few brands share such. The information on the side writes style name Cascade, style number code 14181, the last SES (note this), and the color is black clashed with gray.
The size information is quite good with comprehensive cross reference.
Comes with a spare pair of flat laces which I prefer to round ones.
Last
Top view directly tells why Justin does not want to admit this is his shoes.
After I specified the style, color and last, Justin asked me that SES last was a big round toe used to make American country shoes, whether I was sure to put it on this model. I said yes, 100% sure.
As someone who trained at Stefano Bemer studio and developed the last with the help of Tony Gaziano, I believe he felt the same way I saw GG Deco last, nauseated and wanted to vomit.
When I just saw the shoes, I couldn’t help but laugh. they are so round. The front circle plus the middle circle are like a well reflecting the full moon.
In fact, the roundness of the toe cap may not be fatter than Edward Green 202 last, but what is the problem?
The height of toebox.
On most ready-to-wear brands, I really don’t notice this. It was previously thought that the thick and silly American last was round and wide, but in fact, height may be the real determining factor.
Pattern
Beyond as Oxford, it is difficult to categorize this two colour style. Why? From top view, you will think that it is a plain toe Balmoral as the line under the laces continues to the heel.
But this pair does not really continue to the heel and stops midway.
Production method is very simple, that is made of two pieces of leather, the bottom circle joins the top circle.
It is a very simple Oxford style but really rare on the market.
Outsole
Heeled with a large rubber sheet, unobtrusive copper nails.
The sole of JFP is a little thoughtful that is the color of the sole matches the color of the upper. At the end of the day this brand is about winning by design. I completely agree with this line of thinking!
Construction
For machine made Goodyear shoes, although it is possible to talk about the density of stitching, there are not many brands that differentiate in this aspect. What can be observed is welt edge processing. For example, Edward Green’s is particularly narrow, and fudge is thin.
Welt width of JFP is not very fine at a level of error-free.
Details
For the significance of a brand, the information on lining is important, especially if it is still valuable in the second-hand market. The information here, I think is quite comprehensive.
Summary
Whether you like it or not, round on round, my love.
I want to show everyone the original design(last).
