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Hello friends,

Apologies for a mundane 4D style thread but I am embarking on the exciting journey that is shoe repair for the first time. I have a £2 coin sized hole in the sole of my snappy daps.

My questions are:

Can anyone recommend a place in Swindon?
Is there a waiting list for such services or do they do it 'same day'?
Does having a complete re-sole (if this is possible of course) make your shoes look shit?

Thank you in advance and may you all have many sons

Never tried them, but what about Timpsons in the Town Centre
http://www.timpson.co.uk/shop/c/20/shoe-care

I've had shoes re-soled at the cobblers at the bus station before. I think they did them the same day.

Not in the Q&A forum = fail.

Back to the question, just walk around town for a bit, what with all the chewing gum and the law of averages your hole will soon be filled.

Or, get some expanding foam.

Buy some new ones you tight cunt  ;)

Not your usual meaning of 'fill your boots' then DMR?

Tempted but at nearly £400 a chuck I might as well see if the resoling is worth it first!

trevor ayres in havelock street

Wow, they are snappy daps.

£400 and they have a hole in them  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

what make are they?

My dear Lord. That's £200 a shoe. That's obscene.

Burberry. Does it matter? They are 'special occassion' daps!

Not really

I have a pair of Loakes that I paid £350 for over 10 years ago and I still wear them twice a week.

Needless to say they are still in great condition.

How much have you spent on shoes in a similar period ?

I can cope with paying a few hundred for a pair of handmade leather shoes from a firm like Loakes. Not for a pair of Daps though. My Mrs says this is because I'm a miserable old bastard.

Do fashions not change a lot in 10 years though?

That's the difference between a quality handmade shoe and something made in China for £3.50, with a designer label on it.

But Dmr paid more and his shoes are knackered. How long you had em Dave?

Loafers are loafers

A bit like brogues, never a fashion statement

i prefer crocs

18 months - I know exactly why the hole has come about though - the very point of my foot at which I press the pedals in my car... Must remember to drive in crap shoes

Slightly off topic but my grandad is the oldest cobbler in the world. 83 and he still runs his own shop, working 6 days a week. If we had more people like him the world would be a much better place.

is your grandfather Bosnian? It might be a bit inconvenient for DMR

I think it's Vince Ayris - but it is in Havelock Street, and they're really good in there.  I have always used them for all shoe soling/key cutting/engraving needs.

Yep. How many 83 year olds work full time in this country?  :D

fair point although I swear half of the staff on checkouts in supermarkets nowadays are over retirement age

Probably part time. My English nan still works a couple of days a week to supplement her pension and she's 74. In fact it's her birthday today so she's 75.

happy birthday Coca Fola's nan!

on a slightly related note, i was surprised to discover that despite this country being filthy rich, the pension age is actually 67.

Cheers.  :)

Maybe if more did we'd have 47% of people under 24 out of work as well, just like Bosnia. (The overall figure is 43%, which means there's a lot of lazy bastards, or old fuckers are stopping others from working).

Indeed...which is another reason moving the retirement age is a bad thing...you'll have kids leaving university unable to get jobs, or a house...or anything else and stay living with parents for how long?!

'Tis crazy, I tell thee.

A thread started about shoe repair shops in Swindon has now turned into thread about unemployment figures in Bosnia.

Good work, TEF.

Tsk, was but a natural progression...

I couldn't justify spending that much on a pair of shoes. I'd like to be able to, but I wear down the outside of my heels in around 6 months.

You may well have had them resoled today, but if not, we always use the cobbler on Moredon Road.

Try stop walking like a spaz? :D

Are they tartan?

Thanks Vince

Simply no jobs out there at the moment!

Like a lot of places. We think we've got it tough with unemployment, can't imagine what it would be like with nearly half of the labour force unemployed.