So next up, we have offerings from an Italian brand Scarosso. Mine is a
tobacco brown loafer. I believe the specific model name was Raimondo Sigaro
Scamosciato. R: Alright, alright yeah, it's funny you say that because I think
Scarosso is in fact a German brand but they're made in Italy and I have that
whole spiel about everything like Italian. R: So they embrace the Italian
heritage, If you want to call it that. R: Absolutely, absolutely. Yeah
mine is something called Andrea Moro and it's likewise a loafer. I've
had Scarosso shoes for years, I think that the first impression of this was
unusual in a sense because it has a woven leather. It's not that many brands
that offer that P: mm-hmm R: That's a little more unusual. P: Right.
Absolutely. My first impressions for this were that it was a nice color. I did
like the tobacco brown. I think it's a little bit different than what you might
see in the brown colors from some other loafers.The toe of these I did
immediately notice was a little bit more square than you'll see on a lot of other
loafers have, so that's another point that makes them a bit more unique but I
did like it for that reason. R: Yeah I think mine is a little more
rounded right, so they have many different loafer lasts. Price-wise,
this is like $325. Some weren't a higher narrow spectrum but woven leather makes
things more expensive because there are no machines that can do that to my
knowledge and then this is actually woven like of an element in the shoe where it's
like embossed so it's different. So typically woven leather shoes, if it's
really woven are more expensive just by default. How much for yours? Mine were $255
R: Okay, so fifty bucks less basically
because you have a suede for system in terms of workmanship I didn't have any
complaints with these once again the stitching did seem to be fairly even.
R: yeah it's a blake construction, right? all of their shoes are that, not most
Italians don't do Goodyear just like the English do Goodyear,
Italians do like Blake, Blake Rapid. That's just what they do. P: Right, One thing I did
notice actually is that there was on one of the soles here, there's a slight piece
where there's a little bit of a gap in between some of the pieces of leather in
the sole. R: Okay. Oh yeah, interesting yet it maybe
just a glue, doesn't hold. In the stitching on mine goes up until here. On
yours I think it'd look ahh it's hard to see because they already put the
leather sole over it. P: Correct. R: I think sizing wise I got a 44 in this one
typically I've more like 45 or like US 11 but that's really fits me really well
especially in a loafer. I have still some toe room. It's not off. P: mm-hmm R: yeah,
just a soft shoe compared to maybe a Moral Code. Much softer, right or
Beckett Simonon. At the same time I think it still keeps its shape well. Yep
and also for the old shoes that I've had over the years.
P: Good to know. I got it this one in a size 4. I'm a little bit new to European
sizing as well more accustomed to US shoe sizes, so being able to know your
size and convert, you know, that's important too. R: Yeah the same time I find
even sometimes within brands it can change depending on the last, right? P: right.
R: Yeah so it's all relative. It really helps if you know your shoe size
and one thing, so if you have any of the shoes that we cover here you can choose
the other pairs based on that sizing right and that's what's always helps to
know what size we get in each shoe and how they fit so we can can kind of gauge what would work
for us and what wouldn't. P: Right. I think the fit for these for me was generally
pretty good. Again being a loafer they were a little bit on the looser side but
definitely not to as great a degree as some of the other loafers. R: Any
chafing for you there? P: No, no chafing, no problems with rubbing on the bone,
there's a little bit of heel slippage but again with a little bit of a
modification, maybe putting a tongue pad in and I'm assuming I could totally alleviate
that and they would fit just fine. R: Yeah, I mean the cool thing I got here but woven
leather is that you know it's actually woven so it's like little holes it
should be more breathable which is nice in the summer. P: right R: but then they put in
a full leather lining in it which counteracts and if they had kind of
thought about it and perforate it it would have been even better, I think.
P: mm-hmm. R: Otherwise, yeah it's a more low profile on the side. It's kind of a sleek,
like I have these other shoes from them. They're like, olive green tassel loafers
and they're also very slim and sleek and overall have held up really well over
the years despite the soles being so thin and the leather being soft.
They still kept the structure of the look so frankly, if I look at their
classic dress shoe range, I'm not impressed. So for those I'd probably give
them like three and a half out of five stars. P: mm-hmm R: just because I don't like
the look that much but for the loafers, all of their loafers I had, I think it's
like four or four and a quarter stars. I think they just are nice and what I
would want in like a summer elegant loafer that is comfortable. P: mm-hmm yeah I
think this was a great shoe option, certainly. The fit was not a hundred
percent as I said and there were some slight construction issues with the sole
coming apart so I gave these ultimately a four out of five and there are not
many issues I probably would have gone even higher with these.