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Samuel Windsor handmade shoes, Sunday Times offer, received Thursday 12th October

From:     Remi
Category: Consumer
Date:     13 October 2006
Time:     08:16 PM

Review:

Have been intrigued by this offer of handmade shoes in the Sunday Times for a while, and now that I 
have to make myself presentable to patients, I thought it a good time to give it a try. Seems too good 
to be true, 2 pairs of handmade leather shoes for £100. Where's the catch? And you can give them 
back within a month for full refund even if worn. Well the stitching on my brown pair of Oxfords seems 
to have caught on something, and the colour is not as luxurious as advertised in the picture. The black 
brogues look okay. They don't blow me away, but they fit the bill. The accompanying leaflets are 
emphatic about the handmaking credentials of the company, but I started wondering, so what if they 
are handmade? Does that make them necessarily better, maybe machines are better than humans 
for making shoes. Perhaps they have perfected the art. Nonetheless, the shoes smell great, and they 
feel comfortable, so I feel quite hopeful about them. Let's see what happens.


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