Hallo friends of leather shoes,
- I have this pair of 'Derby Wingtip Brogue Calf' shoes made to my measures by my shoemaker in Islamabad (1).
- Btw. my name 'Knirim' comes from 'Knie-Riemen', a leather strap that the shoemakers used to fix the shoe on their knee to work bothhanded (2).
So I am historically oblieged to wear hand made shoes, elegant and well fitting for town strolling (not for the bush walks).
Konrad
PS1: to my personal name history I add an extract of Berlin adressbook of 1939 with all these different name versions. My father Ewald is the second last entry.
Btw. he was not a shoemaker but a clark in a government office, but was kicked out in 1935 as he, a practicing catholic, refused to join the Nazi party (I still have the documents).
PS2: And a grand grand uncle of mine, Wilhelm, emigrated with wife, mother and brother in 1862 to the US and founded the little town Knierim in Iowa, where Bonny & Clyde robbed the Knierim bank in 1934:
And sorry, if a shoe thread is welcome in an Omega Watch Forum (
@TexOmega fit it best) then a shoemakers family name history may also be ok for this thread.