Before & After: Color change on KF&S Full Grain Oxfords!

In this video I stretched my boundaries by re-dying a pair of Kilgour, French & Stanbury full grain leather quarter brogue Oxfords I picked up at a local thrift store. I used Feibings Leather dye to change the shoes from their light brown to burgundy. As with all of my before-and-afters, I give them a thorough cleaning and spit shine too. I also discus the history of the company now just known as "Kilgour", a high-end English Savile Row clothing company. I also discus who I think the actual maker may be (KG&F didn't make their own shoes).

Although I didn't say this in the video, you may notice the shoes are a size 13D. I usually wear an 11.5 or 12 ee or eee, but the shoes are actually SHORTER in length than my Allen Edmonds Park Avenues (65 Last) size 11.5 3e! They are about the same width at the ball. At first I thought since the shoes are made in England, that they were UK size 13, but that doesen't make sense because a 13 UK would be like a US 13.5.

I refer to Kirby Allison's website and YouTube channel:
His website: www.thehangerproject.com
His Youtube Channel:    / @kirbyallison  

Here are some of my videos I reference:
"How to Date Allen Edmonds Shoes"
   • How to Date Allen Edmonds Shoes  

"Saddle Soap: Why? What’s in it?"
   • Saddle Soap: Why? What’s in it?  

Here are 3 videos where I first dabbled in dying shoes:
"Restoring terribly salt stained J&Ms with Patina"
   • Restoring terribly salt stained J&Ms ...  

"How I put a Patina on my old Bostonian Loafers"
   • How I put a Patina on my old Bostonia...  

"How I put Burnishing/Patina back on a shoe"
   • How I put Burnishing/Patina back on a...  
I apologize, although I believe all of my videos have good content, you'll see that the farther back you go, the worse quality the production and sound is in my videos is (I'm learning as I go!).

The first 4 songs are from YouTube's audio library free music:
https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/...
1."Big Blues" by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
Artist: http://audionautix.com/
2. "Fortunate Son" by Silent Partner
3. "Diskofunque" by Francis Preve
4. "Elite_Syncopations" by E's Jammy Jams

5. "Another Happy Ending"
Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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