Allen Edmonds Cordovan Review: Park Avenue Cap-Toe Dress Shoes In Cordovan | Kirby Allison

Hi, I’m Kirby Allison, in today’s video, we’re going to review the Allen Edmonds Park Avenue in Cordovan.

Recognizing us as one of the leading authorities on luxury men’s dress shoes worldwide, Allen Edmonds has graciously agreed to grant us access to their entire collection of shoes to review for you on this YouTube Channel. They have merely loaned us the shoes, which we appreciate and return after the video is filmed, and have no financial relationship, or an affiliate partnership, whatsoever.

In this review series, we seek to review brands we admire and that we think are good at various price points for our viewers and then explain what we think is good about them. We will not select a brand to review if we think it is no good in the first place. There is plenty of that elsewhere, and it is easy to find on YouTube.

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BRAND OVERVIEW 0:53
Allen Edmonds is one of the few remaining “great American shoemakers,” still making their premium leather dress shoes here in the United States. Allen Edmonds makes an excellent Goodyear welted leather dress shoe that, if properly polished and resoled, can last a lifetime.

SHOE INTRODUCTION 1:45
The Park Avenues in Cordovan are very special shoes and made to a higher standard than Allen Edmond’s standard calfskin shoes. These retail for $695, which is a $270 premium over the same shoe made in calfskin. However, the price is totally substantiated by the cost of the premium materials used in this shoe.

DESIGN 2:34
The Allen Edmonds Park Avenue is a beautiful, elegant, traditional design. It features a three-piece pattern and construction (toe cap, vamp, and back quarters), with elegant single, double and triple-stitching that gives the shoe additional visual detail. The Park Avenue features a traditional, round toe shape for which Allen Edmonds is famous. The Park Avenue is further differentiated as one of only a couple styles with six-eyelets, which beautifully elongates the silhouette.

MATERIAL 4:47
All of Allen Edmond’s cordovan is sourced from Horween Leather in Chicago, the only cordovan leather tanning factory left in the western hemisphere. Horween’s name is synonymous with shell cordovan. On Allen Edmond’s cordovan shoes, both of the finest available in the world today. All of their cordovan shoes are exclusively made with JR Rendenbach oak-bark tanned leather outsoles and heels.

CONSTRUCTION 8:11
Allen Edmond is best-known for their full 360-degree Goodyear welted construction, which allows leather dress shoes to be easily resoled without compromising the integrity of the shoe. The welt is a thin strip of leather that is sewn to the insole. The outsole is then stitched to the welt. This allows the outsole to be pulled off and replaced without damaging the construction of the shoe.

AVAILABLE FINISHES 8:46
The Allen Edmond Park Avenue Cordovan Cap-Toe Oxford comes in three finishes: black, brown, and the iconic Horween cordovan color #8, which they call burgundy. You cannot go wrong with any of these finishes, and you couldn’t go wrong owning them all! But the cordovan color #8, or burgundy, is the iconic color most widely associated with cordovan leather.

SUMMARY AND ENDING 10:37
The Allen Edmonds Park Avenue in Cordovan is a truly iconic American-made shoe that is constructed with the highest quality materials available anywhere in the world. At $695 they are certainly an investment, but one well worth it.

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