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“But what it shows me is that I can’t wear the vast majority of it any more. It’s all made-to-measure suits and shirts and ties and bench-made shoes that I just can’t see myself wearing outside the occasional wedding as the winds of style have changed. It’s like a museum.”

The piece is bench-made and carries on the reverse many marks of the file used in its final assembly.

In many of the early bench-made plates, the final assemblyman marked the matching pairs so that they could readily be re-paired after buffing and plating.

At Leffot, the men’s shoe boutique in the West Village, wingtips represent fully 25 percent of the four dozen styles available, from wingtip Wolverine work boots for $350 to bench-made British long wing brogues — that is, with brogued leather adornments covering the shoe from toe to heel — by Edward Green for $1,125.

He crosses his legs, letting the toe of his bench-made oxford dangle a little above the floor and occasionally�at moments of infrequent agitation�allowing it to graze the surface of the carpet underfoot.