Early Editions.

Finally, my pair of holy grails (the red pair) arrived in the mail this morning. Gotta thank the seller for being patient with me while I waited tirelessly for my buyers to make payment. Bought the other 2 pairs off this fella in London. It is near impossible to find these pairs nowadays, let alone one in your size. So a pair in used condition will do just fine. A deadstock pair in my size would probably fetch around US$350-400 today.

And I missed the red pair when he put them up on eBay. So I tracked down the person who bought it. And I had to pay close to 3 times the amount of what he paid (don't ask how much, my mouth's zipped). Checked the packing to slip to see where he came from. Surprise, surprise - Hong Kong, where resellers are bred.

I'm darn sure he bought 4 pairs of early editions at a cheap price from the same guy in London only to resell them at a higher price. I know, 'cos we exchanged quite a number of emails trying to come to a price (to satisfy his greed). He kept reiterating what these babies are worth in the market, blah blah. Let's not get anywhere near the topic of reselling 'cos I can write an award winning thesis on that.

Thanks again to Simon for the equally-impossible-to-acquire t-shirt. Now, I have a matching top to go with the wovens. Yay!

No more shoes until the turn of the year. Okay, maybe just one more. And I'll be needing alot of luck to be able to land a pair at retail. Come on Ricardo, you can do it one more time. It wouldn't hurt.

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