Wesco x S&S Van Cleef III

I always appreciated the Van Cleef makeup from S&S. I really wanted a lighter color engineer boot. While I was waiting for my order to be made (long Wesco leadtime) S&S released some Mister Lous in Maryam Natural horsebutt. I just happened to mention to my contact that they looked great, and she offered to change my leather if I wanted since Wesco hadn’t started the actual build. I’m a sucker for Maryam horsebutt and that color the natural turns is a favorite, so I jumped at the chance. Kudos to S&S for being flexible, suggesting it, and just all around being amazing.

I was a little unlucky before ordering this pair and super lucky with this pair. I mis-sized Mister Lous….twice because of my high instep, and still the 12E in the Mister Lou Horsehide still was too tight across my instep. Not just for getting on, but pain after I’d wear them for awhile and it never got better after many wears. I was worried about these because I had ordered these before I finally gave up on the 12E in the standard horsehide. But this pair in the horsebutt fit great. A noticeable difference in the instep versus both 12E mister lou horsehides I tried. Maybe I was just lucky, but I’ll definitely take it.

I actually ordered these for some #2, but it was right around the time that Wesco kept extending and extending their production times. Ended up taking almost exactly a year. So they sat in a box in my closet for 10 months. But S&S was super communicative through the process.