March, 29th, 2013

Northamp ton | Mark Jeffery and Guy West | JEFFERY WEST

“You do get people who turn their nose up at us a bit because we’re making shoes in Northamp ton but they’re not the traditional toe-cap Oxford, or classic Brogue, but why on earth would we want to try to be Crockett and Jones, Trickers, or Church’s, they’re already doing it; if you want a classic English shoe, I wouldn’t hesitate to say go and buy one from Crockett and Jones, Trickers, or Church’s, whereas if you come to us you’re buying that manufacturing his tory but it’s with our h andwriting, our twist, our slant on it.”

Regency d andies, fin de siecle decadence, twentieth century subculture and pop culture, literary and filmic references and a whole swath of swashbucklers, wits, hell raisers both influence and inspire the Jeffery West designs and give their names to styles and lasts including Keith Richards, Steve Marriot, Terence Stamp, Oliver Reed, Peter O’Toole, Brian Jones, Jarvis Cocker, Bryan Ferry, Roger Moore, Richard Bur ton, Richard Harris, Bram S toker, Aleister Crowley, Flashman from George Mac donald Fraser’s books, Beau Brummell, and Francis Dashwood (later the 5th Baron le Despenser) founder of the most infamous of the clubs to bear the name The Hellfire Club in the eighteenth century. Of the latter West says, “he was an aris tocrat, a man of influence, but also the rogue of his day.”

Jeffery West & Co Ltd

City House, 43 Clif tonville Road
Northamp ton, NN1 5HQ UK
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