Northampton | 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 Northampton 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 history but it’s with our handwriting, our twist, our slant on it.”

Regency dandies, 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 Burton, Richard Harris, Bram Stoker, Aleister Crowley, Flashman from George Macdonald 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 aristocrat, a man of influence, but also the rogue of his day.”

Jeffery West & Co Ltd

City House, 43 Cliftonville Road
Northampton, NN1 5HQ UK
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