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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
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BUTCHER BOY SHOES

Hello, I would like to know what kind of shoes are these "butcher shoes" here:
'I liked the dress style of Fred Astaire and Cary Grant back then, so I created a kind of hip, quasi-black English look: Brooks Brothers suites, BUTCHER BOY SHOES, high top pants, shirts with high tab collars ...'
Someone would help me?
Thanks in advance, Jo
  

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Yipes! No idea. The only online reference is the same you are reading, the Miles Davis autobiography.

— Mister Micawber

  • Yipes!
  • No idea.
  • The only online reference is the same you are reading, the Miles Davis autobiography.
  • ' Butcher Boy ' googles up a book and a movie that were both written after the Miles Davis book, so it can't be they.
  • There is an old 1917 comedy of the same name that could have a pair of old high-topped shoes in it somewhere.
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Yipes! No idea. The only online reference is the same you are reading, the Miles Davis autobiography. 'Butcher Boy' googles up a book and a movie that were both written after the Miles Davis book, so it can't be they. There is an old 1917 comedy of the same name that could have a pair of old high-topped shoes in it somewhere.

I give up. I leave this search to younger spirits.
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Miles Davis is again referenced here:

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Jazz Poems for Miles Davis

So where did you cop the blues
if it wasn't in your Butcher shoes
and Brooks Bros. Suits? Did you find it
in a dimebag? You didn't buy the myth
of living like Bird to fly like the Bird.

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