Beatnik rocks monkstrap Wallabees.

Recently l haven't been able to stop wearing them. Sometimes l don't want to give them the time of day, other times l simply can't get enough of them. Nothing like a single monk with a big buckle of them; they say `these are different, the buckles in your face, and you can get fucked if you don't like it'.

l never used to like Monks as a boy, l always thought they looked queer.

l can understand how many people would hate them.

l'm a shooman and have a large collection of shoos, so i'm open to variety. l'd pretty much wear most shoe designs if the shoes were good leather and welted.

Monk strap shoes are like turtleneck sweaters for me.  Too Euro and effete for my taste, but there are certainly men that can pull off the look quite well.

They can be boring businessman(single strap) or sockless satorialist in 'rolled up for paddling' trousers(double strap)

Thst said, I do have black single strap( Bexley), suede single strap in EG Oundle style(Cheaney) and Lobb double strap (Chapel). I would not mind another pair of double strap.

Never wore them early in life, don't now, but when I took my decade-long diversion into "the world of fashion" and fashionable dress, I wore them frequently. That says enough to me.

But I certainly don't mind others wearing them as some look very good.

always thought they looked weird. when i was an apprentice, an instructor came in to class one day wearing those things with flood pants. when we asked what the hell was wrong with him, he explained that his wife was making him get a vasectomy and had made him dress up for his appointment. now, i associate them with being forced to have your balls disconnected.