_______ _______, Stan!
I have antipathy to dress shoes, almost every kind made, including wingtips, longwings, spectators, saddle shoes, and bluchers. I realize I'm in the minority here, but I don't like the way they look and I don't like them on my feet. I also dislike white bucks--too flashy--although I like and wear tan bucks.
I also wear blucher mocs, boat shoes, desert boots, loafers, and sneakers (trainers). I own a pair of brown leather bluchers, and I wear them when I must (with suits for interviews and funerals and such).
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/\ haha great post
I like sneakers and mocs
boots and penny loafers
shoes ... I like Alden/Brooks leisure handsewn moccasins .... might possibly have mentioned them a time or two before in a different thread, about Ivy stuff we love .....
I also hate the way plain-collar shirts mess up so many good old movies though once in a while I wear them
but as a tennis collar, so I don't make myself mad at ... myself
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I'll add something else to my meh-not-so-much list: patchwork madras. Anything. Shirts, jackets, shorts. Madras I like; patchwork, no--then again I'm not much of a quilt blanket fan either.
Well spotted, RMP... hahaha...
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I'm mostly upset by your hatred of quilt blankets.
What are those fugly vintage Bass laceups called? Sportsocassins or something. I'm not a fan.
In fact, I've totally gone off cheap loafers, despite their being one of the most common elements of the look at its peak of popularity.
/\ honeydew or honey don't?
poor old Carl Perkins:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVnSb2drVJw
Now, I have to waffle (I've been known to do so). I do like patchwork tweed flatcaps. Love them, in fact.
I must wear my Sportocasins more - just for Yuca haha. They are a very decisive shoe but I likes em. I don't dislike my Weejuns - all are NOS Maine made so better than the new stuff, they had either the plastic heal plug or all leather heal and wear well.
Personally I am not a huge fan of the overly conservative look, it just looks a bit... bland? The only person who really pulls off that look for me is Ox, to me it looks a bit Marks and Spencer in the 80s, not that look from the old Brooks catalogues or the Stanley Blacker ads which I see as being the pinnacle of the style along with the photos of all those jazz greats photographed by Francis Wolff.