I get a real giggle out of the average joes reaction to conservative dress shoos. I know plenty of blokes who wear ordinary shoes, and when they see something like bespoke or Vass they seem confused because they sneak looks at your shoos and stare at them when they think you don't know. I think they know they are good shoes, but they have never seen anything like it LOL and don't know what to make of it.

Eg 1 - I have a good mate who only wears plastic sandals. Yet every time he sees me he sneaks a look at my shoes as soon as he sees me. He knows l wear good traditional shoes and he never says anything, but he comes across like he has seen the 8th wonder of the world or a ghost.

Eg 2 - I meditate with my mate (an aussie) and many Asians and we leave our shoes at the front door. The room is full of plastic flip flops and sandals worth probably $10 each, but among those shoes are a pair of highemnd dress shoes with shoe trees. Various people see them and the look on their face and how they stare at them is priceless. They don't dare say anything, they just stare at them stunned. I piss myself laughing inside. Then l play it up by using a shoe horn when l put the shoos on and they get totally buzzed out.

Eg 3 - I help out a band sometimes and everyone has crap shoes on, but l notice people taking secret looks and staring when they think l don't know. One mate simply put his head down when he was talking to me and couldn't keep his eyes off my shoos, but they are too scared to say anything. I get such a kick out of the reaction. I even played mind games where l turned up to this band for 2 years and wore a different pair of shoos each week to buzz people out. And you know they are thinking..."how many shoes does this guy have, holy sh*t".

This goes on all the time. People will check your shoos on the sly but never dare bring the subject up.

When l invited friends down to the beach house and had 7 pairs sitting around, one mate said, "gee you have lots of shoos", and l said "do you think, nah...only a few pairs". If they only knew the extend of it.

Naturally not everyone is like that, but the people who wear crap shoes get totally buzzed out. I laugh my head off and play up to the role and they know no different, it's priceless the reactions. People are buzzed out how such an ordinary down to Earth aussie bloke can be wearing such decadent snob shoos. Can't wait to gage the reaction to my navy bespoke alligators...that's going to be a total hoot mate.

Last edited by The_Shooman (2014-06-07 23:16:30)