Last edited by Kingstonian (2010-07-26 03:12:44)

Last edited by fxh (2010-07-26 05:17:40)

Popeye, welcome to the forum! I have found, in my experience of wearing balmoral boots, which is extensive, having owned a pair of balmoral boots since 1968, which was the year my cousin Charles Fotheringay graduated from Harvard, and eventually went on to become a vice-president at our family savings bank in Terre Haute, that a socking is indicated in most cases and that furthermore, in a hot-weather summer type situation, in which the temperature often becomes rather high, and thus causes the feet to sweat, that a balmoral boot worn socklessly often offers a rather inferior comfort type utility, and that undue perspiration of the footward member can also cause damage to the fine footwear leathers, and that it is therefore incumbent upon me to disrecommend such a pursuit, although of course YMMV, though I think fondly and often of the fact that, on my shelf, in my boot closet, beneath my more robust winter bootings a pair of excellent balmoral boots still rests, beneath a flannel footwear bag, where I left them after wearing them to the Ponderosa steakhouse in the company of my lovely wife and my surviving parents, who enjoyed an evening of splendid dinings, despite the unpleasantness of seeing a Person wearing dungaree shorts and a graphic undershirt; I understand that among the best people dungaree shorts are considered a "false pas" and that also, they might begin to look unfavorably upon a Person who would wear balmoral boot without a socking, if only because Gentlemen respect the quality of their fine shoe-leathers and do not wish to see them abused, although with my son in law Gary, who once visited Harvard, little care is often taken of shoe maintenance and leather nourishments :-)

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