Oh WOW!!! Those photos are pure gold! l will save them all.

l wish men still had proper stitched dress shoos/boots with all leather heels, and it makes me extremely sad when l see what most men wear on their feet these days because it is disgusting. What is so bad about wearing a good pair of shoos, do people think it comes across as elite-ist? Why don't people grow up and start dressing like men instead of meatheads, panzies, frumps and big girls.  Wyhy not let it all hang out and rock a pair of stitched bastards like blokes used to do when they weren't afraid to be a man. l am sure that if these logs in rubber soled shoos and sneakers actually wore a nice pair of stitched shoes that they would feel great.

We have gone from a nation of stitched sole shoo wearers to a nation of glued rubber sole nubs in little over 40 years. Even in the 80's you could still find decent stitched footwear around, but now there isn't so much around, but look!...the flood of sneakers and cheap footwear grows day by day. Even worse...the old people (they always wore the old stitched shoos) are now wearing sneakers and cheap rubbish. Life is far too short to wear rubbish on your feet....they are by far the most important object you can buy and no expense should be spared. Every man should have at least two rtw shoos with stitched on soles and a third pair personally made for him for special occasions.

l dream of those days when men wore great shoos coming back, but l think the dreaded infliction of cheap shoos is here to stay. l saw a photo recently of our city - it had a 70's photo and a 2012 photo...the 70's pic showsed a sea of great leather shoos (elegant with the soles stitched on) worn by men and women alike, but the 2012 pic showed the dramatic decline in footwear because there was a sea of sneakers and a sea of chunk rubber soles shoes with glued soles.

It's time people woke up and got their priorities right. No more sneakers outside of sport, and no more chunky gluyed sole shoos unless you are a blue collar worker. Time to get back to footwear with stitched on soles.