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I agree with the comment about clothes being a store for memories.

...but at time it reads like, what I consider to be a female perspective.

I don't know any men who behave like some of those described above, I do know several women who do, I'm married to one...

That's a fairly in depth tome.

Where we send the Mormons.

Best part of the state, along with Park City in ski season!

Can anyone tell me about the Endicott and Johnson?

I think wiith shoes, they are the one article of a man's wardrobe, where playing it conservative within the lasts of quality and tradition, is always the way to go with no exceptions. I can't think of any ocassion, social, work or one off event - unless I was attending a fetish ball - where peacock flamboyance and straying from the known hues from black to brown (and #8 burgundies) in sturdy brogues, gibson, chukka or other mainstream styles would be desired.

Fxh: EXCELLENT article. l am still reading it and l am enjoying it immensely.

l'll never forget what my fashion conscious coisen said to me many years ago. He said the great thing about black school shoes "is that they are never in fashion or our of fashion, they are just there". This statement made a lifelong impression on me and l think about it regularly when wearing black oxford captoes. Oxford captoes can be worn with trousers and a shirt, a suit, and even jeans, and not look dopey - it's a boring shoe and it is just there. They remind me of my friends old school shoes l sometimes rave about here.

l can't express how important l think shoes are. l look at EVERYONE'S and have got it down to a fine art. l would never date a women in bad shoes or sneakers no matter how pretty because bad shoes is a sexless frumpy look that kills everything else. If a man wears bad blobby shoes it makes him look like a dope and a slob.

l find it hard to believe that men own 12 pairs of shoes. Ya know, these days men are just walking cavemen - you show me a bloke and i'll show you a caveman. Even crazier, women marry these blasted cavemen...it tells me that the pretty ones are just female versions of cavemen.

When l used to see those black old fashioned English shoes in the window as a boy l was always intimidated, but it was a sign of being a real man. And now l am a man, and l can prove it because l wear shoes that proper men wear. Unfortunately most men these days are cavemen that look like mere boys. When l walk the footpath l walk fast and loud with authority, and those cavemen realise the real man in the situation and move aside, because if they don't they will be forced aside because l will walk on the back of their heels so their shoo cums off. Doesn't matter if the caveman is 7 foot tall, if he doesn't move aside he becomes the casualty of `the shooman'. l have no time for cavemen/cavewomen that walk slow...off their shoes cum if they don't move aside.

Shoes are worth getting out of bed for. Shoes make a good day much better.

Late edit: l remember one kid wanted a pair of new shoes so he used to cut the soles off with a knife. But each time the old man would glue them back togeather. This went on for months before he got a new pair.

l'll get back to this another day.

Regards: The Shooman.

Last edited by The_Shooman (2013-09-13 03:21:35)

shooey - I dont think black captoes are all that versatile.

The first article suggest to me we should all have a few early childhood /youth etc shoe stories to tell.

I know shooey does.

I have a few, not all that interesting, but stories nonetheless.

People who walk too slow in front of me in stores or on the street are the bane of my existence.

I call them "Meanderthals".

Just finished reading the two articles and enjoyed them very much. l judge a person by the shoes they wear and would like to think l am accurate, but if l saw a person in my shoes l would know my judgement would be way off. My personality is completely different from what my shoes convey imo.

l really appreciate it when people take notice of their shoes and analyse differences in styles. l remember reading a newspaper article about a bunch of donkeys who collect sneakers, but l apprecaited what they had to say because they were more than a bunch of  boofheads wearing sneakers, they were into whether the shoes made their feet big, what messages they were sending out etc (fashion and psychology) - it changed my life because it made me see many boofheads as having a brain and l appreciated that. I thought many young sneaker heads were just drug dealers and brainless boofheads, but they are similar to us guys in their thinking, just more plebish.

And yes, certain shoes do form very special memories that stay with you for life. The time l bought my first Moreschi's was perhaps the highlight of my shoe buying career because it was a 19 year dream realised and l felt like king of the blood world and the world's biggest business executive. l looked at those shoes almost every night for 6 months straight. l still hold them in the highest regard. Those Moreschi's blew my mind beyond imaginable levels for a long time and l was on a high for a long time after that - it marked the time that l had finally made it to the big league....it was my first $500 shoe in the mid 90's, that was a lot of money in those days in Australia for a young bloke like me. After that there was no going back. They still hold the most special place in my heart of all my shoes, and l cherish them and wear them sparingly. Funny enough, l almost wore them today. Then again, l have changed my shoes four times today. Even more crazy, l also hold my Zegna Couture shoes in very high regard because l purchased them down the road from where l got my Moreshci's in snobby Toorak, and it was Toorak that started my big sartorial dreams and made me a real shooman - the Zegna's have that special memory attached that tie to my Moreshci and l value them more than nearly any other shoe l own. It's funny how the mind works.

l had my Bill Clinton shoos (Florsheim black derby captoes), l have my top executive shoos (my Moreshci loafers), l have my Obama shoos (Vass black captoe oxfords) etc. But l never had my George Bush Sr shoes - the navy and grey croc loafers that Bush Sr wore one time. l always held American footwear in high regard because of the old films, so l sometimes named footwear after U.S Presidents. My MTM crocadile boots were inspired by George Bush Jr's inauguration where l still remember a newspaper article saying that Texan alligator boots in the lobby by Werner were selling for 5.5K - it set my world on fire and l have never forgotten it. l dreamed and dreamed and dreamed for years afterwards about the possibilities, and it made me wake up that true highend footwear is very expensive and must therefore be of amazing brilliance and quality. l never knew footwear was so expensive, so it opened my eyes and l was determinded to investigate the world's most highend footwear. Those were BIG dreams for a young bloke.

Fxh...keep the good ones coming mate. Love those shoo articles./

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