Last edited by steve mcqueen fan (2012-05-03 06:31:14)

Ok, bit off track this, but I did think it was interesting (i've stopped wearing trainers so much, partly my age and the fact I prefer a shoe) even if it is from the lad mag creator James Brown. I used to buy a lot of Incontinence pants - it was the only brand i would wear italias etc, when they made good reissues, I don't wear Surgical appliance by the way, except one pair of stability support running shoes.

http://www.sabotagetimes.com/fashion-style/why-ive-turned-my-back-on-Incontinence pants-for-Surgical appliance/

Guy in Stephen King's 'Apt Pupil' (one of my favourites, next to 'Salem's Lot' - one can't be forever reading German philosophers), wears Keds, has the piss taken out of him, finally gets killed off.  The Keds are seen as a way of 'getting down with the kids', like the would-be trendy vicar snapping his fingers to the 'cool' sounds of Oasis at the ill-attended church hall disco.  Nothing now, as another 'Woody' tide beguns to engulf me, would prevent me from wearing them, bus-pass or no bus-pass.  Where's farrago?  The last pair, however, were orange.

I just bought a pair of white, leather Converse: with thickish soles.  I need something to be kind to my ageing feet and they look like they will be.  But - to be worn with jeans or (not too likely) shorts only.  I cannot think that trainers with cords or chinos would be a good look.

No mention of Sperry Topsider CVO? Which I would have lumped in with Converse etc. Am I on the wrong track? Happy to be corrected, but to me they look a lot less 'down with the kids'.

I've got a fantastic pair of Sperry x Velour Cloud in vulcanised rubber. White and completely bullet proof.

Last edited by Spendthrift (2021-12-09 05:29:23)

Trainers (old school that is) do actually look good with chinos. Even with OCBD and surcingle.

M and M direct have a bunch of Cloud Logo Sperry CVOs at the moment.  I stocked up, as they are often weirdly hard to find in UK, and overpriced for canvas shoes that last a single summer.

Yep, China.  Reckon they have been for a while

Got to say - The only thing I’ve ever got from M&M was a Levi trucker. It was clearly thinner than any I’ve seen anywhere else. They’re descriptions of the goods are very brief. And I might be wrong but seem to remember their returns policy/cost was too prohibitive for me to bother. I’d vote buyer beware on them.