Brown tortoise shell Jasper Conran glasses (in a Harry Palmer style)
White Brooks OCBD
'no name' Black cashmere V neck (with a nice deep V)
Levi 1947 501's
Plain dark blue socks
Vintage Cordo Florsheim brogues with the thickest leather soles I've ever worn (an absolute bargain online from the States)


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Great stuff Chris. When I bought my first pair of Playboys a couple of years ago, one of my first associations was "Teddy Boys". Not that I was planning to wear 'em like them. These shoes have popped up in many subcultures since, see Quality of Crepes and other threads on here.

Back to this thread: I'm wearing the Sanders "Superbuck" Chukkas. I imagine these are not for wide feet. The somewhat pointed toe acts as a reminder that one should cut toenails with regularity.

^ I like to throw in a Wallabee (low tops preferably).
It doesn't surprise me to find like minded people from another continent and century did so as well. That's a lovely nugget of information, cheers.

Has anyone made any greater attempt to mythologize Clark's than the Wu Tang, the tradliest of all hip-hop collectives (jokes, jokes, jokes)?

As evidence, I offer Raekwon's advice on tricking out your Wallabies:

"Boom, yo I got a crazy idea how to do Clarks now
Check it out, boom, this how you freak em, boom
You go get you go get the cream joints right? Boom
Now now, all you all you dye, is this shit right here
Boom, and this, yaknowhatI'msayin? Any color you want
But it'd be like, blue and cream, yaknowhatI'msayin?"

From Raekwon's Glaciers of Ice off of Only Built 4 Cuban Linx.

Of course that is not the only time the Wu has glorified Clark's.

Ghostface Killah:

"Headed to aisle four, damn I got milk on my Clark's
That's what I get, not focusing, from hitting that bar
My mouth dried, need plenty water quick, I feel like a shark
In the aisle, busting them paper towels and wiping my Wally's down"

And of course Method Man:

"Follow me, Wu-Tang gotta be
The best thing since stocks in Clark Wallabees"

Brownshoe, I too have a pair of the immortally ugly Desert Treks. I've even had them re-soled. I love the leather on them and they do look good with jeans. However, my love for unsightly seam waxes and wanes.