I still cry thinking about the time I was walking up some stairs that were concrete in BRAND NEW, like I had about 35 steps taken in them, Hugo Boss shoes and I scrapped the tip of the left one against the concrete of the stair. I didn’t even want to look. I got home and threw them in the shoe bags theyt came in and haven’t touched them since. This was in 07 IIRC.
Yeah. Matt has some BALLER ass shit, can’t deny that. I’m most likely going to him for a suit for my cousins wedding. The few dress shirts that I had him make for me I ALWAYS got compliments on as I went with a really different pattern.
I can totally understand the comfort and better made part. My logic was more in that every year you can get a new style or design of shoe since trends change versus sticking with one for so long. Or if you spend $400 on 4 pairs of shoes you can put in a rotation you have variety and you won’t be wearing them out so quick.
hopefully this post is cougarspeed approved :noes:
another thing to invest in is some good pairs of shoe trees.
i have dollar store plastic ones that suck but also a decent set of wood ones that are wicked. you’ve got to have a pair of wooden ones for every good pair of shoes you have…and you have to put vibrams or similar soles on leather soled shoes to get any grip… so in essence, you have to add $80 to the cost of any good shoe right off the bat… frowny face
That is not universally true.
something like those double monks turbotsi posted, or a really great pair of black dress shoes in particular, are the staple of staple shoes… you always need to have these shoes so investing in a couple great pairs and maintaining them well is much better than getting a new shit pair every year.
it’s similar to a good watch.
in fact, maybe not so much with shoes, but certainly with good suits or cashmere sweaters, they can last more than a generation if you buy great quality and apply proper maintenence. By that i mean you can hand them down to your kids. My dad and i are basically the same size. If he had any awesome vintage shit worth wearing i’d totally gank it form him… just like i do with tools
Makes sense. I have 2-3 pairs of ~100 shoes that I wear for daily use or whatever and then a really nice pair I linked that I wear for high visibility events and such. I commented on it is because these threads constantly turn to debate about IF and WHY this person needs such item. That is not what he asked and not what the thread was about. I just wanted it on topic is all.
Nothing special, but my favorite pair of shoes that I own. they are the most comfortable dress show that I own…I haven’t had to do the sole other than heel savers.
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I usually destroy 5-6 $100 pairs of shoes in one season at work…I probably walk 4-5 miles in one week at work. It suckssssss but my cobbler takes good care of me.
No idea, I just found them while I was browsing shoes (not actually buying yet either)
I’m always browsing for shoes…I bought my favorite Florsheims from this old man named Victor at a shoe store in the Southgate plaza once. I went in just looking to see what they had and I found a pair that I wanted. I asked Victor if he had them in stock, we got to talking and before i knew it, he is refusing to sell me the shoes I wanted.
Long story short, he knew they wouldn’t be a good, comfortable shoe for my type of job and he sold me the right pair of shoes after a brief argument in his store. I always go to him before I buy a pair of shoes, just to see if he can get them for me. He offers free cobbler visits for me to his favorite, its pretty awesome!
I’m should have a price on those double monks this week, but from what I can gather, they will be $800+ from similar styles of Scarpe di Bianco’s on the net. That’s a bit out of my range, but always nice to have in the back of my mind.
Where have you had the best luck finding good prices on your shoes?
i made my first online shoe purchase off styleforum.net last week… the 3 pairs of AE’s. They’ll arrive next week.
there was a hot pair of Jil Sander double monks in black that sold quick at $190 like new, but worn a few times… in my size… msrp north of $600. I would have ganked those.
i’m not so sure i want to be buying shoe online really so i’m just testing the waters right now. I’d really prefer to try them on and would pay more for something i could touch and feel. that said, sometimes the pricing on-line is too good. i bought 5 cashmere sweaters off ebay in the last 3 weeks… wearing one right now… 4 of 5 were dead on… the 5th i gave to my mom since it was too big for me.
Not to mention with some internet sites you won’t know if they are fakes or not. I’m not taking that chance on a $400 pair of shoes.
I agree about being able to try them on, the only thing that sucks is almost nobody in the Buffalo area carries high end shoes, and if they do, they don’t have all the styles, especially the ones I’m interested in.
boots costed me a bottle of mad dog to guy working on the local military base. been holding up for over a year now and will prob get another pair sometime. but military boots last forever. these get worn 7 days a week 12-16hrs a day in a shop environment. the bellevilles are lot lighter than the old rockies made military boots, but not good for welding as some of the nylon breathers will allow hot embers to pass through.
