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Recommend a shoe

  • 05-04-2016 12:44pm
    #1
    HamsterFace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 832 ✭✭✭


    Good afternoon gentleman,

    My posting of some years requires that I wear a full suit so of course formal footwear is important.

    As someone who lives in the suburbs and works in the city I tend to walk a fair bit every day, to and from public transport and the office. Let's say a good hour a day.

    And I am flying through shoes and am having to replace within the year. Most prominently the heals but also the tops tend to wear.

    Can anyone recommend a durable yet stylish shoe that, in your experience, will last and doesn't cost as much as your suit!

    With thanks,
    Hamster


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  • #2
    tritium
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,455 ✭✭✭tritium


    HamsterFace wrote: »
    Good afternoon gentleman,

    My posting of some years requires that I wear a full suit so of course formal footwear is important.

    As someone who lives in the suburbs and works in the city I tend to walk a fair bit every day, to and from public transport and the office. Let's say a good hour a day.

    And I am flying through shoes and am having to replace within the year. Most prominently the heals but also the tops tend to wear.

    Can anyone recommend a durable yet stylish shoe that, in your experience, will last and doesn't cost as much as your suit!

    With thanks,
    Hamster

    A different solution, but one that works for me- leave your shoes in the office/ in your bag and use runners or comfy shoes for walking to and from the office.


  • #3
    HamsterFace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 832 ✭✭✭HamsterFace


    tritium wrote: »
    A different solution, but one that works for me- leave your shoes in the office/ in your bag and use runners or comfy shoes for walking to and from the office.

    I should and it makes more sense but could never keep it up!


  • #4
    mynameis905
    Closed Accounts Posts: 754 ✭✭✭mynameis905


    If you're wearing a suit and doing a lot of walking you'll need shoes with dainite soles. Leather soles are slightly more elegant but don't wear as well, they're treacherous in the rain and you'll get the shock of your lifetime if you're not used to them and are expecting something as comfortable as a bouncy rubber sole.

    You'll also need two pairs of shoes to alternate between - wearing the same shoes everyday will ruin them very quickly, particularly if you're doing serious walking in them.

    Take a look at the English makers like Barker, Loake 1880 and Cheaney. Run a mile from anything with a square toe and don't expect them to be as comfortable as runners. The likes of Ecco/Rockport etc will be comfortable but also fúck ugly. They'll crease within a few days of wearing them and be fit for the bin inside of 9 months. Avoid like the plague.

    Two good pairs of English shoes, some leather cream, shoe polish and a set of shoe trees and you'll be set for the next 5-10 years or so. Dainite wears like iron so I'd be surprised if they needed to be resoled more than once every five years.


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