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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I have a pair of Johnston & Murphy (shitty shoes, but nevertheless) rubber-soled shoes that I wear when the weather is like it's been all week: 5 inches of snow and cold. I don't have rubbers. If I wear the leather-soled shoes, I have to walk more slowly b/c I get absolutely no traction on the ice. And the salt completely destroys them. Plus, the rubber soles appear to be leather from a distance.
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There's no shame in that. I have several pair of rubber soled Franco Sartos that I wear quite often, but not when I'm wearing a suit or something a step up from the ordinary business casual. It was a dry day, and these shoes were not of the type that look like leather soles from a distance. They were Rockportesque, and in several cases they were worn at the heels.
My point is just that these men overlooked the simplest detaiil when they intended to dress "up" from the norm. They must mistakenly believe that nobody notices shoes. In a sense, that's true: I tend only to notice a man's shoes when they're wrong.
