Allen Edmonds with the Traveler shoe was able to pull off a "dress sneaker". Although due to the type of rubber it doesnt last. If you hack off the Danite sole on a dress shoe and put a Vibram Christy outsole you can have a sleeper dress sneaker. But this is also where the PAcific Northwest Boots, Italian, Portugese boots come in. As both the casualization, and beyond expensive and fashion have settled. Where you get both comfort and fashion in say a Beckett Simmonon, Crocket & jones, Allen Edmonds, Nicks, Whites, JK boots.. There is a whole segment of men and women walking away from Modernity and its good...
Beckett Simonon ... wow are those fuggly! I have 2 pair of Wolf & Shepperd and like them a lot. They run a half size big imo. Very comfortable and watch for sales. I picked up a $180 pair for $108. That's a bargain for these quality shoes.
Not sure. I do have a pair they are comfortable. Cole hann zero grand. However I will say that the most comfortable shoes I have are Allen Edmonds Park Avenue Oxford hard bottom. Don’t know how they do it but darn they’re comfortable.
Hopefully they will go the way of the leisure suit.
Nice overview.
Surprised you didn't mention Johnson Murphy, Rockport or Ecco.
Good call. I'll add them to the underlying article.
I do hate the suit and Jordan’s thing it’s stupid to me
If it was bound to happen it will be bound to not happen eventually.
Allen Edmonds with the Traveler shoe was able to pull off a "dress sneaker". Although due to the type of rubber it doesnt last. If you hack off the Danite sole on a dress shoe and put a Vibram Christy outsole you can have a sleeper dress sneaker.
But this is also where the PAcific Northwest Boots, Italian, Portugese boots come in. As both the casualization, and beyond expensive and fashion have settled. Where you get both comfort and fashion in say a Beckett Simmonon, Crocket & jones, Allen Edmonds, Nicks, Whites, JK boots..
There is a whole segment of men and women walking away from Modernity and its good...
Dress sneakers? What an oxymoron
Its the parent company of Allen Edmonds trying to cash in....
Beckett Simonon ... wow are those fuggly! I have 2 pair of Wolf & Shepperd and like them a lot. They run a half size big imo. Very comfortable and watch for sales. I picked up a $180 pair for $108. That's a bargain for these quality shoes.
Ahh I think Rockport might have done it in the 80’s
Not sure. I do have a pair they are comfortable. Cole hann zero grand. However I will say that the most comfortable shoes I have are Allen Edmonds Park Avenue Oxford hard bottom. Don’t know how they do it but darn they’re comfortable.
Tragic. Definitely.
This fad needs to💀
Give it another year or so.
People will look back and cringe