Comfy shoes – a sign of middle age?

I’ll happily sit with the rest of us in denial.

Jeans and Sheux[/url] are a big no no from me.

Shoes should only be worn when paired with a suit if you ask me

excellent blog!

5.10 Dirtbags. Sub £50 in sales/with vouchers. Smartish when new, last a good long time, stealth soles grippy on flats, comfy for walking. When they get over trashed, buy a newer pair for man-about-towning, and keep the older ones for wetter rides and gardening.

Hey don’t start with the Rovers. I loved my 420GSi Tourer. Sad day when it blew up.

Genuine ellohell 🙂

so another fan of jeans and sheux then 😆

http://jeansandsheux.tumblr.com

I’ve dressed the same for the last 25years

You are Simon Cowell and I claim my 5pounds.

Errrm, I confess to wearing Salomons pretty much all the time – mid height boots mostly, and a shoe type if it actually gets hot in the summer. My feet love me, not a scrap of hard skin to be found 😀
Sod that high heels lark!

Black trousers black shoes.

Blue jeans brown shoes.

People get down with the times please.

I’ve found that a pair of tweed Converse offends young and old alike

Dr Martens “For life” boots here. Expensive but will outlive me.

Fit flop shoes are incredibly comfortable and they have always got something on sale. I can’t bear the whole labels thing but I have had quite a few Nike trainers for pretty demanding travelling duties and they have been faultless. You just need to find the model that suits you and your activities.

oh also got some Timberland walking boots that are currently doing sterling service around E Europe

I’ve found that a pair of tweed Converse offends young and old alike

I find the same of my Adidas Superstar tweed 😉

Speaking of superstars… these abominations were released in march

but I’m going for a pair of these instead

in the office and everyday shoes = Vans, client meetings and other smart events suit & brogues. Never the two shall mix. Never, ever shoes & jeans, never ever smart trousers and trainers.

This “shoes with jeans” thing. Are people talking about smart shoes (like you would generally wear with a suit)

Or is it all leather shoes/boots that people think you can’t wear with jeans.

I wear Redwing boots with jeans all the time, that’s basically what they are made for.

You wouldn’t wear them with a suit or anything smart that’s for sure

Blundstone boots pretty much every day for work, Onitsuka Tigers with jeans for casual, if it’s too smart for tigers, I’ll polish my boots

Merrell Slip-ons FTW.

I have been wearing the same pair of Jungle Mocs for about 6 years now…. Apart from some formal ones for our annual dinner dance and a pair of dealer boots for the cattle market (lot of cowshite), they are the only shoes I own (other than riding & hikjing boots but they don’t count. Oh, and my wellies, which I probably wear 80% of the time 🙂

http://www.merrell.com/US/en/mens-slip-on-shoes/

Onitsuka Tigers with jeans for casual,

thats just about me. away from work im hardly ever out of jeans and my footwear is more tailored towards what ‘top’ im wearing rather than the jeans. a polo shirt can be either the onitsuka type ‘trainers’ mentioned above or leather ‘casual’ shoes a la .

a hoody will be onitsuka or trainers only, yer gola retro/samba types tho, no ‘£200 airmaxnutterb*st*rd down wiv da kids’ trainers. a casual shirt will be leather casual shoes only.

onitsukas, hoodies and polos cheap as chips from m&m direct, ‘expensive’ casual shoes from the ‘smart clothes shop’ in town. theyre the rules 😀

Most of this thread is written in consumerese! I must be really old as I used to wear Docs or walking shoes for comfort until my thirtieth year before being stricken with inflammatory arthritis and have since been searching for any shoe that I can wear that doesn’t make the balls of my feet scream in agony.

At this point am resultantly considered by peers to belong to a well-established/pitiable out-group so ‘comfy shoes’ (at least to me) means something different again. ie an aspiration born purely, irreducibly, of function/enablement and therefore increased independence. If I do happen to find a pair of pavement-bashers that don’t look like NHS-approved built-up shoes for Frankenfeet I’d probably be grumpier still, as the fashionistas would then think I simply had poor taste rather than no taste. Good job I married someone who loved me not for my shoes as am thinking dating now would be an expensive and confusing minefield 😯

Anyone tried Clarks Wave Walk? <—- serious question.

oh also got some Timberland walking boots that are currently doing sterling service around E Europe

I’ve worn a pair of these Timberlands almost every day for four years (they’ve just had their fifth heal/sole). They’ve supported me along many a flânerie of several European cities and have served me very, very well. I wear work boots when I need toe caps, trainers when I run and hiking boots when I go walking or if it’s raining too heavily for plain boots. 5.10s for riding.

+1 fit flops ….

not bad shoes tbh …

Just recently bought some fitflop sandals in their sale for c.£25. (waits to be shot down.boom!)