Well, to each his own. For me, I don't think I could ever do without some black shoes, as has been noted when you really want to project a CBD image they are essential. And they can be very elegant. Agreed that it would be boring to wear black bals every day. I would say that I now wear non-black shoes 50-75% of the time, though, which is probably up from 20% a few years ago. SF has definitely been a catalyst to this change, mostly just from my looking at all the lovely brown, burgundy, and other colored shoe porn. PG has a point about dark blue - I have been coveting a pair...