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Your Ravello NST's look awesome with the cuffed EP's.
+ 1What the hell does "dress" even mean? Alden is dressier than 95% of the shoes that your coworkers and friends wear to work. You can wear them with a suit and they'll look better than most. You can wear them with jeans and get compliments from ladies.
This debate is pointless and needs to be framed in a different light. The shoes you listed are bluchers, which traditionally are considered to be casual. Balmorals are dressy in the same way a three piece suit is considered dressy.
As Bill Clinton would say, "I feel your pain". With weddings it never fails that there'll be some hum yuk with black Nikes on. Last year I bought a some of the aforementioned Ecco's for winter. Took them back in two days.In the US, just about anything above sneakers or crocs is considered a dress shoe.
Have to wear a black dress shoe for a wedding that I'm in. I have nothing black. My color 8 longwings were veto'd. It's a shame my LWBs are unacceptable while squared toe'd abominations from Ecco are passes.
The theme of this thread has inspired me to share a funny story. Two weekends ago I was in uptown new orleans (trendy area) and while walking out of a coffee shop I noticed a gentleman wearing shell 8's. I said that guy is wearing nice shoes to my girlfriend while walking away my girlfriend utters, yeah they look like shell. I almost fell out laughing, it appears my exuberance and frequent orders from Alden NYC having gone unnoticed.
In the US, just about anything above sneakers or crocs is considered a dress shoe.
Have to wear a black dress shoe for a wedding that I'm in. I have nothing black. My color 8 longwings were veto'd. It's a shame my LWBs are unacceptable while squared toe'd abominations from Ecco are passes.
PJ's? Sucre? Rue? CC's? Or somewhere else?
Even though they are boring, you may as well invest in a black shoe now. The thing is they come in handy in situations like this and can be worn with black tie. The last wedding I was in I actually wore my black shell Rider bal captoe boots, worked out pretty well (even though it was probably a bad purchase overall)
Maybe it's due to the overall stiffness of the entire sole. I don't have anything on the crepe, but if it's more flexible than leather, maybe that results in less friction as you push off with you toe while walking.Also, interesting to note that the bit of leather attached to the toe of my pair with crepe sole has not worn down like the rest of my double leather soles. Not sure if Alden uses a different/tougher leather on those.
I agree that if I were Dbear, I'd just take this opportunity to get my one formal black shoe.