Can I wear these with a suit?

[k4lnamja]

Originally Posted by pvrhye

The magazines the layman reads tell him he can wear chuck taylors with his suit.

Those could be brogued all the way to bottom of the heel, and they'll look more appropriate than what your coworkers are likely to wear. People who don't wear wingtips with a suit are the same people who say you can't wear tweed in the city.

Haha. You couldn't be more right.

Again, thank you all for the comments.

Cheers

 

[cptjeff]

Originally Posted by pvrhye

I'm not overly fond of black brogues. Seem like they have an identity crisis.

The 1950's are looking at you in abject horror.

Seriously, nothing wrong with black shoes. They get a bad rap on SF. Yes, brown can go with gray. But black offers a sharp contrast, a tonal match, and with the right pattern, can offer texture as well. There's a reason why black wingtips were the default office shoe for so long. They work with black, charcoal and gray, as well as being minimally objectionable with navy. The wingtip and brouging offers the texture that SF loves to get though patina in brown shoes, and they offer the tonal match that brown shoes don't. Black and gray just go well together.

 

[pvrhye]

Originally Posted by cptjeff

The 1950's are looking at you in abject horror.

Seriously, nothing wrong with black shoes. They get a bad rap on SF. Yes, brown can go with gray. But black offers a sharp contrast, a tonal match, and with the right pattern, can offer texture as well. There's a reason why black wingtips were the default office shoe for so long. They work with black, charcoal and gray, as well as being minimally objectionable with navy. The wingtip and brouging offers the texture that SF loves to get though patina in brown shoes, and they offer the tonal match that brown shoes don't. Black and gray just go well together.

I didn't mean to come across as hating them, I'm just not overly fond. They can be nice, but I'd choose brown every time if I had a choice.

 

[Axel Ferguson]

I personally think brogueing looks better on brown as I find that black just obscures it too much. So yeah black brogues are fine, but I think it just stands out more on brown. Or maybe I should get glasses.

 

[SpooPoker]

Originally Posted by hazelnice

Much better if it is Black.

Great first post. Hopefully you get to look back on that and smile one day.

 

[Azzurri]

Originally Posted by Tony Romo

So I searched it and apparently people think it's too casual for a suit... in today's world, I think that's ridiculous as most people wear sneakers and flip flops everywhere. If you're wearing any kind of lace up, people think it's for a special occasion. Even then, maybe .05% of the population will notice that you're wearing "wingtips with a suit" and think it's inappropriate.

+1

 

[Geoff Gander]

Nice Santonis - definitely appropriate with a suit (grey or navy - not charcoal IMO).

 

[ktrp]

You'll run into more people in the wild who balk at brown with a suit then wingtips with a suit. Though they are a minority, unless you are perhaps in 'the city' in London.

 

[JayJay]

Originally Posted by Axel Ferguson

I personally think brogueing looks better on brown as I find that black just obscures it too much. So yeah black brogues are fine, but I think it just stands out more on brown. Or maybe I should get glasses.
My favorite is burgundy (i.e., Alden's #8). I have black, but I usually reach for burgundy when I want to wear a wingtip.

 

[k4lnamja]

Originally Posted by Geoff Gander

Nice Santonis - definitely appropriate with a suit (grey or navy - not charcoal IMO).
I agree with your assessment too. Either I'm going to need to buy a diff color shoe for my charcoal suits or just wear my black punchtoes

 

[JamesX]

I never liked wingtips on black, it is like painting with Charcoal on Black Canvas. All the detail work is more or less invisible unless the shoe is in your face.

But there is nothing wrong with wearing Wing Tips to the office in a non-pinstripe suit.

 

[Leaves]

Originally Posted by Axel Ferguson

I personally think brogueing looks better on brown as I find that black just obscures it too much. So yeah black brogues are fine, but I think it just stands out more on brown. Or maybe I should get glasses.

+1, black brogues is not my cup of tea.

I would not wear wingtips with a worsted business suit myself, it's not that I think it's inappropriate, I just prefer the cleaner look of say a cap toe to this kind of suit. But if you like it go for it!

 

[GBear]

Originally Posted by Tony Romo

So I searched it and apparently people think it's too casual for a suit... in today's world, I think that's ridiculous as most people wear sneakers and flip flops everywhere. If you're wearing any kind of lace up, people think it's for a special occasion. Even then, maybe .05% of the population will notice that you're wearing "wingtips with a suit" and think it's inappropriate.

Could do worse.

 

[lasbar]

Originally Posted by ktrp

You'll run into more people in the wild who balk at brown with a suit then wingtips with a suit. Though they are a minority, unless you are perhaps in 'the city' in London.

Most City traders are wearing the worse crap I have seen in my life...

Designer suits ....

Lots of money and no taste...

 

[Geezer]

Originally Posted by lasbar

Most City traders are wearing the worse crap I have seen in my life...

Designer suits ....

Lots of money and no taste...

Sigh. So often true.

On a really positive note, no-one has yet posted with the black brogues should not exist thing. Logical (brogue = rural, black = urban). But for decades across both both sides of the Atlantic, black brogues weren't just acceptable for conservative business dress, they were almost the default option (they were for my father and for me as a younger man). That doesn't mean they were or are the best choice, but they were and are pefectly "correct".

OP - speaking as an English shoes afficianado, those are annoyingly pleasant shoes.