Extra care with expensive shoes?

[kirbya]

I am certainly much more on the defensive when wearing my nicer shoes. The most common damage to shoes can be prevented with minimum increase in one's awareness. For example, I don't stand so close to my collegues' desk chairs, as they can easily scoot away from their desk causing the bottom of the chair to "run over" my toe box, causing significant damage. Or, I try not to stand right next to people in meetings, as people often step on my shoes. These are all "simple things" that are all part of one's general level of awareness. They do not require one to avoid life, though.

 

[odoreater]

Originally Posted by kirbya

I am certainly much more on the defensive when wearing my nicer shoes. The most common damage to shoes can be prevented with minimum increase in one's awareness. For example, I don't stand so close to my collegues' desk chairs, as they can easily scoot away from their desk causing the bottom of the chair to "run over" my toe box, causing significant damage. Or, I try not to stand right next to people in meetings, as people often step on my shoes. These are all "simple things" that are all part of one's general level of awareness. They do not require one to avoid life, though.

Personally, I go by the philosophy of taking great care of what I'm putting on in the morning, and then forgetting about it all day. Making any change whatsoever based on an awareness of what particular pair of shoes I'm wearing on a given day means that I haven't completely forgotten what I'm wearing that day - which goes against my general philosophy.

 

[Will]

Better shoes cope with being worn better to begin with.

 

[RJman]

In Soviet Union, shoes care for you!

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by edmorel

I keep my shoes in tip top shape by never wearing them. My "wearing" shoes are Kenneth Coles, everything else I just keep in my closet and take them out every once in a while to photgraph them.
This might be the case with certain Japanese shoe people given the pristine examples they always show on their webpages.

 

[sho'nuff]

Lee, just enjoy them like you enjoy your other shoes.

but of course it is understandable to be a little more careful with your expensive ones.

i think others here are getting the cause/effect wrong:

for me, it is not that i am so worried about getting my expensive shoes dirty because they are expensive,

it is because all my favorites happen to be (mostly) expensive, and i treat them just like my favorite coltons (cheap), with more care than usual.

i have a little memoir from my mother. it is cheap (value wise) but i take great care of it, just because.

 

[dopey]

Monsieur Rabour had an interesting relationship with his beloved shoes, but surrealist film is not a reliable source of practical application.

 

[Bic Pentameter]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

This might be the case with certain Japanese shoe people given the pristine examples they always show on their webpages.

A co-worker of mine has told me that her husband and some of his friends loves shoes. She claims that one day, one of these friends wore a good pair of shoes to the office. It was raining when this fellow decided to go home, so he took his shoes off and placed them safely in his desk drawer. He walked barefoot out of the building and hailed a taxicab. He rode home in the cab to avoid drenching his shoes in the rain. I have often wondered if this fellow might be Cobbler Jun or Centipede.

Bic

 

[Artisan Fan]

Actually, I wonder how much of better shoes lasting longer is a product of treating them better while wearing them.

I think it has to do mostly with better materials and construction. Plus, there is less stress on a shoe when you have a last built to your own feet's dimensions.

 

[sho'nuff]

Originally Posted by Bic Pentameter

A co-worker of mine has told me that her husband and some of his friends loves shoes. She claims that one day, one of these friends wore a good pair of shoes to the office. It was raining when this fellow decided to go home, so he took his shoes off and placed them safely in his desk drawer. He walked barefoot out of the building and hailed a taxicab. He rode home in the cab to avoid drenching his shoes in the rain. I have often wondered if this fellow might be Cobbler Jun or Centipede.

Bic

This is one of the reasons why I keep an extra pair of shoes at my work in the bottom desk drawer, my H Boss burg wingtips.
In case of a big outpour of rain, I change my shoes and go back out.

 

[kitonbrioni]

I try to wear rubber sole shoes when it rains, otherwise I enjoy wearing my quality shoes.

 

[sho'nuff]

that is something i try to do too, wear my rubber soled suede loafers or my rubber soled bit loafer when it rains,
but here in california, you never know when it is going to rain or not, especially the last two seasons, it looks like it may be the same way this winter as well.

 

[texas_jack]

Originally Posted by kitonbrioni

I try to wear rubber sole shoes when it rains, otherwise I enjoy wearing my quality shoes.

But don't you wear each pair once a quarter?

Secondly, anteater boots? I hope you stocked up. Aren't those banned?

 

[rnoldh]

Originally Posted by edmorel

I keep my shoes in tip top shape by never wearing them. My "wearing" shoes are Kenneth Coles, everything else I just keep in my closet and take them out every once in a while to photgraph them.

Right on!

 

[DocHolliday]

Originally Posted by edmorel

I keep my shoes in tip top shape by never wearing them. My "wearing" shoes are Kenneth Coles, everything else I just keep in my closet and take them out every once in a while to photgraph them.

I'm more into the smelling and cuddling as I fall asleep.