How gay are espadrille shoes?

[Connemara]

Originally Posted by lasbar

You could even be both!!!!!!!!!!!
French speaker and gay!

And exuberant....

French speaker and gay? Bit of a given, you'd think.

 

[Tomasso]

Espadrilles, when chosen wisely and used in the right ensemble, can be very elegant. Some minds misconstrue elegance as effeminate. These are the minds that I try to stay clear of.

 

[Nantucket Red]

Originally Posted by lasbar

I do not mind wearing espadrilles on a hot summer day to go to the beach and i'm not gay at all ,far from that...
Is it a new fad finding everything gay?

Not all that new. It's a particularly American obsession.

 

[lasbar]

Where this obsession is coming from,especially from a country who exported campness around the world with San Francisco "go west" culture : and the infamous Village people?
Liberrace would never have been famous in Europe ,that's for sure...

I do live in England and i work in the transport industry...
We have a lot of gays and lesbians with us and to be honest ,we do not really care....

 

[edmorel]

Originally Posted by lasbar

Where this obsession is coming from,especially from a country who exported campness around the world with San Francisco "go west" culture : and the infamous Village people?
Liberrace would never have been famous in Europe ,that's for sure...

I do live in England and i work in the transport industry...
We have a lot of gays and lesbians with us and to be honest ,we do not really care....

Watch your mouth foreigner, Liberace and the Village People were NOT gay.

 

[mack11211]

Originally Posted by lasbar

Where this obsession is coming from,especially from a country who exported campness around the world with San Francisco "go west" culture : and the infamous Village people?
Liberrace would never have been famous in Europe ,that's for sure...

I do live in England and i work in the transport industry...
We have a lot of gays and lesbians with us and to be honest ,we do not really care....

Liberace was huge in England in the 50s, due to the popularity of his syndicated television show.

He played the London Palladium.

Some of the press was unfriendly, however:

http://almax.wordpress.com/tag/celebrities/liberace/

In response, and to preserve his career, he sued the Daily Mirror for the libel of insinuating his homosexuality.

He won, but judging by the space he devotes to it in his memoir published decades later, it haunted him.

 

[william]

Originally Posted by Soph

Is going Bespoke/Custom a sign of the ultimate gay thing to do?
It's only for the very anal about fit lol

Dang. Guess I'm gay now.

 

[Cantabrigian]

Originally Posted by Tomasso

Espadrilles, when chosen wisely and used in the right ensemble, can be very elegant. Some minds misconstrue elegance as effeminate. These are the minds that I try to stay clear of.

 

[life_interrupts]

Bought my last pair in Alicante, Spain 10 years ago and hadn't really seen them since. I feel about them the same way I feel about flip flops -- for all intents and purposes they're beachwear. Not gay.

 

[gdl203]

Originally Posted by life_interrupts

for all intents and purposes they're beachwear. Not gay.
+1

To me, they're a bit more elegant than flip-flops (which I loathe with all my heart) but still beachwear. Absolutely not gay at all (obviously unless you wear the womens version as pictured in this thread) but definitely retro

 

[Edward Appleby]

Originally Posted by Tomasso

Espadrilles, when chosen wisely and used in the right ensemble, can be very elegant. Some minds misconstrue elegance as effeminate. These are the minds that I try to stay clear of.

Alright man, let's see it. Show me one picture of an ensemble in whcih espadrilles don't look ******.

 

[gdl203]

Originally Posted by Edward Appleby

Alright man, let's see it. Show me one picture of an ensemble in whcih espadrilles don't look ******.

They look better than flip flops with any beach outfit. You wear them like flip flops or slippers, stepping on the back portion

 

[SantaCruzGuy]

Espradrilles = Miami Vice

 

[lasbar]

Espadrilles and flip flop are ok in the right circumstances like everything else.....
We have to use some common sense...
If you turn up in the heat with a 3 piece bespoke suit and a pair of bespoke oxfords ,you will look like an overdressed idiot and your high quality combi will be inapropriate without making any quality statement about them....
We are not talking wearing espadrilles in the boardroom or at the office....
Espadrilles are not gay and gays do not like them much anyway....

 

[tgod93]

Espadrilles, when chosen wisely and used in the right ensemble, can be very elegant. Some minds misconstrue elegance as effeminate. These are the minds that I try to stay clear of.

thank you... it all depends on HOW people wear their clothing. way better than fuckin flip flops imo