Bulldoggery
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All right, this is my first post on this forum, so please go easy on me if I'm breaching etiquette.
I've got about a $150 budget, and I desperately need a pair of wingtips. I'm not in the market for cap-toes, suede "seasonal" wingtips, or boots, just four-season wingtip bluchers -- and, really, what I want is a decent shortwing shoe that I can pair with suits, chinos, and jeans. If I had to choose just one of those, it'd be suits...but ideally, I'd like to buy something reasonably versatile (bearing in mind the low budget).
As such, and since I (apparently unlike many here) have had nothing but good experiences with Aldo shoes, I'm currently torn between the following two shoes from Aldo's recent "Mr. B's" line:
and
To be clear, the first shoe pictured is a five-eyelet wingtip in dark brown and black with a dark khaki leather midsole and outsole, while the second is a four-eyelet wingtip in cognac with a dark brown leather midsole and outsole. Both are $150, and both are very similarly constructed. They also both fit me well.
Notwithstanding the fact that I'm splitting hairs about fairly inexpensive Aldo products, what do you think? Which of these shoes might be more versatile against a "typical" suit palette (dark charcoal, black, medium gray, navy), chinos (in various colors, from standard khakis to dusty pastels), and jeans (gray and dark denim)?
Finally -- and potentially adding layers of self-doubt to my already difficult decision-making process -- if you guys could recommend something vastly better than these in the $150 range, I'd be more than willing to entertain such suggestions.
I sincerely thank you for your time, and I'll hope to hear back from some folks here who can see past my limited budget and point me in the right direction!
-- Justin
EDIT: It bears mentioning that at present, I own precisely zero pairs of wingtips in ANY color. In fact, I have only the most limited collection of suit-appropriate "dress" shoes, and what I do have is monstrously bad: nothing but square-toed nonsense, all selected for me by various girls I dated in my 20s. I'm now 32, with at least SOME income, so it's high time I started to remedy that problem. I'm starting with some wingtips -- and not straight-up black ones; I'll take care of those later this year.
Also, it looks like I may have posted this in the wrong place...if there's a more appropriate subforum for this, please let me know.
I've got about a $150 budget, and I desperately need a pair of wingtips. I'm not in the market for cap-toes, suede "seasonal" wingtips, or boots, just four-season wingtip bluchers -- and, really, what I want is a decent shortwing shoe that I can pair with suits, chinos, and jeans. If I had to choose just one of those, it'd be suits...but ideally, I'd like to buy something reasonably versatile (bearing in mind the low budget).
As such, and since I (apparently unlike many here) have had nothing but good experiences with Aldo shoes, I'm currently torn between the following two shoes from Aldo's recent "Mr. B's" line:
and
To be clear, the first shoe pictured is a five-eyelet wingtip in dark brown and black with a dark khaki leather midsole and outsole, while the second is a four-eyelet wingtip in cognac with a dark brown leather midsole and outsole. Both are $150, and both are very similarly constructed. They also both fit me well.
Notwithstanding the fact that I'm splitting hairs about fairly inexpensive Aldo products, what do you think? Which of these shoes might be more versatile against a "typical" suit palette (dark charcoal, black, medium gray, navy), chinos (in various colors, from standard khakis to dusty pastels), and jeans (gray and dark denim)?
Finally -- and potentially adding layers of self-doubt to my already difficult decision-making process -- if you guys could recommend something vastly better than these in the $150 range, I'd be more than willing to entertain such suggestions.
I sincerely thank you for your time, and I'll hope to hear back from some folks here who can see past my limited budget and point me in the right direction!
-- Justin
EDIT: It bears mentioning that at present, I own precisely zero pairs of wingtips in ANY color. In fact, I have only the most limited collection of suit-appropriate "dress" shoes, and what I do have is monstrously bad: nothing but square-toed nonsense, all selected for me by various girls I dated in my 20s. I'm now 32, with at least SOME income, so it's high time I started to remedy that problem. I'm starting with some wingtips -- and not straight-up black ones; I'll take care of those later this year.
Also, it looks like I may have posted this in the wrong place...if there's a more appropriate subforum for this, please let me know.
