Sneakers With Tailoring: Yes, No, Maybe?

[Nyarlathotep]

Those look like Capezios or something similar. Definitely not sneakers.

https://www.repetto.com/en/zizi-oxford-shoe-goatskin-white-v388c-050.html
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[ter1413]

https://www.repetto.com/en/zizi-oxford-shoe-goatskin-white-v388c-050.html
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Yeah...same Capezio like shoe.

 

[TheChihuahua]

Dude also wears fits like this. I'd be verrrrrry careful about thinking he's got the first clue what he's doing.

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oxfords with chinos???

I wish I didn’t put @dieworkwear on ignore, I would love to hear him explain how this guy looks like he just started wearing clothes.

 

[Waldo Jeffers]

Dude also wears fits like this. I'd be verrrrrry careful about thinking he's got the first clue what he's doing.

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I think he’s killing it in these pics

I personally wouldn’t wear jackets quite that loud, but he’s a designer.

for a mortal dadcore guy like me, I’d just tone down the jacket a notch and that is classic style

 

[Waldo Jeffers]

Absolutely. But maybe it’s time to give up the Oxfords-with-suits-only thing, unless you want to make it into what British people refer to as “a bit”. I say this as someone who agrees with the vast majority of what you post, and who is grateful for your usual patience and openness and willingness to share your knowledge.

99%+ of people couldn’t tell you the difference between oxfords and derbies. It’s an irrelevant distinction in real life. It either looks good or it doesn’t

 

[H. E. Pennypacker]

There's a gaping difference between what Yasuto is wearing above and the blue suede oxfords, purple J. Fitzpatrick wholecuts, and walnut AE Strands some people here wear with chinos.

......I feel targeted...I wore chili Strands with black chinos the other weekend.

As for the Fitzpatrick..........those are some pretty peculiar designs ?

 

[H. E. Pennypacker]

^ and an even more important point. We went from sneakers with tailored clothing and now assessing sneakers worn with sweatpants. Just throwing a tailored coat into the mix doesn’t change that.

With respect, correction: We went from sneakers with tailored clothing, women wearing menswear, male fragility....I think that was the phrasing?; to now assessing sweatpants with tops coats and sneakers and posting inspo fit pics of Ronald McDonald. lmao

This thread is a funkier wormhole than the Walt Disney film Alice in Wonderland.

 

[Phileas Fogg]

With respect, correction: We went from sneakers with tailored clothing, women wearing menswear, male fragility....I think that was the phrasing?; to now assessing sweatpants with tops coats and sneakers and posting inspo fit pics of Ronald McDonald. lmao

This thread is a funkier wormhole than the Walt Disney film Alice in Wonderland.

yes but they all intersect. How I don’t know. Following Alice, in this case, is safer and more predictable.

 

[ValidusLA]

I think what I've had highlighted from this thread is:
1) "Fragility" as a concept precedes fundamentally from a priori assumptions, and therefore is unfalsifiable and a bad way to attempt to have a reasoned debate.
2) Too many people bought Strands and now are dying on a hill to defend them.

 

[H. E. Pennypacker]

2) Too many people bought Strands and now are dying on a hill to defend them.

lmao in case you are referring to my comment, it was not to defend AE Strands.

 

[JFWR]

Ya, and post purchase you'll probably regret it, but at least the regret of a Big Mac is transient. The regret of trendy, bulbous, made in the DR shoes lasts until you donate them.

Allen Edmonds aren't made in the DR.

The DR shoes are either the (discontinued?) AE by Allen Edmonds line, the handsewn line of mocassins, or the sneakers.

I looked this up and I am finding not a single bit of evidence to suggest that DR makes its mainline shoes in the DR now. Where are you getting your countervailing evidence?

Also, I......don't think that AE would count as trendy. How many men really buy AE? If I see men in dress shoes at all, usually, they're Cole Haan or Aldos 9/10 times. I've seen Allen Edmonds in the wild like, three times.

 

[JFWR]

......I feel targeted...I wore chili Strands with black chinos the other weekend.

As for the Fitzpatrick..........those are some pretty peculiar designs ?

I tend to think red-toned shoes don't look good with black, but chili strands are sexy looking half brogues in general.

 

[ValidusLA]

It's fairly well understood thet AE is sewing and making uppers in DR and shipping the uppers to the US to be finished.

Literally the first Google search:

Is It Still Made in Wisconsin?

Milwaukee still has a reputation as an industrial city. What is happening now?

www.milwaukeemag.com

It started slowly about 15 years ago. Since the company was sold in 2015(16?) denigration has been accelerating.

https://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2007/04/30/story1.html

 

[Waldo Jeffers]

With respect, correction: We went from sneakers with tailored clothing, women wearing menswear, male fragility....I think that was the phrasing?; to now assessing sweatpants with tops coats and sneakers and posting inspo fit pics of Ronald McDonald. lmao

This thread is a funkier wormhole than the Walt Disney film Alice in Wonderland.

It’s interesting to me, with all of these topics, that sweatpants with tailoring set people off the most

 

[ValidusLA]

lmao in case you are referring to my comment, it was not to defend AE Strands.

I was not. It was a general comment on this and other oxford centric threads. Not a comment on any one post.