Two-tone leather shoes?

[Happy Highwayman]

When is it appropriate to wear black and white two-tone leather shoes?

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by Happy Highwayman

When is it appropriate to wear black and white two-tone leather shoes?

In the 1930s.

 

[Happy Highwayman]

I guess that explains why you never see them...I was hoping there was some social occasion I could come up with to justify a pair.

 

[Bird's One View]

They're good for parties. I wouldn't wear them to a wedding or funeral. I've found brown-family two tone shoes more useful with casual clothes, but black and whites are great with a dark gray suit.

 

[JLibourel]

Black and white spectators are also popular with swing dancers, I hear tell.

I have a pair of Allen-Edmonds Belmonts in black and white (what some people call a "lawn blucher). I don't wear them often, two or three times a year at most, but then they only cost me $79.

When a spectator shoe is to be worn, I much prefer brown and white or tan and white.

 

[nordicstyle]

Originally Posted by Happy Highwayman

I guess that explains why you never see them...I was hoping there was some social occasion I could come up with to justify a pair.

I guess people are still buying them, because I see them in stores from time to time.

 

[mr monty]

I start wearing on Derby Day (1st Sat in May) and stop on Labor Day (1st Mon in Sept).

 

[DapperDandy]

Originally Posted by RJman

In the 1930s.

Very true...and hilarious.

 

[TheGreek]

I own a couple of pairs of AE Broadstreets, and I love them! I wear them to weddings, dinner dances, other social events, and I get nothing but compliments. I think they have been dicontinued in the "broadstreet" style. Good luck hunting.

 

[Michael Ay329]

Manton had a gorgeous pair of bespoke G&G brown/white spectator wing tips made...perhaps he can chime in...especially since he invested the money for bespoke

 

[dsmolken]

Only when spectating. Obviously.

 

[beasty]

Originally Posted by Happy Highwayman

When is it appropriate to wear black and white two-tone leather shoes?

Playing golf?

 

[ManofKent]

I think brown & white are arguably more versatile, but black & white are certainly wearable. I wear my brown & white spectators to parties, the odd group trip to a restaurant and they'll be good for a summer trip to the seaside. They're not shoes you'd wear too often, but they're fun.

 

[Eagle]

I love my AE McClains, in bourbon and bone calf but, as pointed out be an earlier poster, they get worn perhaps six time a year. Definitely a summer shoe, though I have worn them on additional occasions and during cooler periods of the year to ballroom dance classes with my wife.

 

[wrms]

I have several pairs. The most worn are Churchs in Brown and Tan. They get worn with almost anything I would wear a brown shoe with. Those and the black and white AEs and a cheap pair of B&Ws get worn on stage. As a regulary giging jazzer they are very cool stage shoes.

Mark