Formal footwear

**TheOfficialBren** · 30th April 13, 08:25 PM

Originally Posted by piperdbh

Shoes like these, as shiny as you can get them, will serve you well, and get us out of the pitfalls of our "common language".

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I have a pair of patent leathers and a couple of pair similar to these in the photo. I am not a fan of ghillie brogues.

Many kinds of nice dress shoes will suffice but the types posted by Colin, Kyle, and DBH are EXCELLENT examples and you can't go wrong with them.

**Downunder Kilt** · 1st May 13, 12:07 AM

Here are some formal shoes that I recently acquired, I just added the buckles. The marks in photo 1 you can see, on the top of the shoes, are the camera reflections, that's how shiny they are.

**Nathan** · 1st May 13, 08:31 AM

Originally Posted by Downunder Kilt

Here are some formal shoes that I recently acquired, I just added the buckles. The marks in photo 1 you can see, on the top of the shoes, are the camera reflections, that's how shiny they are.

Love these! Nice work.

**creagdhubh** · 2nd May 13, 05:08 AM

Originally Posted by Nathan

Love these! Nice work.

Nice work indeed!

**StevieR** · 1st May 13, 09:35 PM

Quarter brogues, half brogues, wingtips and longwing!

**Nathan** · 1st May 13, 10:04 PM

If you've got $1200 to burn you could always shake things up with these!

hehe

http://m.hypebeast.com/2013/4/sasqua...ingtip-brogues

**MacGumerait** · 1st May 13, 11:11 PM

Wow . You are right , ... buying those .... would certainly be the equivalent of burning one's $ 1,200 !

**Jock Scot** · 2nd May 13, 12:51 AM

Originally Posted by MacGumerait

Wow . You are right , ... buying those .... would certainly be the equivalent of burning one's $ 1,200 !

Quite so! At least if one did burn the loot one could have stayed warm for a few minutes. Now, I wonder on second thoughts, hummmm, would burning the shoes create more therms than burning the money?

**Friday** · 2nd May 13, 02:58 AM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

Quite so! At least if one did burn the loot one could have stayed warm for a few minutes. Now, I wonder on second thoughts, hummmm, would burning the shoes create more therms than burning the money?

Jock being on the British Isles could you check this out with the British military group in charge of fires. You know a member of one of the British Thermal Units.

**Lime** · 9th May 13, 01:21 AM

Just for clarification, I'd like to set out a few definitions.

In the US, we call just about any lace up shoe on "Oxford." Slip-ons are often called "loafers."

This is what we would call a "Blucher Oxford" in the US; I think it's called a "Derby" in the UK, I'm not from the IK, so you can correct me:

Note, the shoe lace holes are in flaps (for lack of a more precise word) that lay over the tongue.

This is what we call a "Balmoral Oxford" or Bal Oxford:

Note that the lace holes are not in flaps.

We still are people divided by a common language.

I would call the top pair "Blutchers" rather than a "Derby" but I have no idea where I picked it up from.