Does anyone else think all the men wearing brown dressy shoes looks terrible?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s sad to see so many Millennial and Gen X man children prance around in this nancy boy trendy crap. Showy shoe colors and Dora the Explorer socks is the antithesis of masculinity.

Omg, you crack me up. I don’t see these men prancing, where do you live where men with brown shoes prance around

NP. They are EVERYWHERE in DC. Their flashiness and mannerisms make them stick out like a sore thumb from the nerd herd in DC. They are galavanting! They are hopping and popping in their cute little shoes and candy cane socks!

[Anonymous]

Agree with you on the orangey brown variety. Too try hard hence a turn off.

[Anonymous]

God. The near homophobic comments continue in this thread. It is sickening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:God. The near homophobic comments continue in this thread. It is sickening.

There is nothing sickening about being a metrosexual or dressing like a clown. You can dress like that if you want, but people will assume that you aren't manly, and they will probably be right.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:God. The near homophobic comments continue in this thread. It is sickening.

There is nothing sickening about being a metrosexual or dressing like a clown. You can dress like that if you want, but people will assume that you aren't manly, and they will probably be right.

I know I am responding to a troll and I shouldn't, but using "prancing galavanting effeminate manly candy" etc are all signs of rampant homophobia. There is more than one way to be manly, and I can tell you, mocking someone else's socks and shoes and using homophobic language to do so IS NOT ONE of them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s sad to see so many Millennial and Gen X man children prance around in this nancy boy trendy crap. Showy shoe colors and Dora the Explorer socks is the antithesis of masculinity.

Omg, you crack me up. I don’t see these men prancing, where do you live where men with brown shoes prance around

NP. They are EVERYWHERE in DC. Their flashiness and mannerisms make them stick out like a sore thumb from the nerd herd in DC. They are galavanting! They are hopping and popping in their cute little shoes and candy cane socks!

Hahaha! Galavanting, too good.

[Anonymous]

I think the issue is this looks good in theory, but 95% of the time the man looks awful, so it's better to just play it safe with a nice black belt and nice black shoes. If you screw up the brown/tan/camel, it draws so much attention to your screwup, especially if you're wearing dainty bright socks. Where as black shoes, black socks, black belt doesn't really draw any attention.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly I just find it odd how men's fashion has evolved so little since the 1920's. Literally, men are wearing suits that are remarkably similar to what men wore 100 years ago. Women's fashion changes every season and honestly to me most of the time the men look like they're wearing some kind of weird dated halloween costumes. Why is that?

“Men’s fashion”. Shivers.

Men wear black shoes during the week. Guys and boys can wear brown. If some 30 year old male associate prances around the office in brown shoes and colorful socks ... he won’t be taken seriously. Ladies, don’t dress your men for their work clothes. You can opine on weekend wear, fine, but don’t throw him off base at work because you think mauve or orange is “in”.

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The "guy" in one of the photos looks like rumpelstiltskin or Peter Pan! If you want to dress like that when attending a soiree on the weekend, no problemo. But people will judge you as an attention seeker (drama queen) or effeminate guy if you wear that at work.

For real: How old are you? I am a lawyer at a huge firm downtown. I’m 37. Plenty of extremely wealthy, successful, macho lawyers I work with wear brown shoes with navy suits or pants. If men are paying so much attention to other men’s shoes, and not their work product, they have too much time on their hands.

Also, Rumpelstiltskin? I am not sure what he had in common with Peter Pan.

Prance. Peter Pan. Effeminate. Who knew that homophobic idiots still thought they got an opinion?

And seriously. Must be old. Or lame. My 45 year old VP husband and his successful friends all wear the Happy and Penguin socks and brown shoes. And they look good. Those who don't...yeah, they tend to look like 90s guy up there.

Which is actually fine. Let men have choices without falling back on dated gender bullshit.

So how does your husband look in his dress? Or is he confined to dated gender bullshit, like suits and stuff?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s sad to see so many Millennial and Gen X man children prance around in this nancy boy trendy crap. Showy shoe colors and Dora the Explorer socks is the antithesis of masculinity.

Omg, you crack me up. I don’t see these men prancing, where do you live where men with brown shoes prance around

NP. They are EVERYWHERE in DC. Their flashiness and mannerisms make them stick out like a sore thumb from the nerd herd in DC. They are galavanting! They are hopping and popping in their cute little shoes and candy cane socks!

If you're going to be a homophobe, please at least spell your slurs correctly: gallivanting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s sad to see so many Millennial and Gen X man children prance around in this nancy boy trendy crap. Showy shoe colors and Dora the Explorer socks is the antithesis of masculinity.

Omg, you crack me up. I don’t see these men prancing, where do you live where men with brown shoes prance around

NP. They are EVERYWHERE in DC. Their flashiness and mannerisms make them stick out like a sore thumb from the nerd herd in DC. They are galavanting! They are hopping and popping in their cute little shoes and candy cane socks!

If you're going to be a homophobe, please at least spell your slurs correctly: gallivanting.

Anyone who relates prancing and nancy boy with gays is homophobic.

[Anonymous]

I love the equivalence that PP (who is no doubt a middle-aged schlub in a stained T-shirt) draws between "knows how to dress" and "OMG he's practically RuPaul."

He's probably the kind of Red Pill dude who resents having to use toilet paper because he thinks it's a feminazi plot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the issue is this looks good in theory, but 95% of the time the man looks awful, so it's better to just play it safe with a nice black belt and nice black shoes. If you screw up the brown/tan/camel, it draws so much attention to your screwup, especially if you're wearing dainty bright socks. Where as black shoes, black socks, black belt doesn't really draw any attention.

Fashion cowards unite.

[Anonymous]

I love it. I wish the dumpy men in ill-fitting suits they bought in 1992 that they pair with those ugly skinny outdated ties and scuffed black shoes would leave this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s sad to see so many Millennial and Gen X man children prance around in this nancy boy trendy crap. Showy shoe colors and Dora the Explorer socks is the antithesis of masculinity.

Ha. I'm 53 and a member of Gen X. Exactly how old are you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't really have an opinion - DH just bought a pair of brown shoes - but it doesn't hit me as modern, seems more old fashioned if anything!

I started practicing law 30 years ago, and all the male partners (and they were mostly male back then) wore brown shoes. In fact, my Grandfather the lawyer wore brown shoes.