Anonymous wrote:Brown is for school boys. The orange shades are for Euro trash and public school alums - they tease out poor judgment and lack of pedigree. Men wear black.
No.
French PP again.
There is a little shoemaker near my parents' apartment in Paris who has been there for ages (well before any of us were born). The wealthy, conservative residents of the 16th arrondissement shop there. It's all fine brown leather. A little more zeroes than I care to spend on shoes, personally.
Same for Italian shoes (the birthplace of elegant shoes!).
I'm sorry, the British have never been terribly good at shoes, so if you see black shoes in London, it doesn't mean anything at all. They have other strengths.
You REALLY need to have some background and culture about the origins and lineage of clothing and accessories before you spout off complete inaccuracies, OP, and some PPs.