Category: Shoes (Guys)

Rev. Gidget wants to know,

Here’s a Deep Shoe Query:
Your shoe lust tends to inspire my own shoe lust, which is whomped up by checking out the Naturalizer, Dansko Outlet and Easy Spirit websites (just to let you know how generally tame my taste is!) The question that just struck me is thus: On Sunday morning, do you plan your shoes for your suit/outfit underneath the robe, or is your primary consideration matching the robe? I wear my black academic robe most Sundays of the year. Typically, I wear a simple black pump with a 2″ heel, which looks elegant with this robe. During my personal shoe experience now, I saw a fetching pair of tan suede pumps that would be lovely with my favorite suit and other things I wear on Sunday. But wouldn’t it look dorky with the robe?
Inquiring minds want to know…

Dear Gidge,

I think it’s a matter of your own style. I get dressed on Sunday mornings for my outfit, not for my robe. THAT SAID, my Sunday morning outfits are always chosen with consideration for the fact that I’ll be in a preaching robe and stole most of the morning.

I wear all sorts of funky shoes with my robe but it depends on your setting and your preference. I mean, I certainly wouldn’t wear scuffed casual shoes or anything canvass or mesh or velcro-related. I wouldn’t wear my Merrill mocassins or suede snow boots. When I say “funky” I mean a proper leather shoe or sandal, something dressy, something polished. Usually a boot in the chilly months and usually a Mary Jane or wedge sandal in warmer months (although I believe in a closed toe shoe for church).

If I am wearing a casual shoe with my outfit because my feet hurt or I have lots of meetings that day, I pop on a pair of black pumps I keep in the office for the service. They are a Very Respectable Lady Pump with a silver buckle and it’s simple enough to slip into them for 10-11 AM and change back as I am getting out of my robe before fellowship hour.

I see great benefit to having a Sensible Shoe on hand at the office to put on right before one heads to the sanctuary. You know you’ll be comfortable, you’ll know you match the robe, you keep the shoes polished, they’ll never be wet or muddy, and they can frankly be pretty ugly and you’re not stuck in them all day.

Hope that helps. xoxo

The incomparable John Fleuvog.

These are, you should excuse the expression, totally pimpin’. With a smart black suit? ALSOME.

Love the mossy green. And these look fantastic on. I know ’cause I tried ’em on in Chicago. A girl can dream. These would be fantastic church shoes. Amazingly comfortable (seriously, even for my messed up tootsies), sturdy, understated but fashioning, and an interesting neutral that goes with EVERYTHING.

For the gents, these are wicked “shahp.”

Seriously, if you wanted to do something interesting you could build a look entirely from amazing shoes and black suits. I’d love to be that brave. You could wear a designer like Fleuvog as a sort of walking art collection. Of course you could only buy one pair a year, but there’s nothing wrong with that.


I’m dizzy with shoe lust over these boots.

Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, PeaceBang is DELIRIOUS WITH EXCITEMENT!

Because Born shoes has decided that their fall line is all about us being fairie queens and princesses and living in the forest and wearing the COOLEST clothes imagineable and having pointy eyebrows and long braided hair and wings! And they have the most beautiful FONT to tell the story about their forest wonderland and the shoes are also by the way simply DREAMY and I want them ALL!

Look! Look! (Boys, too! You can be Legolas!)

I thought I was buying a fairly ordinary pair of much-needed brown pumps at DSW Shoe Warehouse this afternoon but I was so WRONG! What I was actually purchasing was a ticket to a magickal world of enchantment for my entire life, not just my feet!

My secret faierie name is Winterwynd Scarlettgarlandberri. You spell it with a small star over the final i. Please call me that from now on. You can call me “Winter” for short.

Merrily skipping hence,
Winterwynd

I would love to wear these to church… with sticks in my hair and a preaching robe made entirely of reindeer skins.

Winterwynd seriously loves these. She would run an elf off the road for them.

And these? In purple suede? Oh yes, Santa! Please!?