>>18660399
i like when people stick money in them, i put a quarter in my old ones (RIP)

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>>18660399
They're my favorite shoes now that I'm in my 30s and dress well for my job and generally just try and look nice yet casual at the same time.
I personally line the American style of wide aprons and tall side walls versus the more Italian/Spanish long narrow pointy styles
My dream loafers are actually JM Weston 180 loafers but apparently sizing them is absolute hell and I'm not French to try them on

Kino footwear and goes with basically anything

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>>18660399
I want to wear them to everything this spring and summer. Start with these and a braided belt and then blue suede with matching belt. I'm assuming I need to size down a half size from regular laced shoes?

for me it's tassels

>>18660671
>I'm assuming I need to size down a half size from regular laced shoes?
I dunno. Allen Edmonds are the only dress shoes I sizes up on, but that might just be last specific. I went half up in the 65 last but I'm half down in pretty much every single other American dress shoe brand

>>18660684
I want some suede tassel loafers so fucking bad
Unlined suede tassels in light brown will be my next shoes

That’s not how you should dress in your 30s.

Too “classy.” Too mature.

>>18660695
And how should you dress in your 30s, sweatie? Like a manchild larping as a 14 year old?

>>18660728
No. Just not like a square LARPing as a 50 year old.

>>18660730
Again, what should you dress like in your 30s, not what you shouldn't. You fags have no idea. Anything that's not a manchild outfit is too "square" for you faggots. There is no difference between a 50 year old and 30 year old man. Once you're out of college, you're a grown man, so dress like one.

>>18660695
Should we be wearing plastic sneakers like you?

They only work with smart pants so meh

dress shoes are gross, uncomfortable and soulless

>>18660843
As opposed to your plastic niggersneakers?

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>>18660848
Pennies with jeans look retarded

>>18660843
sheeeit...

>>18660836
loafers go great with jeans

>>18660843
>gross
Should we be wearing plastic and foam that absorbs moisture and gets smelly instead?
>uncomfortable
I guess if the only dress shoes you ever wore were dogshit you got from Walmart that you wore Grandma's funeral exactly once in your life
>soulless
Ah yes, because plastic and foam glued together by Zhang in China sold for 5000x markup and marketed to blacks and zoomers is so much more soulful than a factory making things by hand with natural materials for 100+ years straight

But go off

For me, it’s Alden handsewn
https://www.toddsnyder.com/products/alden-leisure-handsewn-color-8-cordovan-brown?utm_source=googlePLA&utm_medium=google_TPshopping&utm_campaign=Google_PM_TP&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21039821660&gbraid=0AAAAADwfaN049N4qH0t90wBM8AgJpe2Xe&gclid=CjwKCAiA-__MBhAKEiwASBmsBDhckLW3UTFSMlxwvB1hx4HHpDiG4tRAWGOSGIHxgXhX4sl4TY3aShoChfkQAvD_BwE

>>18660979
I think I'd rather have the Crockett and Jones Harvard since at least C&J can be trusted to make a quality product
Alden QC is dumpster tier.

do the brits make shoes? I know they do I forget the name of them though. I think it starts with a C? Like a really old family company.

>>18660485
pretty much this

>>18661013
Crockett and Jones? Cheaney? Churches?
Brits are some of the most famous shoe makers in the world

>>18660930
penny loafers do not

>>18661073
Absolutely they do

Lot of preppy fags in this thread. You ain’t daddy material, nigga.

>>18661074
t. Fag who cuffs or is a software engineer.

>>18660983
I agree but I’ve been wearing Alden for 16 years so I just keep reordering lol plus I think they look a little better

>>18661078
Neither
But keep projecting your insecurities

>>18660399
I don't see any pennies. I had to wear those to church as a child and they have to have pennies in them.
Those faggots in the pics aren't wearing penny loafers.

>>18661087
The differences are subtle but the Aldens are ever so slightly wider which gives it the edge in terms of casual wearability
My Indys have QC issues and they're the replacement pair for what I was originally shipped which was laughably bad. I'm talking three different threads used to stitch the sole to the welt, and with each new thread they started in a different spot. It looked like what a new employee getting trained on the outsole stitcher would do their first time using the machine. On top of that the thread was all frayed and fuzzy. How Alden ever let that even leave their factory is beyond me. So they shipped me a replacement and the lining is missing a bunch of stitches and separating. I had to use super glue
That was when I realized Alden wasn't for me

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>>18661113
lmao I found some of the pics to show Alden's notorious "quality control"

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>>18661156
Here's those 700 dollar boots I was telling you about

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>>18661157
Made in USA baby!!

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>>18661156
>shoe with no tread
do people even go outside with these or are they just for pictures at home

>>18661320
They're actually great soles. Nitrile cork soles like that are basically indestructible and will last forever
They have plenty of grip. Maybe not great for snow or ice but I have never once slipped in my Indy boots while I've fallen on my ass in Dainite soles

>>18661320
Have you ever seen a leather sole?

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>>18660730
laggard take. why is /fa/so out of touch and behind the times

>>18661320
You are aware soldiers for centuries waged wars across all types of terrain with leather soles, right?

>>18661619
And they had to resole the like every 2 years.

>>18661658
and?

>>18661156
>>18661157
>>18661158
>>18661159
At least AE has the decency to sell theirs as way cheaper factory seconds with those kinds of defects.

>>18661113
>>18661156
>>18661157
>>18661158
>>18661159
I’ve received shoes from Alden that were ever so subtly “off” but nothing like this. Surely they have some kind of customer service that would’ve replaced them?