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10 Dress Shoes Ranked (Formal To Casual)
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Is it ok i wear my ecco shoes for school?
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Wearing loafers with shorts looks ridiculous!
I'm beginning to realize that brogueing cancels the benefits of goodyear.
Might as well get blake stitching and look much nicer.
This was a fun video and I’m a woman. Great descriptions. I used to sell men’s shoes in college but never put this much thought into them because we only sold about 3-4 of these styles. 👞
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I agree with the statements. I have a pair of Allen Edmunds Fifth Street dress boots, in black. These feature a cap toe with broguing on the toe only. I will wear them with a black suit to shows and to what is effectively a goth/new wave/ industrial night at a local nightclub. I also wear them with odd trousers and blazer. I also wear full brogue dress boots in a dark chili cordovan for the more casual look with odd trousers.
My go to dress shoes are a pair of Allen Edmunds Leeds in black. They are essentially military style low quarters. After 36 years, I've gone full circle. One may ask why did you buy them, Fred? After loosing more blubber, I wear13A. They had been on sale. Finally, they work with my dark navy, charcoal, and black suits.
Timestamps:
3:35 Plain Balmoral Oxfords in black
4:20 Balmoral Oxfords
4:54 Wholecut Oxfords
5:33 Blucher/derby
6:31 Brogues
7:26 Chelsea boots
8:09 Monk straps
9:02 Loafers
9:50 Dress boots (Balmoral boots, combat boots)
11:10 Moccasins & driving shoes
I thought loafers were considered more formal… I'll get myself some chukkas! Thanks Antonio.
What about Crocs?
How can I style gray dress shoe with a suit
Isn't the whole cut, black, the most formal??!
I disagree with anything mustard color other than actual mustard.
Great, fun and instructive video! I do wear my double monks with suits at more formal occasions, though, and I think they fit well 😉
That Is My Favorite Loafers Black Shoes.
I HATE Loafer's
So prom couldn’t wear Chelsea boots is what I’m understanding.. which my son wants to do…
Storetroopers wore chelsea boots? Whoa, that's one fact I didn't expect to learn here haha
Working for louis Philippe shoeswear so this is very helpful
A pair of black Gastby’s go with most anything.
Great video, thank you! But I cannot fully agree with the Monkstrap, because I for my feeling it can be more formal than a wingtip brogue or a derby (imagine wearing black double monks with a black suit …). I understand your point, it's also possible to wear it with jeans – that's what makes it so great.
Did you remove the link for Ace Marks?
I'd certainly wear a suit with black Oxford half brogues to an interview. Wing tip and long wing in brown are best for casual wear with a tweed jacket.
In general the lighter the color, the more casual the shoe and the more brogue / patterns, the more casual the shoe. So, brogues are a casual shoe and therefor should not be black…although nowadays most companies do not respect these codes, so as to give people more choices.
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Even storm troopers lololol im done he doesn’t miss anything
Thanks and very informative. I was looking at a pair of shoes that is not in any of these categories and not sure what they are called. They are like a derby but has a square piece over the top front.
I’m not sure I can support the oxymoron here. How can a dress shoe be casual it’s like a showing off while being reserved???
I think when we do things like this this is how future generations get confused dress shoes are formal and they shouldn’t be thought of as a casual shoe.
Brogue
Chelsea boots
Monkstrab
Loafer
Dress boots
Currently I only have a small collection, but I have the basics covered in a range of formalities.
First off I have a pair of black calf captoe oxfords, from Barker's. They're the most formal option I have and work well when I'm wearing black or white tie, as well as for funerals. Did a decent job of putting a mirror polish on the toes.
Second option, and my most expensive and recent, is a pair of mid-brown calf half-brogue oxfords, from Crockett & Jones, slightly less formal and can be dressed up or down.
Third option is a pair of reddish tan suede derbys from Clarks, a lot less formal, but also due to being suede, partial rubber sole, and a nice innersole, they're the most comfortable of my formal shoes.
My brother has a smaller selection and his most formal shoe is pair of black derbys, not quite as formal but when I shined them up they still do the job just fine, he has a great pair of handmade English clogs though which are really interesting, definitely not formal at all despite being black leather, there's still a couple of industries in the UK like metalworking where they're still useful footwear to protect you from hot metal swarf on the floor that would melt the rubber on normal shoes.
Queen Victoria apparently really liked Chelsea boots, before they were called Chelsea boots, they were practical and comfortable for her while still being formal enough for Victorian era fashion tastes. I think royal approval definitely gives them a boost in formality, and they really can range from fairly formal polished leather to more funky casual designs in rough leather or suede and bold colours.
I'm from Texas and was wondering where do Western style exotic skinned boots (ie alligator, ostrich, etc) fit in your category? I've seen them worn in suits and black tie occasions.
Great video! Very insightful 🙌
Excellent ❤
Would you wear any of these if you work in a wearhouse?
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Loafers have always looked like old womens shoes, especially tassel loafers.
Very nice presentation for a newbie like me
The only thing I would say is rules around formality can be regional and time/event specific… for example, in England you would absolutely see someone wearing formal style lace up boots, usually with broguing, paired with a suit – but only a tweed or heavily textured suit and only during the daytime or at more casual events/activities e.g at the horse racing, but only at specific race courses.
So, there are 3 lines of progresion for the formality of a shoe…
Colour
Construction
Materials/details
1st: The darker and more muted the more formal, so black is always the most formal and then we go into dark muted like brown, oxblood and burgundy and then we go into the more vibrant colours like the blues, the pure reds, the greens, the yellow, gray. But tan is muted and absolutely not flashy, so that is a curve ball.
2nd: simple construction, closed lace system, the precense of laces and being a shoe and not a boot is more formal. The one thing keeping the wholecut behind is the lack of tradition and history, but it might be #2 if it is black and it is properly shined to a mirror gloss finish in the toe.
3rd: plain, simple and smooth materials are more formal and the addition of texture, details and visual complications/decorations in the shoe take away from the formality. So a smooth leather in a very closed porosity that allows for a mirror shine if wanted is more formal and then we go into a more coarse leather grain, nubuck, swade, textiles, etc. Same with details like brouges, captoes, wingtips, medalions, buckles, straps, etc. If they add to the shoe on top of the plain construction, then they take away from the formality of the shoe.
Got it right?
Well, I really think it all depends on a lot of things… a black oxford that has a medalion in the toe but it lacks captoe and is properly shined to a missor gloss finish in the toe can easily look better with a black suit (not black tie, but black suit) than a proper plain oxford that has not been taken care of.
As long as the rest of the rules of dressing codes and traditions stay in place, we can break 1 or 2 to pull of something more modern and visually atractive. And that will depend of the level of formality too, I wouldn't use red nubuck loafers for a white tie dress code, but I could see myself pulling out a nice pair of very deep oxblod oxfords properly shines in a formal black suit with a deep oxblood leather band for my watch.
“Calf leather”?
Thanks for this information. Where does the Chukka fits in?
What style of shoe does John WIck wear?
Awesome. How shoes goes on from most formal to most casual, types of shoes, which one goes with what…. Amazing. got o learn so much. you nailed it.
Thank you Sir , you are amazing