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[Woot22]

I would punch myself in the face if I ever paid $700 bucks on a pair of shoes, no way no how.

[artificer]

HERE is a pair of shoes that I would wear in a skinny minute, kilted or not, except for 678 small reasons, none of them being color, sole thickness, or even that tongue...


http://www.paulstuart.com/product_in...SUBPRODCATID=0

Sigh!
Those are gorgeous. Probably the only pair of ghillies I've ever seen that have made me want them.

ith:

[MacLowlife]

I would punch myself in the face if I ever paid $700 bucks on a pair of shoes, no way no how.

One lesson I have learned is that things may not always go up in price, but the ones you want generally do. $700 for a pair of shoes sounds ridiculous to me, too, but then so did $200 at one time. There is an old story about Burns and his brother watching a rooster chasing a hen. Along came the farmer with some food and the rooster stopped to eat. Burns remarked "I hope I am never that hungry."

I don't imagine I'll ever be so rich that the price of a pair of shoes doesn't matter, but I have paid more for a nice lunch than I have paid earlier in my short life for a pair of shoes.

[Woot22]

One lesson I have learned is that things may not always go up in price, but the ones you want generally do. $700 for a pair of shoes sounds ridiculous to me, too, but then so did $200 at one time. There is an old story about Burns and his brother watching a rooster chasing a hen. Along came the farmer with some food and the rooster stopped to eat. Burns remarked "I hope I am never that hungry."

I don't imagine I'll ever be so rich that the price of a pair of shoes doesn't matter, but I have paid more for a nice lunch than I have paid earlier in my short life for a pair of shoes.

Great parable I plan on remembering that one and using myself, too funny. You also make an excellent point on perceptions changing as our circumstances do. Perhaps one day I will be able to look at a 700 dollar price tag on some new shoes and think to myself, sweet bargain. That would certainly be nice.

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

A great many of the Paul Stuart shoes are, or seem to be, made by Crockett & Jones, and are listed on their web site at about $500, a tad less than Mr. Stuart's prices. Didn't see the ghillies though. That said, I suspect they may be available from someone like Trickers on Jermyn Street.

As to the cost... Ben Franklin was right when he opined that quality remains long after price is forgotten. given a modicum of care those $700 ghillies will last 20 years-- whats that? $35 a year? Less than TEN CENTS a day? Seems cheap enough to me.

[beloitpiper]

Sigh!
Those are gorgeous. Probably the only pair of ghillies I've ever seen that have made me want them.

ith:

Agreed! Those are simply gorgeous! Why is it so hard to find ghillies in brown?

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Agreed! Those are simply gorgeous! Why is it so hard to find ghillies in brown?

Probably because brown shoes tend to stain easily and look rather bad after tramping around in the out of doors, something that does not occur with black shoes.

[artificer]

Agreed! Those are simply gorgeous! Why is it so hard to find ghillies in brown?

Probably because brown shoes tend to stain easily and look rather bad after tramping around in the out of doors, something that does not occur with black shoes.

That's the one thing that always keeps me from buying what Allen Edmonds calls "Walnut" leathers.

They're a bugger to get the scuffs and scrapes out of, the leather burnishes oddly with use, and they stain with mud/sweat/tannin/ale.

They do look lovely though.

ith:

[MacLowlife]

Someone who knows more than I do can comment on the "brown shoe army" of the 20th century, but I would suggest that brown is usually the natural color of leather and as such, ought to be a desirable one. l agree, some of those beautiful tan colors ( whisk(e)y, buff, maple, English tan, saddle, luggage, etc.) suffer mightily in the real world. I think that is the theory behind suede and light colored suedes being the province of the idle rich- nobody else can maintain them.

But honest brown, brown the color of leather that has been maintained and oiled, seems to me to be the logical color of highland dress. Curiously, the shoes in MacLeay are almost never recognizably brown. Some seem to be sandy colored and some are of an indeterminate color, but most are, of course, black. In my fevered quest for country shoes, I was surprised again and again to see black shoes offered with soles and construction clearly intended never to see a bank boardroom. To my mind, they might as well have been patent leather. But I suppose black can always be polished over one more time.

Oh, but I did find something interesting in MacLeay- Two gents described as Forbes-Men seem to be ancestors of mine. Both of their belt buckles and both of their sporran cantles are embossed

LOWLIFE.

At least that's what it looks like to me. I guess the Mac came later.

[MacMillans son]

Probably because brown shoes tend to stain easily and look rather bad after tramping around in the out of doors, something that does not occur with black shoes.

And so, if you are of a culture/economic status where you must make do with only one pair of shoes for all occasions, you want that shoe to be able to look as good as possible,
hence black ?