Black Oxford Shoes with a Kilt?

[Bugbear]

Completely acceptable and attractive IMHO.

Thank you. I like them because they are very simple with no decoration and a good, smooth finnish.

[Carolina Kiltman]

Take good care of them. Good shoes, and good looking shoes (like those) are getting harder and harder to find these days. If you look at news pictures of kilted gentlemen from the highlands, most of the time they are wearing shoes of that general type. (What in the Navy we referred to as "low quarter", but they had no toe cap.)

[Bugbear]

Take good care of them. Good shoes, and good looking shoes (like those) are getting harder and harder to find these days. If you look at news pictures of kilted gentlemen from the highlands, most of the time they are wearing shoes of that general type. (What in the Navy we referred to as "low quarter", but they had no toe cap.)

Yes, and these are very reasonablly priced. I like the cap toe style, but plain toe is fine too. I did see one pair of the plain toe, but they did not have the smooth shine. This was the only pair I could find that I felt good about, and I've looked in multiple stores.

[pdcorlis]

Understated elegance Ted - very classy.

[Bugbear]

Understated elegance Ted - very classy.

Great! Thanks! That's exactly what I wanted.

They're going to look exelent with my black suit too.

[Tartan Hiker]

Oddly enough, that's the same shoes my son "MadBagpiper" wears with his band uniform. We added long laces so he looks like he's wearing GB's. Why not just buy him a pair of ghillies, you ask?

He wears a size 15.

[thescot]

Nice looking shoes, Ted. And if they're from Nunn Bush, they're probably fine. And I'll bet they'll take a really good shine with a little work. You know, the old "spit shine" routine we learned in the military, only you dont' really use spit.

A blucher is a type of oxford. The eyelets are in two flaps which "flap" over the tongue of the shoe as opposed to another type oxford like you see on a wing tip where the eyelets for the laces are in a portion of the upper of the shoe that is split stright up in the upper itself.

Only a geek like me who started out at 14 selling shoes would know--or care--about the difference.

The differences are demontrated in the photo above, but actually--at least in the US shoe market--both qualify as oxfords. One, I think, is a dress oxford, the other a blucher oxford. At least, that's how we named and sold them 40 years ago.

[Bugbear]

Oddly enough, that's the same shoes my son "MadBagpiper" wears with his band uniform. We added long laces so he looks like he's wearing GB's. Why not just buy him a pair of ghillies, you ask?

He wears a size 15.

That's interesting.

I do not buy ghillies, in part, because I need to use the shoes with both my regular suits, and the kilt outfit I will be putting together.
Glad to hear they work well.

[Bugbear]

Nice looking shoes, Ted. And if they're from Nunn Bush, they're probably fine. And I'll bet they'll take a really good shine with a little work. You know, the old "spit shine" routine we learned in the military, only you dont' really use spit.

A blucher is a type of oxford. The eyelets are in two flaps which "flap" over the tongue of the shoe as opposed to another type oxford like you see on a wing tip where the eyelets for the laces are in a portion of the upper of the shoe that is split stright up in the upper itself.

Only a geek like me who started out at 14 selling shoes would know--or care--about the difference.

The differences are demontrated in the photo above, but actually--at least in the US shoe market--both qualify as oxfords. One, I think, is a dress oxford, the other a blucher oxford. At least, that's how we named and sold them 40 years ago.

Thanks, thescot.
The terms are a bit overlapping, but it was the rounded cap toe that I was looking for on the shoes, and yes, Nunn Bush has been around for a long time. I am told they do already have a shiney finish compared to all the other non-patent leather shoes we looked at in the stores.

It's a very smooth finish, and has a nice feel. Oddly, every pair of patent leather shoes, across all price ranges I looked at felt like a rubber finish; though, I was told they were very shiney. They had that feel like when you dip a tool handle into the rubber grip stuff. I expect patent leather to feel very slick or glassy like the finish on a grand piano or something... Very strange and disappointing.

[thescot]

Being an old Marine, I prefer the look of well polished leather to patent leather anyway. You made a very good choice. That shoe is a classic style, and, while writing this, I just remembered that I am wearing a pair of cap toed shoes right now.

They certainly will go with anything, so you made a good choice.