What Footwear Are You Wearing Today?

[andrewdc]

Today, I’m wearing flip flops. Yesterday, Alden shell cordovan loafers, color 8.

 

[eagle2250]

Todays footwear are Timberland 3-Eyelet Camp Mocs, fitted with the Gum lugged soles. Comfortable to walk all over in and durable beyond one's expectations!

 

[Fading Fast]

Todays footwear are Timberland 3-Eyelet Camp Mocs, fitted with the Gum lugged soles. Comfortable to walk all over in and durable beyond one's expectations!

My first boat shoe - when I had no idea of their history or their place in Ivy style (since I had no idea about Ivy style) - was when I went to college and saw an ad in the college orientation guide for a dark burnt-orange boat shoe from Timberland and I wanted it, but it was (from memory) $80. This was when Timberland was still a highish-end company.

Now, I was making just above minimum wage, $4 an hour in '81 (which was what I was living on and paying my tuition with), so this was a tough savings slog. But I did it and, by the spring (took that long), I bought them and wore them almost every single day for the rest of my college time. By then, they were beat to hell, and looked great.

It was only when I got to Wall Street full time after college that I started to learn about Ivy style and that, coincidentally, I had bought an icon of the Ivy canon when I saved up for those boat shoes.

That's it, late on a Friday, your mention of Timberland sparked that memory.

 

[aldenshaft]

Hey folks! Wearing my 877 Red Wings today.

 

[eagle2250]

View attachment 49182 Hey folks! Wearing my 877 Red Wings today.

They may call them a work boot, but they are a casual/comfort shoe as well.

 

[TKI67]

I love them. They are cool. They are comfortable. As a Trad of the old school I find them outside of my ethos yet lovely. Perhaps they are of a new and enlarged ethos as others carry the flame.

 

[drpeter]

Todays footwear are Timberland 3-Eyelet Camp Mocs, fitted with the Gum lugged soles. Comfortable to walk all over in and durable beyond one's expectations!

I recently picked up a pair of brown leather Timberland boat shoes. They have hard rubber soles but these are not lugged. Very comfortable and light.

 

[TKI67]

Happy feet, Maliseet...