Clown Shoes
Manolo says, these they may perhaps be appropriate if you were to be cast as the “2nd Travelling Salesman” in the community theatre version of The Music Man
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June 14th, 2006 at 1:22 pm
The Annalucia, she will admit that she has never seen the point of the two-tone shoe: not the saddle shoe, not the spectator pump, and certainly not the shoe displayed here by the Manolo. These shoes, they try too hard. In the men’s style, they scream “Lounge Lizard!” and in the women’s style, they whimper, “I am suffering from the identity-crisis, I do not know who I am, nor where I belong.”
June 14th, 2006 at 1:51 pm
i spoke to the etro rep about these at the shoe show in las vegas earlier this year. apparently, these sell well to the monied ball players
June 14th, 2006 at 2:55 pm
I think the designers of shoes like these are engaged in a practical joke, or, in a more benign view, a test of their customers. I like to think that they hope that no one will be foolish enough to buy these things, otherwise I’m left imagining how they must delight in seeing such utterly ridiculous things purchased and worn.
No, the thought experiment fails. No one would go to the trouble of making shoes that they hope no one buys, so these things must be a trap!
The Manolo is uncanny with his musical theater references: it does seem that every production The Music Man features bad plaids. I know the one I was in did!
June 14th, 2006 at 3:39 pm
Bad plaid, and the barbershop quartet always wears striped jackets.
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You can bicker, you can talk;
You can bicker, bicker, bicker
You can talk, you can talk
You can talk, talk, talk, talk,
Bicker, bicker, bicker
You can talk all you wanna
But it’s different then it was!”
“No it ain’t, no it ain’t!
But you gotta know the territory!”
June 14th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
In Steve Martin’s immortal words, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid.
June 14th, 2006 at 4:37 pm
I ought to be ashamed to admit this in public, but I have known at least one person in the past whose personality, at least, would match these shoes-if not exactly vice-versa.
That is not to say that said personage would ever actually WEAR such a shoe, let alone purchase it with their own money.
…but perhaps if it pleased madamme…?
June 14th, 2006 at 5:06 pm
Prints like these are fun on the golf course, but these are clearly not golf shoes.
June 14th, 2006 at 5:40 pm
Chairman of the Bored, the curiosity of the Annalucia has been piqued by your statement. What kind of personality would match the Clown Shoes pictured here?
June 14th, 2006 at 9:17 pm
Buona sera Annalucia. I’m affraid my prolixity makes me fear answering that question in full; I would like to save band-width and column inches for other posters. But never one to give short shrift to an earnest request, briefly, I will say that my almost-friend was born to an age-old family back east, and in fact, was a true scion. He always wore a well starched and bleached collar, with a genetic code to match. To His families horror, He had recieved the Lothario Gene and was sent to Santa Barbara to save staining above said families reputation. He was generally given to Presbyterian entertainments, such as golf and single malt scotch (neat).
His REAL passion was lounging around the pool at the Hotel above Butterfly Beach whose name I wont give- and finding out where crashable doings were-then when the evenings rolled round, he would give full wing to his satyriasis.
Failing that hcould usually always be found at The Grill, sorting the chaff from the riff raff with intnent to defile.
Though slightly balding, he was nonetheless hansome and his corruption seemed to have a devilish charm about it which rendered all of his…peccadillos…forgivable.
If anyone is wondering by this point if I learned anything from his playbook, I will only say that I would not be the Chairman of the Bored if I had!!!
June 15th, 2006 at 12:22 am
I can see where these would work. My friends and I go swing dancing quite often, and with exactly the right outfit these two tone numbers could work. After all, swing dancing is an anachronistic endevour, it calls for anachronistic shoes.
June 15th, 2006 at 10:26 am
Looks like footwear for an 80’s Ska band.
June 15th, 2006 at 12:03 pm
The shoes could also do double-duty in a production of “Guys and Dolls’.
June 15th, 2006 at 5:12 pm
The desertwind says rock steady!
http://2-tone.info/
But, these plaid horrors ain’t.
June 17th, 2006 at 4:33 am
The first name that popped into my head when I saw those shoes: RYAN STILES
Who’s Line is it Anyway fans know what I’m talking about
June 19th, 2006 at 9:26 am
i actually kind of like the shoes. “for-fun” shoes, for a day of feeling like a bit of silliness.
May 11th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
What interests me most is that most replies are from women. Women undoubtedly wear some of the most disgusting shoes ever made. Women should not be telling men what to wear even if those men are their husbands and boyfriends.
These shoes are not my favorites and I’d probably never buy them but the two tone shoe or spectator will always be part of the ‘dapper’ man’s wardrobe.
Most men’s shoes appear to be made for working on the farm, in the barn or fishing.
billbusse