The Rise of Dress Sneakers - STYLISH OR TRAGIC?

[@yitziyyb]

Nice overview. Surprised you didn't mention Johnson Murphy, Rockport or Ecco.

[@modernfellows]

Good call. I'll add them to the underlying article.

[@sdn4134]

Not sure. I do have a pair they are comfortable. Cole hann zero grand. However I will say that the most comfortable shoes I have are Allen Edmonds Park Avenue Oxford hard bottom. Don’t know how they do it but darn they’re comfortable.

[@BLAKERIDES]

Ahh I think Rockport might have done it in the 80’s

[@treydrier3169]

Beckett Simonon ... wow are those fuggly! I have 2 pair of Wolf & Shepperd and like them a lot. They run a half size big imo. Very comfortable and watch for sales. I picked up a $180 pair for $108. That's a bargain for these quality shoes.

[@HeritageCast]

Allen Edmonds with the Traveler shoe was able to pull off a "dress sneaker". Although due to the type of rubber it doesnt last. If you hack off the Danite sole on a dress shoe and put a Vibram Christy outsole you can have a sleeper dress sneaker. But this is also where the PAcific Northwest Boots, Italian, Portugese boots come in. As both the casualization, and beyond expensive and fashion have settled. Where you get both comfort and fashion in say a Beckett Simmonon, Crocket & jones, Allen Edmonds, Nicks, Whites, JK boots.. There is a whole segment of men and women walking away from Modernity and its good...

[@sdn4134]

I do hate the suit and Jordan’s thing it’s stupid to me

[@auvet1986]

Hopefully they will go the way of the leisure suit.

[@VuTrinh-c9n]

Dress sneakers? What an oxymoron

[@HeritageCast]

Its the parent company of Allen Edmonds trying to cash in....

[@timothyslaughter476]

If it was bound to happen it will be bound to not happen eventually.

[@bjtucker5]

Tragic. Definitely. This fad needs to💀 Give it another year or so. People will look back and cringe

[@normalperson8173]

it is quite indeed, tragic

[@Leo-uo9lb]

Probably the most cringe piece of clothing of all time