Doug B
Footballguy
TL;DR -- nice looking casual dressy shoes with bulletproof soles that I can wear for more than a year? Oh, and not break the bank?
I park about a seven-minute walk from my office. The whole walk is either over uneven concrete or across a brick courtyard. I do that walk, both ways up to four times a day.
It is absolutely killing the soles of my shoes. In my former job, I parked close to the office door and pretty much walked on carpet all day. These days, the concrete and brick are cracking the soles of my shoes open.
I guess because I wasn't that hard on shoes in the recent past, I got used to buying cheap shoes (< $75, often more like < $60) and not worrying about it so long as they looked good enough. Now, though, I need something that still looks good in the office but with soles that can stand up to significant wear and tear.
If it helps: I don't wear a suit and tie to work. Casual office in a hot climate -- polos & slacks 8 months out of the year, jeans on Fridays. Not a fan of the dress-shoe/athletic-shoe hybrids unless the athletic elements are VERY subdued (e.g. no striping along the sides). I'm kinda stuck in the 1980s with shoes ... the styles that were popular then (what the preppy kids wore, like Bass Weejuns loafers) are the styles I still like now. Strongly prefer loafers to lace-ups, but could move on "the right pair" of lace-ups.
I park about a seven-minute walk from my office. The whole walk is either over uneven concrete or across a brick courtyard. I do that walk, both ways up to four times a day.
It is absolutely killing the soles of my shoes. In my former job, I parked close to the office door and pretty much walked on carpet all day. These days, the concrete and brick are cracking the soles of my shoes open.
I guess because I wasn't that hard on shoes in the recent past, I got used to buying cheap shoes (< $75, often more like < $60) and not worrying about it so long as they looked good enough. Now, though, I need something that still looks good in the office but with soles that can stand up to significant wear and tear.
If it helps: I don't wear a suit and tie to work. Casual office in a hot climate -- polos & slacks 8 months out of the year, jeans on Fridays. Not a fan of the dress-shoe/athletic-shoe hybrids unless the athletic elements are VERY subdued (e.g. no striping along the sides). I'm kinda stuck in the 1980s with shoes ... the styles that were popular then (what the preppy kids wore, like Bass Weejuns loafers) are the styles I still like now. Strongly prefer loafers to lace-ups, but could move on "the right pair" of lace-ups.
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But I hear ya.
I love em. the GF loves em, and get ####loads of compliments on them from fashion-conscious females, including a good friend who owns a boutique in NYC. That's good enough for me. 
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