Formal Buckle Shoes

[CMcG]

Nice post DWFII, you certainly know your buckle shoes!

<snip>

But the shoe depicted in the photo above is...

Could you clarify which of the many photos above you are referring to?

<snip>

I believe the buckle shoe looks much better and much more masculine than the Mary Janes depicted in the second photo. That's just my opinion...for what its worth.

That is also my lass' opinion.

[DWFII]

Nice post DWFII, you certainly know your buckle shoes!



Could you clarify which of the many photos above you are referring to?

Page one, post one...the first shoe is a faux buckle shoe, the second is a "Mary Jane."

[MacLowlife]

Those slippers you show are a more elegant version of mine.

MoR's comments remind me of a very funny sequence in the movie version of Tristram Shandy, in which heel height becomes an issue.


I do have some calfskin pumps which I sometimes wear with the kilt, but I am content to leave them with a bow instead of a buckle. I like the look of the buckle, mind, but an old sweetheart was crazy about a shoe famously made by Roger Vivier and worn by Catherine DeNeuve. She called them Pilgrim Flats and thought they were swell. Were I to put a square buckle on my calfskin pumps, they would look a great deal like her Vivier flats. I am ready to defend either the grosgrain bow or the Jolly Roger, but I ain't no pilgrim, Pilgrim...

For those who must have just a little more tartan, at least one company will make up the "Albert" style dinner slipper in your tartan fabric. If wearing them with a kilt, though, I suspect you would want to balance the outfit with a tartan sweatband at the forehead...



http://www.shiptonandheneage.co.uk/c...rs-2559-0.html


(It does also come in a number of plain black versions that might look good with those buckles- and not a bit like Catherine DeNeuve...)

http://www.shiptonandheneage.co.uk/l...rs-2362-0.html

[CMcG]

Thanks for those links MacLowlife. I like the way the tongue on the Albert slipper looks much better than the dainty openness of the pump:

Yes:


Not for me:



It's also very interesting to read people's associations with these different shoe styles. To some, the buckle shoe is too "pilgrim" or "costumey," perhaps a bit "pirate" even? To others, the bar and buckle dress brogue is a "Mary Jane" and "not masculine."