And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
This comes from the French Court. In the reign of the great Louis, the Fourteenth of that name, the soles of men’s shoes were red, as a symbol of status and wealth. (Mind you, the men wore high heels tied on with satin bows.) The fashion endures.
This was an age of absolute hierarchy, and everyone know who they were and where they belonged, no identity crisis, no angst. Ah, the good old days. . .
No traction, and ridiculously overlong toe points.
Pass.
Just secured half a dozen pairs of new military-issue grade leather oxfords. I still have the original pair I was issued in boot camp, and the spit shine I put on them 40 years ago still looks better than the average work from a shoe shine booth does, fresh.
I expect this current batch, along with their older brother, to last me until I'm needing something to go on my feet in the casket some decades hence, heaven willing.
And the lot, combined, will cost me less (like far less than half, all-in), last longer, and look better, than one pair of those silly red-soled extravagancies would. Keep such transitory fashion, I'm going with everlasting style.
Those things are strictly for people with more money than brains.
These are absolutely beautiful shoes! The price of them is immaterial and relative. We should appreciate fine workmanship and beautiful leather, no matter the practicality, cost or utility. Sometimes useful things are also artful things, and it's of life's pleasures when they are both.
Slippin' an' a slidin' everywhere. No thanks.
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ReplyDelete...in the vicinity of a mere $950.00...quite a bargain!
at last...
ReplyDeleteThis comes from the French Court. In the reign of the great Louis, the Fourteenth of that name, the soles of men’s shoes were red, as a symbol of status and wealth. (Mind you, the men wore high heels tied on with satin bows.) The fashion endures.
ReplyDeleteThis was an age of absolute hierarchy, and everyone know who they were and where they belonged, no identity crisis, no angst. Ah, the good old days. . .
Just another impractical status symbol, so that insecure people can show off their wealth, like lace collars during the Tudor dynasty.
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No traction, and ridiculously overlong toe points.
ReplyDeletePass.
Just secured half a dozen pairs of new military-issue grade leather oxfords.
I still have the original pair I was issued in boot camp, and the spit shine I put on them 40 years ago still looks better than the average work from a shoe shine booth does, fresh.
I expect this current batch, along with their older brother, to last me until I'm needing something to go on my feet in the casket some decades hence, heaven willing.
And the lot, combined, will cost me less (like far less than half, all-in), last longer, and look better, than one pair of those silly red-soled extravagancies would. Keep such transitory fashion, I'm going with everlasting style.
Those things are strictly for people with more money than brains.
Oh, the envy of the peasant.
ReplyDeleteVery nice shoes man. I'd wear those, certainly not at $950, but they are simply nice shoes.
ReplyDeleteNot me, man. Give me a pair of boots - nice shiny boots.
DeleteWho are your preferred boot makers?
DeleteGood grief....they have the same shoes at Walmart, without the red sole
ReplyDeleteWon’t look like that more than 10 steps in SF or Oakland.
ReplyDeleteThese are absolutely beautiful shoes! The price of them is immaterial and relative. We should appreciate fine workmanship and beautiful leather, no matter the practicality, cost or utility. Sometimes useful things are also artful things, and it's of life's pleasures when they are both.
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