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These pages are some thoughts, ideas and research into Men's style. We'll keep it light and breezy while hopefully sharing helpful guideposts to finding your most stylish approaches to life. We are 100% here to help if we can - without aiming cheap shots at any existing style you may or may not currently have. Another tone we'll steer away from is one that implies style and fashion actually matter in the big picture of life when of course, they don't really.

What's the point then? As with anything, a small discovery at skin deep can help unravel more important things within us. Perhaps if style deals with the superficial, we may find that while we aim to make changes to our appearances and social impact we learn more about ourselves than we planned - or maybe we'll just be glad to find a new shirt.

The goal here is to widen the lens for anyone interested in finding a new style for any reason or occasion. Perhaps a guy is interested in a fresh look for his interview or first date or a wife is looking for a tie maker for her husband. Unsure about jewelery on a guy? Tattoos? Perhaps you have a speech to deliver at a wedding and some tips would be welcome. Maybe you need to be able to dance at a Ball or Salsa Club and wonder what moves can get you by...hopefully some answers at least will be found here...

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Shoes to Cruise 1

Great jeans demand great shoes. Few men get this area right (especially in the eyes of the women we know) but it's not as tough as we might think. As with jeans, we need the right shoe designer, then we can find a safe but beautifully made shoe and get more creative from there.
Usually we aim to create a look within the 3 budget groups but it's tough to do that with shoes so prices are sporadic here. On these posts we'll give suggestions in 2 style brackets though: Casual and Smart, with each bracket representing the next 2 posts. This process is a ton of fun for several different reasons but mostly because there's just something great about having fabulous shoes under you.
This week: Casual shoes.
A few quick fundamentals: Firstly, rule out sports shoes as they will ruin the look of your great new jeans - especially no running shoes allowed. Remember, the look is casual not sport or recreation. Comfort and style for a relaxed situation not athletics. You might think some of the choices this week resemble training shoes but the designers out there create subtle but significant differences.

Secondly (and this goes with both brackets) get your socks right. Keep your sock colour as similar to the general shoe colour as you can - simple as that.

Check these sneaks out and see what you like:

Brand: ALDO. Model: "LIMBER" ($38.00)






Brand: Converse. Model: "Jack Purcell Garment Dye" ($50.00)
N.b. check out the Converse website (http://www.converse.com/) and see their cool set-up where you can design your own shoes with any detail you want on it.







Brand: Paul Smith (UK). Model: "Rabbit Sneaker". (205 UK Pounds)
N.b That's about $300 and you need to make sure if you order these from the the UK that you really get your sizes right as there is a half size difference. Although it's a tough deal to juggle - Paul Smith is all around one of the most cutting edge designers out there today. Worth it? That's for you to decide: http://www.paulsmith.co.uk/





Brand: PUMA. Model: "Jiyu Slip-on shoes". ($42.00)
If you like these you could get another pair in black.






Brand: Diesel. Model: "Pass On" - available in 3 or 4 colour options
(currently on sale on the Deisel Website for $45.00 for a bargain at http://www.diesel.com/)






Brand: Lacoste. Model: Cerberus 6 ($77.99 on sale). This shoe fits the 'simple is beautiful' mould. You can't go wrong with this one.
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