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Getting too old for sneakers with shorts.....help with shoes

Oyeve

Oyeve

Lifer
So, as I am 47, I am finding that my sneaker/shorts combo looks too juvenile. I wear cargo shorts or pleated casual shorts when its warm out and I find sneakers and my gray beard just doesn't work anymore. So, I turn to the ATOT casual shoe aficionados to recommend me some non-hipster-nondouchebag-casual footwear that I can wear with cargo or pleated casual summer shorts. I thought maybe loafers but I swear they all look horrible especially since I am only 5'10".
 
If you knew how seldom people notice you, you wouldn't really care, and besides, who gives a damn about what they think, they are insignificant shallow judgmental people to begin with, and you are trying to impress them? What a frigging waste of time, offend and happily move on to people that matter.
 
So that's what they're called. I was going to say "boat shoes."

Personally, I started wearing flip flops whenever I'm wearing my summer shorts. Guess that's juvenile. After I have kids, when I need to upgrade my style for the summer, I guess I'll just pick up the Banana Republic or J Crew catalog and copy that style.
 
Too old for sneakers? Might as well go the old velcro shoes old people wear.

Deck shoes are probably the best "too old for sneakers" shoe, but I'd never conform to that. Just don't buy the more gaudy sneakers. I will forever wear Jordan 11s. As long as they keep release them, I will keep buying them. Lows in the summer, Highs the rest of the year.
 
highland145 said:
Sperry's

There's another brand that's not coming to mind. It's been mentioned here. I don't like the way the sole is curved though.
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This is more or less what I wear, and have since I was a teenager. I prefer Sebago Docksides(are they still made?), and the two eyelet shoe, but I'm flexible as long as it's generally a boat shoe or moccasin.
 
Those look good
but now you have to decide black socks or white socks

shorts-and-black-socks.jpg


more here ...http://richland.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/black-socks-gang/
 
I'm a little older than you, and it's Converse BB high tops, either all white, or all black. I don't think they make them anymore, luckily I still have 6 unopened pairs.

It's about comfort, not what other people think. Although I rarely wear shorts, never have.
 
boat shoes, seude bucks, plimsolls.

nothing wrong with some casual sneakers. something like a rebook classic, kswiss, etc.

some people say it's always sockless in the summer. I think it's better with loafer socks or some no show socks. My feet sweat a lot.
 
M0oG0oGaiPan said:
some people say it's always sockless in the summer. I think it's better with loafer socks or some no show socks. My feet sweat a lot.
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I only wear socks when I am wearing dress shoes, need to keep my feet warm, or am going to participate in an activity that will cause my feet to sweat a large amount.
 
highland145 said:
Yep but I'm having trouble linking it.
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Yowza, £108. They've gone up since I bought some new. I have a bunch I've gotten from the thrift shop. When I find them in good condition, I buy them and squirrel them away. I probably have a lifetime supply by now, but I'll take all I can get for ~$10 a pair :^D
 
norseamd said:
what the fuck does this shit mean?
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It means cargo shorts are no longer something a fashionable person would wear? I don't get what you don't understand about the statement.

I'd argue cargo shorts were never really in fashion outside of the bro community and maybe the rapper community.
 
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