Casual "dress" shoe

Cole Haan

You are asking a board whose members have ‘good’ jeans for church.

Allen Edmonds Strandmok. Can wear with jeans too. Has a reddish dainite sole too. Very comfortable. AE makes a brown snuff suede and blue, yes, suede version as well.

There are always the strands as well. A little dressier but can wear them with jeans, blues, or khakis. Probably best is the chili or walnut colors in strands.

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I wouldn't even waste my time with Cole Haan.

Wait until you're walking through the airport and the sole decides to separate. Just cheap glued junk.

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Glued construction shoes are fine as long as the price reflects what you are getting because they are essentially a disposable shoe but in fairness, most people treat shoes as disposable. The one thing you don't want to do is let them sit in the closet for a long time without any wear. Odds are when you take them out and wear them the soles will delaminate before the day is over.

I got some of the blue 993's.

I was kidding about the 990s but they really are a good shoe.

But for casual I usually stick with sperrys especially during the warm months which is almost always.

CH Grand line has it's place. I don't wear them to the office much, but you could. I primarily wear them traveling, because they're an amazing shoe to walk 8-10 miles in and then put on a sport coat to go to a reasonably nice dinner.

My slack/jean shoes are usually oxfords in a more "casual" color, like natural chromexcel. I had some AE ones I'm going to have to replace soon, looking at places like Oak Street Bootmaker or Rancourt - they're pretty good at hitting at that well-made casual look.

Been wearing these and they are comfy as hell

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