re: Good shoe for traveling in Europe?

Vans and Puma are extremely popular among younger people, essentially if under 30 you can pull it off

Just got back and saw every shoe imaginable. My suggestion is two fold:
1. take a casual pair (running or athletic shoe) for daytime traversing and a pair of dress shoes for the evening. On the days we had dinner plans at nicer places, we always came back to the hotel to shower and change.
2. make sure all shoes are broken in well in advance

That being said, whatever you are comfortable in will be fine. I found people in most places were overly casual.

Thanks. Yeah, now that I think about it we’ll probably be heading back to the room before we go to a nice dinner. I’ve found it helpful to search the destinations on Instagram and see what most people are wearing. Judging by their accounts they are French (probably French tourist) and are mostly wearing casual shoes already mentioned like Converse, Vans, Allbirds and Stan Smiths.

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when did those Adidas start being called Stan Smith’s

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According to Wikipedia since the 60s when he received royalties for using his name. Maybe you’re thinking of a different shoe? He was a tennis player not soccer.

Clark’s Desert Boot




Regardless of your shoe choice, make sure you break them in prior. You don’t want to spend Day 3 of your trip hobbling around Paris asking Ou est la pharamacie?