COMMENT 1. My very good friend and fellow business traveler wrote to me:
The head doorman at the Intercontinental Hotel in Paris once told me that he could, with 90 percent accuracy, tell what country you were from by looking at your shoes. I realized that my 12 pound black wingtips were a dead giveaway.
Walt
****BREAKING NEWS *** I got a photo, via email, warning all men! See it at the bottom of this blog
What is a 12 pound black wingtip??? I bet you grandkids have many pair in you closet. Ha, Ha! Before I give you the official definition of a wingtip and show you a photo, I went to the web to try and find the uniform a wingtip goes with. Here are some typical wingtip uniforms:
A famous NJ man wearing a proper Wingtip uniform.
I think this is an ex-IBM’er in proper uniform.
Found five female executives — at least the one on our right is in proper uniform with wingtips!
Oh, you say what is a wingtip? -First a photo from Johnson Murphy – The shoe source of presidents!:
Men’s wingtip
Another men’s Wingtip
OOPS! who put that shoe there – Perla, did you do it?
Women’s wingtip
Another Women’s wingtip
See the difference? Ha, Ha. We are identical and identifiable through our one style shoe – men/women – It don’t matter?
Well, when I see Perla again you will know, by my boots, that I am different! But still one style.
In my opinion, though, women executives or no-executives should appreciate having many shoes styles to choose from – why do I think that? – cause it makes them look nice! So, I went to more shoe stores, on the web, to see if fashion folk thought women needed many wingtip styles to choose from –
Now, for the beauty and the creativity of women. I found that they are not afraid to sing “I Did It My Way” and choose shoes their way. They can have the stogie old style of the men some days (see above) and on other days they can wear these!
Beautiful – I say “We need more female executives”
Beautiful – I say “We need more female executives
COMMENT # 2. “Shoes are a girl’s best friend. Great shots and very observant.” —I was hoping that I might be her best friend — it is hard loosing out to a shoe (boot), you Know! But, I really support the idea of using beauty over function some of the time — Then say I, “Sometimes beauty = function”, see:
COMMENT # 3. “I bought a pair of over-shoes to wade/fish with my son. they are made out of a synthetic material now and still leak after a year or so of casual use. What in heaven did they make over-shoes out of in 1900?” —
I went to the working man’s web site and found a company called, Tingley Rubber –– I extract a quote from their site: “The Tingley Company isn’t named after your expected response when you wear their apparel. It’s actually named after it’s founder, Charles O. Tingley, who got his start selling tire plugs for bicycles. And he did it ON his bicycle, going from city to city. With that kind of determination, he got a rubber company going with his two sons. In the early 1900’s, he designed the first compression-molded stretchable unlined rubber overshoe.”
So, now you know a answer to a question I had no idea about until the web — Come to think of it this whole story was created from the web with information I knew very little about WOW What the rest of you 70+ year old friends think of that?
When Momma is happy – everyone is happy – If momma has many shoes, momma is happy – I love it – even if my wallet is thiner by far
Oh how do some dictionaries define a wingtip shoe: it is ‘characterised by multiple-piece, sturdy leather uppers with decorative perforations (or “broguing”) and serration along the pieces’ visible edges.[1] Modern brogues trace their roots to a rudimentary shoe originating in Scotland and Ireland that was constructed using untanned hide with perforations, allowing water to drain when crossing wet terrain such as a bog
This photo arrived in my e-mail “Words” are mine.
Men, If your lady wears these shoes, protect what you don’t want kicked!
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