Almost everyone else in the Timberland store was buying something like that. Well, not those tassled things, but those awful boating shoes.
If there's one surefire way to indicate you don't live in the real world, it's wearing boating shoes. As if you might have to go boating at any moment.
The only thing worse would be wearing a boater hat.
At my school in 1980-81, those tassled loafers were de rigeur. It was either those or 4-hole DM shoes. Anything else got you laughed off the premises. Actually, some kids had a version of the slip-on loafer with a crappy 'gold' bar across the front instead of the tassles, but they were really shit. I had a wicked pair of black & white brogue tassled loafers, inspired by Paul Weller, but I wasn't allowed to wear those to school.
I've owned that Dance Craze album for 25-ish years, and never once noticed that the shoes were tassled loafers. But yeah, the loafers with the gold bar/ornament thing is the worst, followed by loafers with tassles and then just loafers.
I bought a pair of Timberlands last week, but they were those canvas and leather chukka boots, rather than boat shoes or loafers (it probably goes without saying).
dd gets a slip-on exemption due to them being a) boots and b) Blundstone-style pull-ons.
Sorry if these rules seem arbitrary and capricious, but there you go.
Those tasseled loafers were known as Weejans (sp?) at my school in the mid-70s. Anyone who was anyone was wearing them, with as many segs as the shoes (and the wearers legs) could carry hammered into the soles.
Everyone sounded like a squaddie walking down the corridors at school.
Oh, and the boots you refer to Reed are probably Blundstones or RM Williams.
I don't see why anyone would want to wear shoes in their house. Slippers, okay--soft, cushy things to keep your feet warm. But after about 15 minutes of wearing slippers, my feet get hot.
Yeah, California boy, but in the rest of the free world* our houses are a little chilly for a good part of the year. I'd rather wear shoes than slippers around the house, actually. But when I do, I hear that screeching noise.
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