Hey all! I stopped into a Thursday Boots location today since I discovered one is only 4 blocks from work! I was blown away at the overall quality and real leather boot feeling. I tend to wear tailored chinos quite regularly and they were tailored to a normal dress shoe. I'm questioning if they'd actually work well with the half break tailored chinos though 🤔. Has anyone found they need to account for their pants choices because of the lack of a boot cut? Or, am I thinking way off point here? If I'm not off point, how do you manage which pants for better with different shoes?

I have multiple pair of oxfords, derbies and some double monks. However, I only have one pair of brown leather penny loafers. I’d like to get some new loafers so I can wear them more casually maybe a sport coat at most. Could go with jeans, chinos and pleated trousers. I’m specifically looking at trying Meermin for the first time, maybe a tassel (I linked penny), and seriously considering suede. Also lined or unlined? I really don’t know as I only have lined shoes. I’m very comfortable buying laced dress shoes but I’ve only recently come around to loafers. Any thoughts and opinions are welcome. https://meermin.com/collections/mens-loafers/products/514270-navy-suede-e https://meermin.com/collections/mens-loafers/products/514511-rust-superbuck-e https://meermin.com/products/514511-brown-superbuck-e

I ordered two new pairs of shoes on Cyber Monday, capturing some great deals. The TLB Mallorca shoes for Mallorca Spain arrived a week before Christmas. These came from the same city but via Cobbler Union. Not exactly breaking speed records but one of their customer service representatives kept me up to date throughout the process. These are my first Chelsea boots in about 15 years and I knew nothing about men’s shoes at the time. I also recently retired my last pair of suede shoes. Therefore, these babies fill two gaps in my wardrobe. Their beautiful deep brown is fantastic and I am in love with the soles of the shoes. They also seem to fit excellently. One disappointment is that I expected lasted shoe trees and these are not even boot shoe trees. I do welcome any feedback on Chelsea boots benefitting from boot trees vs. just shoe trees (having or missing an extension beyond the ankle).

I order a pair of brown loafers on black Friday and received them from Bridlen some time last month. However, there was a stitching issue and so they just got started on making me a new pair that I received those last week. I’ve been breaking them in by wearing them around the house the last few days. They’re very sleek and comfortable. I’ve posted a few photos that I took after taking them off tonight. I’ve only been wearing them inside, but from having them in hand, and how my customer service experience went (they took care of it) I would recommend looking at them if you’re in the market/mood for new shoes.

As an injury on one of my feet found me visiting a podiatrist regularly for the past few months, even when wearing a special boot on one foot, I would remove my other shoe so that the bottoms of my other shoe wasn’t in his face. This found me without a shoehorn when needed to put them back on. I am here to attest to the suggestion on Kirby Allison’s channel: use a credit card (or similar plastic card already in your wallet). It works wonderfully. Obviously you need to use a bit of care, but I barely even thought about it the last time I used this approach. Which credit card you use as a tool might be a chance to abreact to how that company treats you… And sorry, Apple Pay won’t work here 😀