Dudes I need new shoes. My uncle just gave me a metric fuckton of new classy shoes for business wear and stuff but I need some new casual wear stuff. I don't do shoe shopping very often and usually I go to like payless and get some cheap ones that last a couple years. I thought about doing something different this time. I thought about getting these:
But I also like having comfort so I take it I need to get some insoles for these right?
I wear those. I typically have only one pair of shoes that I wear until they fall apart, so I've had my chucks since summer of '09, and they're still going strong.
Starting to look kinda rugged, though.
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I wear those. I typically have only one pair of shoes that I wear until they fall apart, so I've had my chucks since summer of '09, and they're still going strong.
Starting to look kinda rugged, though.
Do you wear insoles with them? Last time I looked at them my friend kinda freaked me out going on and on about the intricacies of purchasing a pair of chucks. Saying how to get them a size bigger and get like these super expensive insoles and shit and then I decided to go to payless instead.
I wear those. I typically have only one pair of shoes that I wear until they fall apart, so I've had my chucks since summer of '09, and they're still going strong.
Starting to look kinda rugged, though.
Do you wear insoles with them? Last time I looked at them my friend kinda freaked me out going on and on about the intricacies of purchasing a pair of chucks. Saying how to get them a size bigger and get like these super expensive insoles and shit and then I decided to go to payless instead.
I had a pair of Jack Purcells, which are very similar to Chucks. They came with a really comfy insole and were my favorite shoes ever. I am sort of hard on shoes for some reason, despite being thin for my height. Maybe I drag my feet or something, I don't know. Anyway, I walked about five miles a day in them, and wore them pretty much every day. They didn't last a year. Things came unglued everywhere and the soles wore really thin.
I don't think I would buy them again. They normally sell for about $60. I expected them to be more durable.
apologies, but this is a pet-peeve. the "ladies button to the left" thing due to maidservants, that's partially lore; men were just as liable to have dressers, if not moreso, given the difficulty of getting into armor without some sort of squire. and the personal attendant who can't figure out a buttonhole on the 'wrong' side probably ain't getting paid. there's no one agreed-upon reason for the placement of buttonholes, really. internet people have opinions:
"It actually dates from victorian times, when it was seen as unseemly and unwomanly for women to be wearing clothing that was too much like a man's. Also because that is when buttoned clothing for women really came to the fore in the guise of 'tailor-mades' (i.e. suits), and garments that reflected military clothing. [...] However, on clothing prior to the Victorian period (as evidenced by many, many extant garments both in museums and in private collections) there was no hard and fast rule for men's clothing or women's clothing. It wasn't unheard of among poorer people for the buttonholes to be sewn up, and the buttons sewn to the other side of the garment to increase its life."
"[...] for the most part, women's clothing did not button in the front but in the back (and it made it handy for the noble women's servant girl to get them dressed.) This also explains the men's servants buttoning them from the front, and the need to make it easier for them as well."
"Traditionally, men's garments button left over right. However, at one time, both men’s and women’s wear had buttons on the left. During the Middle Ages, men’s buttons were changed to the right to enable one to open the coat with the left hand and draw their sword from across the left hip with the right hand."
re: Civil War reenactment costumes: "For middle and upper classes the modern rules apply (ie different for men and women). for lower classes it's possible that they may have carried on the older tradition of switching sides to increase the life of the garment."
"One theory is that the gender closings were only standardized as ready-to-wear became widespread, and that was later in the 19th century."
so, there are various explanations.
it was due to the majority of self-dressers being right-handed, and
liable to draw a sword across the hip, or
breastfeeding or carrying a baby on the left, leading another with the right hand (what?),
it was easier for the tailor (and conveniently, the maid and valet) to do up the buttons,
women's fashion differentiated from men's due to considerations of style or propriety,
there was no rigid bespoke tradition, with the placement varying throughout the garment's life in order to prolong its use,
the emergence of ready-to-wear as a phenomenon brought manufacturing standardization and the segmentation of markets.
i suspect it's some combination of 2-5, with heavier emphasis on the latter two. i wish i could find this article: Lopez, Judith. “Buttonholes: Some Differences in Gender-Related Front Closures.” Dress, Vol. 20 (1993): 74-78.
and for those not interested in the wall of text, or alternately, as a reward for wading through, a pretty:
maybe i'm just old, but most of the fascinators/people wearing them i run across are ostentatious or overly twee. but when it works, da-yum. i admiretheseetsy shops.
this site is fun in a paper doll/collage sort of way.
I wear those. I typically have only one pair of shoes that I wear until they fall apart, so I've had my chucks since summer of '09, and they're still going strong.
Starting to look kinda rugged, though.
Do you wear insoles with them? Last time I looked at them my friend kinda freaked me out going on and on about the intricacies of purchasing a pair of chucks. Saying how to get them a size bigger and get like these super expensive insoles and shit and then I decided to go to payless instead.
If you buy insoles for your Chucks you're doing it wrong
this has been my only really significant fashion purchase lately
it fits so well. one of those times you try something on just for the hell of trying something on you don't intend to buy but it was just too damned good
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I wear those. I typically have only one pair of shoes that I wear until they fall apart, so I've had my chucks since summer of '09, and they're still going strong.
Starting to look kinda rugged, though.
Do you wear insoles with them? Last time I looked at them my friend kinda freaked me out going on and on about the intricacies of purchasing a pair of chucks. Saying how to get them a size bigger and get like these super expensive insoles and shit and then I decided to go to payless instead.
If you buy insoles for your Chucks you're doing it wrong
This is the correct reply, and I whole-heartedly endorse it.
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But I already have a winter coat that I got a year ago and is still in great condition.
Maybe I will win the lottery!
I would improve my odds by starting to play the lottery.
i love coats ;m;
I don't even like coats, and I have like 10
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i think my brain is trying to tell me something(!!)
but haha too bad, brain. try again when i have, like, any money
Anyone know how to get the smell of dog pee out of things?
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
PS4:MrZoompants
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
Should be the same for dogs...?
that should work.
Hopefully my sleeve will be dry before I go outside today
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
and a Windbreaker by Armada.
so i have a winter coat, and a spring-fall coat.
Used to have a nice wool jacket for fancy pageant walkin but I got fatter and now it is just an expensive thing in the closet
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
PS4:MrZoompants
But I also like having comfort so I take it I need to get some insoles for these right?
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Starting to look kinda rugged, though.
drycleaning
Do you wear insoles with them? Last time I looked at them my friend kinda freaked me out going on and on about the intricacies of purchasing a pair of chucks. Saying how to get them a size bigger and get like these super expensive insoles and shit and then I decided to go to payless instead.
hey satan...: thinkgeek amazon My post |
http://www.sugarsugar.com/
Huh! There are five in the UK and I am not tempted.
not even for Johnathan P. | $$$$$ ?
I have 6$'s in my name
man what they hell are they implying with this pic
that man's underwear is twice the size of that woman's torso
should could wear his undies like a cape
http://thehairpin.com/2011/02/the-best-of-sexual-harassment-stock-photography/
ahahahaha
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Perhaps Monday I will write up a quick something.
I had a pair of Jack Purcells, which are very similar to Chucks. They came with a really comfy insole and were my favorite shoes ever. I am sort of hard on shoes for some reason, despite being thin for my height. Maybe I drag my feet or something, I don't know. Anyway, I walked about five miles a day in them, and wore them pretty much every day. They didn't last a year. Things came unglued everywhere and the soles wore really thin.
I don't think I would buy them again. They normally sell for about $60. I expected them to be more durable.
"[...] for the most part, women's clothing did not button in the front but in the back (and it made it handy for the noble women's servant girl to get them dressed.) This also explains the men's servants buttoning them from the front, and the need to make it easier for them as well."
"Traditionally, men's garments button left over right. However, at one time, both men’s and women’s wear had buttons on the left. During the Middle Ages, men’s buttons were changed to the right to enable one to open the coat with the left hand and draw their sword from across the left hip with the right hand."
re: Civil War reenactment costumes: "For middle and upper classes the modern rules apply (ie different for men and women). for lower classes it's possible that they may have carried on the older tradition of switching sides to increase the life of the garment."
"One theory is that the gender closings were only standardized as ready-to-wear became widespread, and that was later in the 19th century."
so, there are various explanations.
i suspect it's some combination of 2-5, with heavier emphasis on the latter two. i wish i could find this article: Lopez, Judith. “Buttonholes: Some Differences in Gender-Related Front Closures.” Dress, Vol. 20 (1993): 74-78.
and for those not interested in the wall of text, or alternately, as a reward for wading through, a pretty: maybe i'm just old, but most of the fascinators/people wearing them i run across are ostentatious or overly twee. but when it works, da-yum. i admire these etsy shops.
this site is fun in a paper doll/collage sort of way.
If you buy insoles for your Chucks you're doing it wrong
it fits so well. one of those times you try something on just for the hell of trying something on you don't intend to buy but it was just too damned good
This is the correct reply, and I whole-heartedly endorse it.
makes for a fucking killer outfit but i had to return to goddamn ballsweating summer where all i can wear is hawaii shorts and thongs*
*not that kind. don't be vulgar.
seriously has this ever happened to anyone
random woman in a mink coat just grabbing your butt in the lunchroom