Are there any? I'm curious. I have a lot of great shoes that I once wore with suits. Now that dress codes have relaxed, I mostly wear chinos or khaki in traditional shades of khaki, British tan, stone, olive or taupe and very rarely...navy. I usually wear penny loafers or something casual like chukkas. But after seeing Uncle Mac wearing his many different styles of cordovans with khakis...I'm rethinking. Yesterday, I even wore a pair of burgandy Park Avenues with my cuffed khakis and navy blazer. I thought they looked fine. What is the consensus out there? Btw...anyone wear black shoes with khakis?
What shoes would you not wear with Khakis?
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Are there any? I'm curious. I have a lot of great shoes that I once wore with suits. Now that dress codes have relaxed, I mostly wear chinos or khaki in traditional shades of khaki, British tan, stone, olive or taupe and very rarely...navy. I usually wear penny loafers or something casual like chukkas. But after seeing Uncle Mac wearing his many different styles of cordovans with khakis...I'm rethinking. Yesterday, I even wore a pair of burgandy Park Avenues with my cuffed khakis and navy blazer. I thought they looked fine. What is the consensus out there? Btw...anyone wear black shoes with khakis?
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Black shoes. Exactly. Assuming we're confining the inquiry to dress/dress casual, I'd say that nearly any style in any shade of brown or ox blood would be fine, but NEVER black. Every time I see black shoes worn with khakis or anything remotely khaki colored it jumps out like few sartorial infractions do.
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Depending on how much you want to dress up those chinos, it seems anything short of patent leather could work, given the right circumstances. In answer to your question regarding the wear of black shoes with khakis, I have worn black shoes/RM Williams boots with navy chinos.
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To me khakis demand a casual shoe. I don't like any shoe more formal than maybe a plain toe blucher with them. Cap toes and the like, no way. I only wear black shoes with khakis when I'm on Uncle Sam's payroll. It's out of my hands at that point.
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I have some black loafers I wear with khakis. I understand the objections and that I am probably in the minority on the issue. I also agree with Naval Gent on the formality issue. Captoes just do not look good with khakis. I worked with someone who was found of the combo and it just does not look good.
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Black shoes.
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Show us a picture of the ensemble and lets see if you did get away with it. You may have pulled it off for all we know.
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even patent leather...
And if done by a guy with some daring and panache and in the right circumstance -- think Tom Ford -- even patent leather might be fine.
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I've been trying to picture how my brown/white spectators would look with tan khakis, and for the life of me I can't picture an ensemble where they might look nice. Maybe with a tan/white seersucker sport coat? I don't know, I'll say spectators wouldn't look good (and I agree with the post about black)
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I don't care for black blucher caps, PTBs or NSTs at all, but I wouldn't automatically eliminate anything else. Bal captoes in black are sort of pushing it, but I've worn merlots and and walnuts and liked the look: the color takes the dress edge off the style.
Depends a lot on the rest of the outfit.
I lack the courage for spectators
Depends a lot on the rest of the outfit.
I lack the courage for spectators
Funny how Khakis were of military origin and all they wore were black shoes. I'll admit brown looks better but I wouldn't say never black.
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As above, I never wear the black shoes......
I wear Black Shoes with British Tan or slight variations thereof. I try to stay away from Black with Khaki unless it's raining and I need a rubber soled shoe. Just don't have anything in Brown or Burgundy at the moment. Knowing the rule, I will sometimes wear a different color pants (instead of khaki) when it's raining to keep with the rule.
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You are correct, sir.
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Well before military shoes were issued as black only-- there were the "Brown Shoe Days". When I joined the Air Force during the mid 70's there were still some old pre Air Force "Army Air Forcre" guys who had been in since post War II or Korea and they recalled fondly the days when the standard issue was brown shoes.
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Here's a picture from Life Magazine Archive 1941: Caption "Us Army Uniforms
US Army officer's regulation shoes and socks."
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+1. The habit of wearing "dress" shoes with khakis and other casual clothing just looks wrong. It may have started as a Left Coast fashion, but we all know what we think of fashion. Once past the age of 18 when I could afford to own more than two pair of shoes, I learned to differentiate more formal and casual styles.
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