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Pointy shoes on men

  • 18-11-2014 05:14PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭


    What are people's opinions on pointed formal shoes for men. I bought a pair recently but my OH doesn't like them on me. Apparently, they don't look masculine!! I think they look smart and go well with slimmer fit dark trousers. While I don't see many guys wearing them, am I in the minority liking them?? :)

    The picture below is similarly pointed to the pair I bought although mine have a flatter heel. Mine had laces as well.

    http://www.shuperb.co.uk/images/products/1332781086-13581800.jpg


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,208 ✭✭✭dee_mc


    Wear them if you like them!
    I'm not a fan to be honest, I'm not sure what it is about them (although it's not a masculine v feminine thing for me) but I would be fairly strongly of the belief that if you like a particular style/garment/whatever, you should wear it and fek the begrudgers!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,612 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    I am not a fan of very pointy shoes but they have to be a bit pointy. I think round toed or square toed shoes feel extremely dated and clunky.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 753 ✭✭✭Semele


    I like them! I hate the look of square toed shoes on men- think it reminds me of the shoes boys in school had to wear...never been able to see them as stylish since!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭DonFred


    Big no no for men!! Go for a good pair of brogues.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭miezekatze


    I think if they're too pointy and you have big feet, they tend to look huge - like clown's shoes!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    DonFred wrote: »
    Big no no for men!! Go for a good pair of brogues.

    Some brogues can look awfully clunky.
    And some 'pointy' shoes look far too pointy.
    The blank shoe the OP attached has no detail and I wouldnt be a fan of it.
    Personally, I like an 'inbetween' shoe, that has the point, but the details (some anyway) of a brogue style.
    Like the below:
    HASU_28_RG_324.JPG


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,510 ✭✭✭DesperateDan


    I bought some online recently and they were way pointier than I was expecting...did not like :D

    These bad boys.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    I'm not a fan of pointy shoes in general, male or female. I wouldn't terribly like your shoes, but it's not a "masculine" thing. I just think pointy shoes look weird.

    However, if you like them, and you think they look good with an outfit, then wear them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 481 ✭✭Deenie123


    I think very round toes on men or women (except in ballet flats) or very square toes just don't look very elegant. If you want to get shoes with a suit I'd wear an elongated rounded or square toe. I've rarely seen pointy look good on a guy and personally I think they look a bit weird, very elfen. I'm kinda inclined to think they tend to look cheap and nasty, too. Gives off the impression of a red neck who got their annual scrub and put on "De Gud Suit" tbh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 161 ✭✭Freddie Mercurys Bolero


    Nope.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,834 ✭✭✭Useful.Idiot


    Defnitely nothing wrong with pointy shoes for men. The shoes linked in the OP are fine but maybe just a tad "too pointy" for my own tastes and I think pointier shoes lend better to a shade of brown as opposed to black.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,612 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    Yeah. While I like pointy shoes, I like the slightly elongated ones not extreme points (I have a feeling the op's shoes would be slightly too pointy for me but I can't tell from picture). But I do wonder where were people buying men's suit shoes that are not pointy the last few years. Everything of decent quality that is not plastic and made by Dunne's stores that I saw has a bit of a point.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 481 ✭✭Deenie123


    meeeeh wrote: »
    Yeah. While I like pointy shoes, I like the slightly elongated ones not extreme points (I have a feeling the op's shoes would be slightly too pointy for me but I can't tell from picture). But I do wonder where were people buying men's suit shoes that are not pointy the last few years. Everything of decent quality that is not plastic and made by Dunne's stores that I saw has a bit of a point.

    I've seen lots of pointy (yeuck), a bit of square (also yeuck) and predominantly tapered shoes. Tapered are where it's at.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,612 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    I saw mostly this style in smart shoes, especially Italian brands.

    http://www.spartoo.eu/mobile/Barker-DVORAK-x133099.php?anchor=1#haut_prodcard


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53 ✭✭EganTheMan


    Depends on your age group - what age group are you?

    i.e. OK on 20-35 i.e. suggest immaturity to conservative old me . . .

    Shoes are really, really important. The amount of men that I see letting down a beautiful suit with a terrible pair of shoes . . .

    I feel that shoes tell an awful lot about us . . .


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    Some brogues can look awfully clunky.
    And some 'pointy' shoes look far too pointy.
    The blank shoe the OP attached has no detail and I wouldnt be a fan of it.
    Personally, I like an 'inbetween' shoe, that has the point, but the details (some anyway) of a brogue style.
    Like the below:
    HASU_28_RG_324.JPG

    Jesus Christ what is this fascination blokes have with tan brogues?

    Brogues with jeans....ugh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 32,108 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    EganTheMan wrote: »
    Depends on your age group - what age group are you?

    i.e. OK on 20-35 i.e. suggest immaturity to conservative old me . . .

    Shoes are really, really important. The amount of men that I see letting down a beautiful suit with a terrible pair of shoes . . .

    I feel that shoes tell an awful lot about us . . .

    +1


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 180Bhoy


    Perri Winkle pickers we call them haha you can kill spiders in corners ;-)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 164 ✭✭mountsky


    Pointy shoes are a bit strange looking,something not right about them,I think they're amusing especially when certain people wear them,oh lord it's just gas


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 180Bhoy


    I've seen many an itinerant where them with a tracksuit pants


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,143 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    Really really not. Throw them out, or bring them back. Really. Seriously.

    Always go with the classic style of a rounded, flat toe. This style:

    9713055.jpg

    img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=68283327

    And if you are wearing formal shoes, for god's sake polish them. I see so many guys walking around, in suits, with shoes that scuffed and unpolished. The shoes are normally pointy as well, for what its worth! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,612 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    But these above are pointy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,143 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    meeeeh wrote: »
    But these above are pointy.

    No they aren't. They're round, but they aren't "pointy", like what the OP is on about. There's a big difference.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 481 ✭✭Deenie123


    No they aren't. They're round, but they aren't "pointy", like what the OP is on about. There's a big difference.

    They're tapered and elegant. What the OP is talking about is chavvy and best seen only on "The Accused".

    I'm sorry, but I find it hard to take someone seriously wearing pointy shoes.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


    I call them 'Airtricity' shoes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,143 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    Doom wrote: »
    I call them 'Airtricity' shoes

    Ha! Exactly. With an ill fitting silver / grey suit and spikey hair / weird fringe combo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    sansuiya_l2785-c-bk_2

    These are some weapons, you could do damage with them.


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