Perfect Style On The Road 3 Favorite Travel Shoe Styles For Men
[0:00:00] Today, I want to talk about three travel shoe
options.
So for me when I’m traveling, I’m wearing business attire.
I need to look good.
I want a travel shoe that I can go in and out of the airport and be able to slip through
security very quickly.
So all the options I’m going to show you these are shoes that have no laces and to
me that is key.
I want a shoe that is just not going to slow me down where I got to spend time lacing down
then lacing back up and yeah.
To me that is the biggest thing.
But when I show up if I got to go straight to a meeting I want a shoe that would still
look great with casual suit with maybe even a formal suit, maybe something that would
look great with my odd trousers, my sports jacket, or it’s just going to make my outfit
pop.
Each of these I think has their own unique style and starting off you’ve probably seen
I’ve got the Chelsea boot.
The Chelsea boot this is a classic, became popular in the 1960 with musicians out of
England.
We saw the Beatles.
We saw the Rolling Stones.
If you have a Chelsea boot I think you’ll agree this is one of the most versatile shoes
that you’re going to see out there.
So the Chelsea boot the overall design and the style of it is going to be what you see
right here.
It’s not going to have any laces.
It’s going to usually have elastic on the side.
Some of you will actually see you’re going to have a zipper on the inside.
But what you’re looking for is something that has a toe design that you’re looking
for.
You’re going to see them with a little bit of basically a cut toe.
You’re also going to see them with sometimes a really big square toe.
You want to avoid that.
You’re going to see them with rounded off toe.
Whatever is your particular choice the style you want to go for except for that big heavy
square toe, don’t go with that.
Now let’s talk about the hell.
If you see a Chelsea out there with a really – we’re talking 1 inch to 1-1/2 inch heel.
Can you guys tell I’m shooting on location?
I’m just getting blown up by the light here.
But guys I’m actually in New York City.
I’m in at Paul Evans.
My friend Evan owns the shop.
He’s letting me use all of his shoes as props.
So if you want to check out, you like any of the shoes you see in today’s video make
sure to go check out Paul Evans.
I’m linking to him down in the description.
I’ve got a discount code for you RMRS 100.
That’s $100 off guys and you can go use this.
Use it or lose it.
Cause it’s not going to be around too much longer and it will disappear and his shoes
are just a great deal.
They’re all Blake stitch.
That’s how we get that nice little elegant look around here and still a great construction.
Now the thing with all the shoes I’m going to show you is that you will see in getting
to the construction a leather sole.
Leather soles are great in terms of showing the quality of the shoe, the material used.
The problem with leather sole is they take a while to be able to get some traction and
they can lose that traction.
So do take them to cobbler.
If you travel a lot, you want to get a rubber strip or you want to get a rubber sole put
on the base right in here.
You don’t have to have an entirely new sole put on it.
You can just simply have an overlay put on.
What that does is its going to give you a lot more traction, enables you to don’t
go slipping and sliding through the airport cause that is something I do not want to have
happened to you when you’re traveling.
So the Chelsea boot right there my no.
1 choice.
I just love it because it’s so simple, so elegant looking.
You can dress it up.
Dress it down.
You can go in black if black is your shoe color.
I like oxblood.
I like dark brown
Now speaking of oxblood and my other travel shoe, the shoes I’m wearing right now when
I travel to New York with are actually double monk straps.
This is a modern classic.
Taking off the single monk but the double monk what you’re going to notice again is
the overall beautiful elegant design.
Many people are going to mistake it just a classic dress shoe.
So you could actually wear this with a suit.
You could dress it up or dress down.
I’ve worn this with jeans.
But it is something that because of just the simplicity of the overall built the leather
sole which I talk about.
Overall I just look at this easily you can go with a dark color, black.
You can go with dark brown.
You can go with burgundy, oxblood like I talked about.
You can even possibly bring in a suede.
Although, suede isn’t going to be as versatile and I would usually go for a darker color
on my first pair of double monks.
But again it’s slipping on, slipping off, being able to slip through security, not have
an issue.
Really quick tip by the way is shoe horns.
The Chelsea won’t have this issue.
But this shoe right here you don’t want to be pushing on the back on the heel with
your heel.
So what you want to do is take your belt and actually put your belt right in here and you’re
going to use that as a shoehorn.
A shoehorn is a device.
Do I have it handy?
No.
All right, wait a minute.
One may magically appear in my hand.
Watch this.
So magically did you see that?
It’s amazing how it happens.
So a shoehorn wouldn’t allow you right here.
But since you’re going to carry this with you through security just simply use the end
of your belt and you’ll be able to get your heel back in there and not damage the back
of the shoe.
The last shoe I want to talk to you guys about is going to be the penny loafers.
The penny loafer is a great shoe in the sense that its classic, it’s conservative.
It’s something that you definitely can dress down.
You can wear this with even lighter color jeans if you so chose.
You can wear this with shorts.
You’re traveling in short.
We’re not talking cargo shorts here.
Although, you probably could pull it off, some of you.
[0:05:03] But I would say go for a leaner cleaner short
design which is one that’s just simply not going to have the pockets on the side is going
to possibly be just a couple of inches above the knee.
But the penny loafer classic shoe.
Avoid in black in my opinion.
Yes.
I know some of you guys are going to do it anyway.
Black is your color.
But I feel the penny loafer is a more casual shoe.
It’s definitely not something you want to wear with a formal suit.
You can pull it off in the summer time with a casual suit.
But if you’re ever doing that, do not go sockless guys.
You don’t want to have the moisture from your sweaty feet basically destroying the
inside of a quality shoe.
Everything you see in here is leather.
Leather will absorbs that wetness and what it’s going to do is it expands a bit but
it never goes back exactly to its original shape.
If you ever do get any of these shoes wet what you want to do is let them dry in a cool
dry place.
You don’t want to put them next to a heater.
Don’t put them next to a fire.
That will destroy.
That will crack the leather.
That’s it guys.
So when you’re traveling I know you want to carry as little as you need to and at the
same time you want something that’s versatile.
So all three of this travel shoe I think fit the bill.
That’s it guys.
Take care.
I will see you in the next video.
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