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Brown vs. black: the great debate
From: The Journal Record
Date: 19971107
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"Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide."
- Honore de Balzac, Treatise on the Elegant Life
A highly unscientific survey of men's feet while walking the bridges and tunnels downtown leads us to think most guys are either black shoe wearers or brown shoe wearers. What other choices are there? Well, believe it or not, there are beige shoes and navy shoes and even blue suede shoes (Just ask Elvis). But brown and black dominate by some 90 percent. One fashion expert says that guys who go for black leather -- shoes, that is -- tend to be more conservative, straight-laced, with an eye on ...
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