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  1. GroveRanger

    GroveRanger Well-Known Member

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    Are you a boot or shoe sort of chap?

    What do you usually spend on them and what was the most expensive pair you've bought?

    I am more of a boot person and for work I go for anything around the £50 mark or something a bit more up market in the sales.

    Most I ever spent was £300 on a pair of these bad boys

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    Most uncomfortable item of footwear I ever owned, utter waste of money.
     
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  2. Patience

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    Usually trainers, but for work it's a lovely pair of shoes. Most expensive trainers have been 150 quid, and for shoes for suits etc, it's been about the same.

    Only manual workers, poor people, and racists wear boots.
     
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  3. GroveRanger

    GroveRanger Well-Known Member

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    What about the highly fashionable Chukka boot? They are formal enough for work and look like shoes when worn with a pair of suit trousers.



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    They're more of a shoe hybrid. You're not kicking Leeroy's teeth down his throat wearing them, are you? Nor are you doing any bricklaying in them.

    They're for formal wear / ****ters / looking like a prick who is in to Kasabian (Pud has 7 pairs).

    Ergo, my original comment still stands.

    STAND FREE
     
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    GroveRanger Well-Known Member

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    Mostly agree apart from liking Kasabian, which I don't.
     
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  7. Mick O'Toon

    Mick O'Toon Well-Known Member

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    Boots and runners most of the time,shoes for funerals,weddings or court.
     
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    Girvan Loyal 1690 Nobody's safe now

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    This sod has moccasins and he's still the top man

    <rofl>
     
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  9. DevAdvocate

    DevAdvocate Gigging bassist

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    Just bought a pair identical to those for £20 reduced from £50. The only black footwear I own, all my other shoes/boots are brown.
     
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    Girvan Loyal 1690 Nobody's safe now

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    I was stoatin aboot wae a pair a wallabees on on Friday night and I was still the coolest **** on the south side. This is factual.
     
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    Girvan Loyal 1690 Nobody's safe now

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    I've also got clarks desert boots.

    Ultimate cool dude

    <-------
     
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  12. DevAdvocate

    DevAdvocate Gigging bassist

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    Australian footwear?
     
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    brown brogues when attending the old lady

    nike t90s in my free time
     
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  14. DevAdvocate

    DevAdvocate Gigging bassist

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    I have Clarks Originals dessies.
     
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    Girvan Loyal 1690 Nobody's safe now

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    T90s <laugh>

    Topper scan!
     
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  16. Girvan Loyal 1690

    Girvan Loyal 1690 Nobody's safe now

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    Aw ffs. <binned>
     
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  17. Mick O'Toon

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    Do you wear a blue suit with those?
     
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  18. Patience

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    <laugh> Classics

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  19. DevAdvocate

    DevAdvocate Gigging bassist

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    On occasion, mostly my light brown suit tho.

    I like brown.
     
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    ^^^ Junkie
     
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