Slip-on shoes, £385, SlowearToday, they might have garnered a sheen of respectability thanks to various cult fashion collaborations, but activewear shoes with nods to mountaineering, and orthopedic sandals last seen during a Duke of Edinburgh award seem to proliferate on men in spring.
Raggedy boat shoes are also particularly problematic; the podal equivalent of red trousers, they nod to preppy but look painfully braying alongside the ubiquitous bright chinos in a Fulham pub garden.
So what’s the solution? Rugged footwear brand Timberland has teamed up with cool NY brand Aime Leon Dore for a new range of chunkier-soled boat shoes that look more urbane, for an update on a tired old familiar.
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