Guy Day Friday: 24 (with apologies to Jack Bauer)

It's been a rather lackluster week in the world of men's clogs. So and so released an open backed style in navy. Whatchamacallit increased their heel height from 2-1/8" to 2-1/4". And those other guys changed their straps from being fastened with three staples to only two. Like I said, not a lot going on. So I'm going to dig into the collection of found photos that regular reader Bill Cooley sent me a couple of months back. He writes,

Most of these are from male runway models in shows around the world; some are from web catalogues from Europe. Hope you like 'em.

 

Now, if some of you lads prefer your clogs with a little more machismo, consider this clipping from the snippets of English clog history that a fellow named Chris Brady has posted on his website. Apparently in Lancashire in the 19th century and the early 20th, wood soled shoes were used for a number of things: working, dancing, and settling disputes.

Up and Down Fighting

Clog fighting, locally called 'purring' was a means of settling disputes. Both the fighting and the betting among spectators was illegal.

"It is all up and down fighting here. They fought quite naked, excepting their clogs. When one has the other down on the ground he first endeavours to choke him by squeezing his throat, then he kicks him on the head with his clogs. Sometimes they are very severely injured."

I'm thinking no one sniggered at those men in their clogs.

 

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[On my feet as I blog:  another day in my funkis sandal clogs. Which reminds me, I have a great funkis customer service story to tell. Stay tuned.]

 

 

Comments

[Evan]

I is great to see clogs on men at the runway. It is a good start. I like a lot of the styles but I am not sure about the socks in the shorts pics. Socks are okay (although the would look better with bare feet) but, the strips have something to be desired. May be if you are wearing the thigh high boots from Matt Paul then the socks would be okay.

[Matt Paul]

Hi Evan!
I TOTALLY AGGREE!
That is the Problem with white socks with Stripes.
They just look strange unless your playing Basketball or Track or Etc... with shorts!
So my answer is always either go barefoot or the other extreme and wear totally CRAZY Radical Socks! :}
BTW Lindsey also has a pair of those JC Ivka Thigh High Boots as well! :]

And one last bite of news, The Jeffrey Campbell Foxy Fab Stars Stripes that I wanted for the 4th of July I got yesterday and returned Yesterday! :(
http://www.solestruck.com/jeffrey-campbell-foxy-fab-stars-and-stripes/index.html#
They were way to big, I would say the 11 was at least a size 12. But the deal breaker for me was they were totally faded out in the colors as compared to the Pictures at Solestruck!