Shoes show that you understand the concept of completeness. Any clown can buy an expensive suit and a silk tie. But a man’s ability to pick the right shoes to match his suit shows he isn’t a peasant, and knows what he’s doing. – Momo

Women will look at your shoes automatically because they are wired that way – we look at the rack, they look at our shoes, it’s just a fact. Having grown used to hearing the words “oooh her shoes are cute!” from the woman, I realize that women keep their eyes south when checking out our gear. It comes from the attention they pay to their own shoes, having tons of them, always looking for them and seeing who is wearing them. It’s like being a logo designer, you do it so much that you can’t eat, drink or drive by anything that has a logo without doing a mental critique automatically. Any profession or focus is like this, just ask a martial artist what he/she thinks about a kung fu movie. You will get bored hearing them talk about the flaws in their technique, the mastery of this, and that. Too much information about something you (who aren’t THAT into it) see as trivial. This is how women are about the shoes on your feet my boys.

So to break out the old scuffed up kicks when you leave the house will only negate that clean suit and expensive tie that you took time to purchase. This will render your attempt to impress at that business meeting or date useless. As a victim of not giving a crap about shoes, I have received my share or ridicule and neglect from women in my life based on this. If you have the scratch my fellow men, keep your kicks clean, shiny, and new. Pretend the shoes are panty magnets that will pull them south the nicer they are and keep up on your kick game. You don’t have to be a super fashionista, metro, or shoe fetishist to buy nice shoes. Take a woman with you, or if you are confident enough, buy what you like but keep them in good shape.

Shoes in Business

There is a reason why you dress up for an interview or business meeting. It is to convey the illusion that while at home you may be a sloppy, chaotic, dirt lover, when it comes to business you are sharp, put together and professional. Everybody knows it’s bullshit, especially when you start working and people realize that you lack the skills and order to balance a checkbook much less handle the numbers being asked of you by others. The thing about the dress however is that the illusion will always be present that a man who is well put together, knows his stuff. It is felt that men of influence, men of honor and men of wealth, know how to dress the part. This is all crap in reality, given that most men of money are not trying to dress like Michael Corleone or Deon Sanders. They don’t have to, but if your broke ass goes into a room to get hired or to talk business with peers and you have some busted shoes on, you will lose before you even open your mouth.

So if you’re in the store shopping for clothes and you think it better to skip a nice new pair of kicks in lieu of some ugly pin-stripes sports coat, think again. Step your kicks up and it will in turn step your game up.

Written by Greg Dragon on Monday, April 5, 2010 

Filed under A Touch of Class, Money and Business, Personal Appearance
Tagged with business, confidence, fashion, interview, money