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WHICH Brown Shoe?
- Thread starter nittany03
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I swear by the folks at Bonita Shoe Repair on Bonita Road…east of the 805 exit. Probably not convenient for you…but I'm sure there are others more local to you.
Hmm, not exactly. My bates lites after a grand total of maybe 10 to 12 times wearing.
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CubDriver
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I haven't built up the courage yet to ask someone here at Whiting, but what are the leather soled brown boots I see some random guys wearing? They seem so much more maleable and about 10 pounds lighter than the Belleville clunkers we were issued. For a guy who likes to drive/fly barefoot, the Bellevilles are just too much boot.
Find your balls and ask someone, won't be the hardest question you have to ask as an Officer...I'd guess Redwings, but I just use the "clunkers" myself.
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^^^ Yeah. If you can't do that…we probably can't trust you to keep offensive material out of your squadron spaces…just to stuff a couple of disparate threads into the Ready Room blender…
I had my brown Bates re-soled in Bahrain for like 20 BD. Totally worth it, since he shined the shoes on his bench grinder'looking thing for free and I haven't had to do a thing to them since.
What I really want to know is where the hell can I get a pair of white leather shoes with white soles that don't say "Bates Lites" on them. 2-3 years (that amounts to 3-4 wearings, tops) and those soles are toast. Crumbly, nasty toast.
What I really want to know is where the hell can I get a pair of white leather shoes with white soles that don't say "Bates Lites" on them. 2-3 years (that amounts to 3-4 wearings, tops) and those soles are toast. Crumbly, nasty toast.
It appears to be a very small "niche market" for which Bates is the only supplier. I suppose the next time you visit your family boot-maker in London you could order something custom…but even the Royal Navy gets by with "non-white" soles. Probably explains a lot...
I preferred the white shoes I bought at the MCX. Much better quality and they don't fall apart.
And they had white soles?
That seems to be the long pole in the tent on all the hard-soled white oxfords I can find. . .
That seems to be the long pole in the tent on all the hard-soled white oxfords I can find. . .
I pretty much just end up buying new white bates about every other time I wear them. Have probably only worn whites about 3 times in 5+ years on active duty. They are like $85 or so......not really a crippling investment for the occasional CoC or whites inspection of your Sailors as a Divo. To be honest, none of my dress uniforms ever wore LTJG insignia......went straight from commissioning as an ENS to never wearing them again until I was an LT (which was basically when I got to the fleet), maybe with exception of summer whites which just involved shoulder boards.
$85 for a pair of shoes I will wear once or twice, tops, while not cripplingly expensive, is still ridiculous.
That kind of attitude is why we get billion dollar, "gold-plated" ships and airplanes that have less functionality than the platforms they replace.
That kind of attitude is why we get billion dollar, "gold-plated" ships and airplanes that have less functionality than the platforms they replace.
$85 for a pair of shoes I will wear once or twice, tops, while not cripplingly expensive, is still ridiculous.
That kind of attitude is why we get billion dollar, "gold-plated" ships and airplanes that have less functionality than the platforms they replace.
Fair enough. I won't argue that they are crap, but then again, they are a little bit like wearing a wedding dress to a slaughter house. There is simply no way to keep them clean and still black out in the toilet during a dining out after 400 shots and 1 million irish car bombs in a pool of your own vomit
Krylon is your friend. I recommend "Gloss White" although "Semi-Gloss" is a little less showy.
I have no solution (obviously. . .) for keeping the soles from crumbling.
I have no solution (obviously. . .) for keeping the soles from crumbling.