I’ve noticed for quite some time that the inside heel corner of my dress shoes is trimmed off at 45 degrees to each plane of the heel surface.
Why? And why only the inside corner and not the outside?
I must know.
I believe - and can’t imagine the search terms to find a cite - that it’s to reduce the chances that the heel of one foot with be caught in the pant’s cuff of opposite leg.
Dunno bit I’m glad they do. I think it is to prevent that sharp corner from scratching the inside of the other shoe. It also helps when you wear cuffed pants as the shoes with the cut-corner don’t seem to snag on the cuff as easliy as the un-cut* heels.
*Someone will be along to make a circumcision joke shortly.
This place rocks. Hard.
Looking down on pair of $115 dollar tassle loafers muttering “goddamn non-heel-corner-cutting-off bastards.”
I thought this was a thread about Payless Shoes.
Papermache Prince is correct, of course. (To be precise, he’s not talking cobblers. :p)
This practical feature is called the “businessman’s cut,” and is not to be confused with dorky hair like mine.