And 12 hours or so isn’t enough time for them to dry?
mmm
Your call, but remember: those shoes, in the style you like, are available and in stock now (the laces too).
Fast forward 1-2 years from now, who knows? Look, you know what you like, you know your style and you know you like these. Two pair to alternate every third day and two pair left in boxes in your closet to replace them when they wear out.
Its a plan that would last you past the end of the next decade.
It might be hard to the same style shoes , I have a pairs of hiking boots I really like and I tried to buy the same style 3 years later and I couldn’t the style was difference and I didn’t like it. I like your shoes .
Maybe twelve hours would be enough time for the shoes to dry. I don’t know, as I’ve never done a scientific analysis. I don’t know if anyone has. Maybe this is just a myth. Maybe this is something invented by some clever guy at a shoe company to sell more product. But it is standard advice. (If you don’t believe me, do a Google search.)
But it seems to me that even if it’s not necessary to let the shoes dry out, they will last longer, simply because they are being worn less frequently. Personally, I alternate between brown shoes and black shoes.
Nope.
I concur. Get them now.
The limiting factor on my shoes is the sole – specifically the part right under the ball of the foot. Why would sole wear be delayed if I had alternated pairs? If sole wear is determined by how often they contact pavement, then it wouldn’t matter how many I alternated. Assuming I do 10,000 steps per day, and wear them to work 200 days per year, then their lifetime of 2 years suggests that 2 years * 200 days * 10,000 steps = 4 million steps per pair of shoes… 2 pairs would just double that to 4 years/8 million steps and so on, which wouldn’t add any value.
I don’t think you should buy shoes in advance like this. Your tastes may change, or your needs may change. Perhaps next year your job requires something more formal.
“Sweat” doesn’t just mean liquid - it’s also water vapor, which your feet are constantly producing. Even though you may not feel any wetness, your feet produce enough water vapor that the inner surface of your shoes are exposed to nearly 100% humidity.
Allen Edmonds makes a reasonably priced business casual / dress shoe. They will also recraft you shoe for around $100 once they start looking busted (replace the sole, condition the leather). Usually if they get to the point where they can’t recraft them, you’ll get a gift certificate for your next pair. I have something like six pair of oxfords in various colors.
The main difference between AE and shoes you can’t fix is that they have the crafted soles (as opposed to the rubber ones built into the shoe).
One thing no mentioned is you should get them shined every now and then. Pretty much any shoe repair shop or guy in the street with a shoeshine box will do it for $5 including tip. It helps protect the leather and makes them last longer.
Also don’t wear your shoes in crappy weather (or have a designated pair of crap shoes you don’t care about). The road salt is super-bad for them.
I’m wearing the bike-toe Fusions right now. (in the brown nubuck, not the shiny black)
On my last pair, the uppers wore out before the soles did; the polyurethane soles wear like iron on ECCO shoes.
Why not try an experiment?
Get your old pair resoled.
Wear them on alternative days.
After a fortnight you probably won’t care which pair you wear.
And you’ll get 2 more years from them and 4+ from the new ones.
Oops, sorry.
Did my research and actually looked at the OP’s photo. :eek:
That ain’t going to work.