# Tell me about your shoes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 22, 2001, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-shoes/77556 "2001-08-22T15:41:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 71
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2001, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-shoes/77556/71 "2001-08-23T11:12:43Z")
Man, some people own lotsa shoes. I am proud to say that I went to Europe for a month with one pair of shoes. The ones I’m wearing right now, as a matter of fact. They are oxblood Doc Martens, with a funky dress-shoe design. Tres cool. Suitable for hiking in the Alps, biking across the Netherlands, or dancing in Paris. My other shoes are black, oily suede steel caps. I wear those while biking because the steel shank offers great, solid biking support, and they look good with a suit. I also have sandals which I wear to the beach (and that’s _all_ I wear at the beach 🙂 ), running shoes, squash court shoes. I own 2 pairs of shoes that I don’t wear much. Black wingtips (real nice, but I haven’t broken them in yet, and it may be several years at the rate I’m going), and my shoes with the wafer-thin sole. Those kick ass on the dance floor. I also own winter boots, but those are a leftover from my Montreal days. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-shoes/77556)._