Pluggers by Rick McKee for June 19, 2023

Eh me just has me bear feets.

I think them being white gets you 80% of the way there, unless you’re in close proximity to a tennis court.

I have two pair saved for formal occasions.

Problem for me is that thing called a suit ;-)

Have casual dress shoes. Which I never match with suits. Although, I have two tone spectator shoes. Which would serve. No longer produced.

In summer, can you wear leather sandals with a suit?

How about dress ring boots??

When I was in HS I liked to go “casual” by wearing jeans and sneakers with my blazer; now “dress up” is blazer & jeans + loafers (tie optional).

Q: why was the baby shoe crying?

A: because he found out his mother was a sneaker and his father was a loafer.

Another failure! I don’t have any sneakers.

Not just pluggers. My nephews’ prom picture showed twelve couples — all the young women wore beautiful, long dresses and heels [not stiletto] and all the young men wore slick tuxedos and sneakers. I believe Converse was the more popular brand. Gradually, people are learning that foot comfort is far more important than foot fashion.

I am SOOO a plugger!!! Proud of it, too :) Wore sneakers at my own wedding.

I don’t have “formal” sneakers, but my dress shoes are a comfy pair of flats.

Only time I have worn ‘sneakers’ was in ‘gym class’ in high school ! ! !

Give him a long coat and he’d be Doctor Who

When sandals are your daily footwear, of course, you have dress sneakers. :)

Husband doesn’t understand when I say don’t wear your go to town shoes at home. If you wear them out at home, they are no longer good shoes.

Closest things I have to formal shoes are Nike “Referee” shoes, a pair of black Keen Truckee shoes, dark blue Keen Versatrails and a pair of black Versatrails. I gave away my suits and ties when I hung up my shingle. I think the pictured plugger has one of my old ties.

All I have anymore is two pair of sneakers. One pair for the shop and one pair when I go out, even to funerals.

Worn leather boots my whole life, if I’m not in boots I’m in crocs and I’m pottering around the apartment somewhere haha.

Or in this Plugger’s case, dress (cheap knockoff) Crocs – sneakers squish my toes together, & I hate that! #SquareFeet #DiabeticFeet

Those bright white sneakers can really draw attention away from even the best suit/outfit.

Like in OG Starsky and Hutch. Q-“Why is your partner wearing red sneakers with his tux?” A=“Because the blue ones are in the wash.”

I have black DVS shoes with stone-gray “saddles” that I at times wear with black slacks and a stone-gray necktie. So I guess I’m a plugger.

Personally, I think the guy who invented the tie was a bigger jerk. Oh yeah, let me wear a noose around my neck for hours at a time. No thank you.

Love the ‘too long’ tie, too… LOL

My husband will get dressed in 18th century reproduction clothing – breeches, long stockings (socks) to his thighs, huge big shirt, long white piece of cloth wrapped around his neck, waistcoat (vest) and coat (suit jacket equivalent), and tri-corner hat for fun at reenactments, but on the EXTREMELY rare occasions that he should wear a jacket and tie – he will do anything to avoid doing so.

(And he has me in the women’s clothing of the period also – including a set of stays, the only garment other than our hats that I could not sew for us and we had to have custom made. And yes, other than hats, stays and stockings I made all of our other clothing for the hobby.)

Practical, yet fashionable.