I’m a fan of footwear, and fashion in general. I have fairly standard tastes typically, but the odd thing slips through that might be a touch different, like the Keep shoes I talked about earlier this year.
I’ve been on the lookout for some new casual kicks for weekend duties for a couple of months, and was seemingly set on the Keep Guerra, which is actually a woman’s shoe. Women design some amazing clothing, and footwear is no exception. Men’s footwear is a touch staid and boring. Anyway, I digress, as usual.
So I was sitting in class on a Friday evening, pretending to do work before I went out for dinner with my friend Monique. I looked down at my tired old DC’s (not really that tired, I wash my shoes weekly, and at 18 months old, look about 6 months old) and I realised that they just were not going to cut it for a dinner date with a beautiful woman!
I quickly made may way into the city and popped into Cheapskates, in the usually-vain hope they’d have something unique and interesting. I perused the sale stock, as I often find that it’s the stuff no one else likes that usually looks amazing once on a human being. Nothing caught my eye and I waltzed over to the normal racks. Almost immediately the Lakai Telford’s had me. I’ve owned 2 pairs of these shoes before, albeit in the “Royal Family” orange-green-black colourway and the “Where the Wild Things Are” purple-black colourway, and I can honestly say they are the best shoe I have ever had the luck of wrapping around my doots.
I opted for the simple and clean black-white colour way, although I flirted with the desert sand-esque model. These shoes are Lakai’s most popular shoes of all-time, and it make sense why. They have great balanced proportions, with the ankle finishing at a height proportionate to the toe/lace. Compared to, say, the Supra Skytop, they are balanced and handsome. Patterning is subtle, the comfort is unrivalled and the look is spot-on for what I like.
