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  • Gentlemen, Antonio here.

  • All right.

  • Quick question for you.

  • What are the most expensive shoes that you own?

  • Let me know down in the comments, I want to hear from you guys.

  • Now, believe it or not, I bet I can guess the most expensive shoes in your closet.

  • How can I know this?

  • Because, guys, it's easy.

  • The most expensive shoes you own are the ones that you never wear.

  • Make sense?

  • If you go out there and you buy $100 pair of shoes and you wear it once.

  • You go out there and you buy $350 pair of shoes and you wear them 350 times, guess what?

  • $100 per wear, a $1 per wear, which one was the better deal?

  • Gentlemen, shoes are one of those items that you want to get right because good shoes are

  • expensive, however if you get the right pair in the right order, you're going to get your

  • money's worth out of them especially if you take care of them.

  • In today's video, I've got five pairs of shoes I'm going to recommend you guys and the order

  • to purchase them.

  • We're talking about dress shoes here.

  • I support this with a great free e-book.

  • Go check it out, guys.

  • You can download it, it's absolutely free, 85 pages of solid information, Man's Ultimate

  • Guide to Dress Shoes.

  • Now, this is just going to be, you know, a little quick part of it, but the article that

  • supports it is in that free e-book.

  • And, really quick I've got about twelve samples here that I'm going to be running through

  • to give you guys an idea of the five shoes that you need to own and variations of each

  • of them because when it comes down to it, gentlemen, you need to make the right decisions

  • for your lifestyle, your professional need, your personal need, and your style wants.

  • So, those are things I'll going to go into this.

  • There isn't an exact right five pairs of shoes.

  • However, I want to get you thinking about that.

  • When you start to think about this and you pay a little bit more attention, you're going

  • to make sure you make your own smart purchasing decision.

  • All right?

  • Let's get into the first pair of shoes that you want to own.

  • We're talking about balmoral oxford, something that has closed lacing.

  • Now, this is a wholecut dress shoe, not technically in there, but I put it here because guess

  • what?

  • It's pretty much got the elegance simple look, but here it's going to be a more classic one

  • with the closed lacing system.

  • This one has cap toe, it's in dark oxblood color.

  • This will work fine for wearing with a suit and that's what you want your first pair of

  • shoes dress shoes to be able to is to wear them with a suit for a wedding, for a funeral,

  • anytime you've got to wear that.

  • You're meeting with the president, meeting with the CEO of your company, you're simply

  • getting dressed up for your little girl's communion.

  • This is when you want to look your best and you need to have that pair of shoes that works

  • with it.

  • Now, black is going to be the de facto color for a lot of you guys.

  • Be careful though even though you've got closed lacing on this pair of shoes, we start to

  • see a little bit of broguing here.

  • So, once you start getting into cap toes broguing, all of a sudden the formality of it is going

  • to start to go down, you could still pull this off with a suit though.

  • Guys, by the way, this is Paul Evans.

  • Most of the samples here I'm going to show you were Paul Evans.

  • This one right here is made by Church's, I've got some Cheaneys, I've got Alden.

  • There are great companies out there.

  • I go into a lot more detail in that e-book, but the first pair of shoes that you want

  • to start with balmoral oxfords.

  • Next, let's go on to Bluchers.

  • So, the second one and the big difference here is going to have an open lacing system,

  • not a closed lacing system, so that's the key differentiator.

  • You'll find that these shoes in general are going to have may be broguing or they're going

  • to have ornamental stitching, they're going to be lighter in color oftentimes.

  • So, these are going to be your more casual dress shoes.

  • These you can still sometimes pull off with a suit, but they're going to look better with

  • occasionally dark-colored jeans at the probably the most casual.

  • And then, but you can always dress them up with a pair of, you know, gray flannel trousers,

  • just regular dress slacks maybe with a sports jacket.

  • These are going to be very versatile.

  • These are great and I think should be the second pair of shoes in a man's wardrobe.

  • Next, let's go to the slip-ons.

  • So, I'm going to have a wide variety of slip-ons I'm going to show you.

  • The reason I love slip-ons is that they're casual, they're comfortable.

  • Guys, when you are traveling you're going to the airport very easy to take on and off

  • to be able to go through that metal detector.

  • They come with a wide range and most men don't think, I mean the monk strap.

  • Not technically a loafer, but I'm going to lump into the slip-ons because you don't have

  • to lace anything up.

  • And I love, I mean single, double, it doesn't matter where you go.

  • Again, I like to go with in general darker shoes and I know I'm not talking about color

  • a whole lot there.

  • Again, I go into color in the e-book, so you can go check that out.

  • Tassel loafer.

  • Now, this is going to be a little bit less formal than the monk strap, but I find many

  • men especially in the United States will pull this off with a sports jacket, odd trousers

  • combination.

  • You can wear it with jeans, it's going to look great.

  • Occasionally if it's in a very dark color, maybe a black color, you can actually even

  • pull it off with a suit although you want to be careful in bigger cities.

  • Now, all of a sudden we're having more fun.

  • So, this is a suede penny loaders.

  • This suede right here is going to give it a much more casual feel.

  • We've got the old driving shoe, comes from the moccasin.

  • Notice this right here, it's going to have this is something that you can wear around

  • in your car.

  • When it has a bottom like this, you're not going to want to wear it, you know, walking

  • around too much because it will wear quicker, but if you want something that, you know,

  • you spend a lot of time in your vehicle and you're or around your house and you want a

  • nice slipper, this is going to work out great.

  • The fourth shoe style that I'm going to talk about, gentlemen is the dress boot.

  • So, right here I've got a chukka.

  • So, chukka comes out of the English, I believe it's the word time desert boot.

  • It has since changed quite a bit.

  • This one right here as you can see is in a dark brown.

  • Again, Paul Evans is the company that made them, but checking this out right here.

  • It does have an open lacing system, so that right there is going to make it much more

  • casual.

  • I think this looks best with a pair of, you know, gray flannels maybe trousers with an

  • odd jacket with jeans that looks great.

  • You're also going to see Chelsea boots and those look really good with everything I just

  • mentioned.

  • And because they're going to be simpler in design, they actually sometimes can be worn

  • with a suit.

  • Now, I know many of you guys are saying, Antonio, I can't believe you're recommending wearing

  • boots with a suit.

  • However, if you live in New York City, you live in Chicago, you live in an area in which

  • you get some bad weather, you understand what I'm talking about.

  • Because you want to wear boots whenever the weather is just not really cooperating with

  • you, you're getting rain, you're getting some sleet, you're getting some snow, you still

  • need to wear a dress shoe and you want something that's going to go up a little bit higher

  • on the sides and protect your ankles and socks.

  • All right, gents, so you're wondering what is the fifth dress shoe that I'm going to

  • recommend.

  • Guys, I want you to go back and look at the four that I just mentioned, find out which

  • one you're wearing most often and repeat it maybe in the slightly different style slightly

  • different color.

  • So, not to fully repeat myself, but, guys, within each of these categories, I gave you

  • about three examples not just in color, but in small variations and size.

  • So, as we're going through I didn't really even talk about brogues, wingtips, but these

  • would be a great addition as a fifth shoe.

  • Gentlemen, when it comes down to it, you got to find the right shoe for your need.

  • In general though, I like to go simple, I like to go in darker colors and I like to

  • stay within one color for most of my shoes.

  • For me, it's going to be oxbloods and dark browns.

  • I find that those are going to match most of everything I have in my wardrobe, I can

  • dress them up, I can dress them down.

  • I'm not necessarily a black shoe man, however some of you guys are going to love the color

  • black and if that's your case, then make sure that all of your shoes kind of work there

  • and the reason is that is also and you're building up your interchangeable wardrobe.

  • Gents, as mentioned all the support my free e-book 85 pages of solid information.

  • Go grab it here.

  • That's it.

  • Let me know what you think in the comments and I'll see you guys in the next video.

  • Take care.

Gentlemen, Antonio here.

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