So what’s the deal with guys wearing brown shoes?
The wrong shoes can destroy a man’s dreams especially In the City of London, where the “no brown in town” rule retains such force that it is being used to weed out prospective employees.
Research by the Social Mobility Commission reported this week that banks are less likely to hire men who wear brown shoes to a job interview. Other dressing no-nos include failure to match the colour of your shoes to your belt, and having a pocket on your shirt.
The thinking is that you distract people with your footwear when you need them to concentrate on what you say.
Justin Myers, an author and GQ columnist, isn’t a lover of black shoes because “they’re boring and safe, and they remind him of school”. And they have a tendency to look cheap even when they’re not, he says.
Myers doesn’t like rules such as no brown in town either. “It’s always about trying to make someone feel left out. Usually, these weirdo rules are born out of people’s own insecurities. It’s all about the British obsession with class and keeping people out. When you can’t find anything else to fault someone on, then look at the shoes.”
“Brown shoes show someone more at ease with themselves because of that old rule: the height of class is breaking the rules.”
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