I need a nice shoe, something I can wear a lot with a sports jacket. Think several days a week. I already have a set of full dress shoes for a suit.

What do you think of this:
http://www.colehaan.com/colehaan/catalog/product.jsp?productId=93787&categoryId=307003&productGroup=93788
or
http://www.colehaan.com/colehaan/catalog/product.jsp?productId=713&categoryId=307003&productGroup=1310

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I vote for the second one. (group 1310) Although the top one might be more comfortable. Make sure the heel isn't too hard, or you will click-clack on hard surfaces.

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The second one, ohh me likey.

Yeah, I know the second one is more , but I don't like the first one with that stretch band on the outside. btw, you can get johnston & murphy's for a lot less and they look just as good.

I have horrible luck with Cole Haan's...I wear the soles out in no time. Buck up and get some Allen Edmonds, they feel great and wear like iron.

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So this begs the queston, which one is better?

Or is this a Ford vs Chevy, BMW vs Mercedes thing?

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Yeah, but Allen Edmons is close to Ferragamo prices which is a Cole-Haan product if he wants to get real tricky.

The second one is a new style, so I don't think I can get it much cheaper.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007T6FHG/ref=pd_sbs_a_1/102-2854019-7800916?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=1036592

Older style is about $100 less.

Still it is a nice shoe.

I don't know, the Cole Haan looks a bit better IMHO:
http://www.allenedmonds.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/SearchDisplayDetailView?storeId=1&langId=-1&contractId=100&catalogId=40000000001&parent_category_rn=0&categoryId=190&productId=3150000&imageType=1

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Nobody ever accused me of having good taste, so don't be offended by what I am about to say.

That first shoe, the Maxwell, is one butt ugly shoe, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. If I saw a well dressed person wearing a pair of Maxwells, I would assume that it was the latest in fashion because no well dressed person would wear such an ugly shoe unless people with a sense for fashion liked it. That is exactly the reaction I had the other day when I went to a business meeting that included some well-off and fashionable people. One guy was there in expensive, though casual, attire. His whole outfit looked great, but then he had these funky loafer things on that also looked expensive. I thought, "Those are some ugly shoes." But the overall effect wasn't bad.

2006....which rock did you have to look under to uncover this old thread?

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