Originally Posted by
chucky
Have some couth. Would you wear running shoes to a funeral? On a date? To a restaurant with an unknown dress code?
If your best attire is running shoes then you're a total schlub and if your bicycle is your primary vehicle like mine is then your cycling shoes are your best shoes (along with all your other shoes).
Not in my experience. That's why I made this thread because I prefer my boat shoes to my spds.
I wouldn't wear boat shoes to any of those either.
I have a feeling we are discussing totally different boat shoes. You mentioned Rockports... a quick web check shows that most of the line of Rockport boat shoes also look like "running shoes." Who is the "total schlub" now?
http://www.rockport.com/family/index...60397&view=all
Of course there are those leather upper boat shoes which are more appropriate in an office or some restaurants and maybe dates, and less appropriate on a deck.
But to be fully honest, if you are the owner of a nice 65 foot yacht and your crew does all your bow work, and your cycling consists of the occasional jaunt from the slip to the clubhouse, then yes indeed, "boat shoes" are probably more appropriate foot wear.
But if you, like me, regularly cycle commute 15-20 miles each way, and your boat is a J-105 or an Etchells, or something else similar, and occasionally wet... then I would tend to have "boat shoes" and "cycling shoes" that are each geared specifically for such purpose... just as I also have cycling gloves and sailing gloves, each with different characteristics and attributes.
Just for the record, I also have a diving wet suit and a swimming wet suit, each again with vastly different characteristics and attributes.
I prefer to use the right tool for the job. I do however wear the same shoes to funerals and job interviews.
