043012_buck 5-4-2012

Buck Up

A quick guide on where to wear your bucks

Back in the 1800s the white buck was worn—literally—as a tennis shoe.  So one might imagine it has certain “formal” limitations.  But, nowadays, nothing could be further from the truth. Despite its humble beginnings the traditional white buck is the shoe that put the “white shoe” in the term “white shoe firm.”  Meaning those 60s Ivy educated lawyers saw the shoe as a perfectly appropriate match to suit, tie and office. Those stubborn preppies not only began wearing white bucks with their summer suits, but also began to break the no-white-shoes-after-labor-day rule, claiming that their bucks—now dirty ... Read the full story »

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