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[anonymous-user]

Under what circumstances would you need "nice" safety shoes?

[FreeLitres]

desolate said:

Under what circumstances would you need "nice" safety shoes?

When visiting industrial clients, 80% of the visit is usually meeting in the offices with the management team to present our technology but then we tend to walk through the site and look at the proposed locations for the new equipment. It can be a hassle for the client to go to the other side of the site to source some shoes for me.

[Goaty Bill 2]

FreeLitres said:

desolate said:

Under what circumstances would you need "nice" safety shoes?

When visiting industrial clients, 80% of the visit is usually meeting in the offices with the management team to present our technology but then we tend to walk through the site and look at the proposed locations for the new equipment. It can be a hassle for the client to go to the other side of the site to source some shoes for me.

It was once quite common in construction management. Maybe still is.
Much of the day spent in an office on or near site, in meetings with the other suits/professional team, but having on-site duties as well.

I still have a pair, long unused.
Nasty looking things, but better than boots when wearing a charcoal grey pinstripe, especially if required to wear them all day.

[craigjm]

I wonder what the reaction at a bespoke maker would be if you walked in and said you wanted beautiful shoes but to the safety standards? mind you one of the SavileRow tailors made James May a bespoke boiler suit once so why not .

[Blown2CV]

craigjm said:

I wonder what the reaction at a bespoke maker would be if you walked in and said you wanted beautiful shoes but to the safety standards? mind you one of the SavileRow tailors made James May a bespoke boiler suit once so why not .

i guess the difference is that there are rules around what properties the shoe needs to have to comply with the standards, and i guess those rules must restrict the ability to make them stylish and not look like joey deacon specials.

[Rosscow]

LordGrover said:

They can look a bit speshal, can't they? Click.

Maybe slightly better?

http://charnwoodfootwear.co.uk/safety-footwear/foo...

[craigjm]

Blown2CV said:

craigjm said:

I wonder what the reaction at a bespoke maker would be if you walked in and said you wanted beautiful shoes but to the safety standards? mind you one of the SavileRow tailors made James May a bespoke boiler suit once so why not .

i guess the difference is that there are rules around what properties the shoe needs to have to comply with the standards, and i guess those rules must restrict the ability to make them stylish and not look like joey deacon specials.

http://www.siteworkwear.co.uk/safety-standards.htm

An interesting read, wonder if the Joey Deacon specials are just lazy design and the easiest way to meet the standad.

[Trabi601]

These are the Screwfix shoes. They're nowhere near as bad as the usual offering.

[Blown2CV]

they are all pretty windsors world of shoes meets local authority funded looking tbh

[arfursleep]

Blown2CV said:

joey deacon specials.

that made me laugh far more than it should have

[anonymous-user]

Do people really wear their decent suits to an environment that needs safety shoes?

Surely there would be a mechanism whereby you can take the specials in the car or get changed before you leave the office?

[Goaty Bill 2]

desolate said:

Do people really wear their decent suits to an environment that needs safety shoes?

Surely there would be a mechanism whereby you can take the specials in the car or get changed before you leave the office?

I always did when in construction.
In my example above, I worked on a large site with relatively decent site offices for the 'professionals', and a suit was de rigueur.
I spent a good part of my day meeting with the quantity surveyors, architects, contracts managers, client PM, but still had to make regular rounds of the site.
Similarly, when responsible for several sites in London, travelling via the tube, meeting people for lunch, drinks after work, (and real meetings of course), yet required to walk into some pretty nasty places.
Obviously, a clothes brush also accompanied me in my brief case.

[Halb]

And your man, Benson?

[sidekickdmr]

Personally I'd rather wear a suit and work boots/builders boots, that are obviously only been worn out of nessisity

Than wear some of those nasty looking "smart safety shoes" as people may think my shoe taste is genuinely that bad! I'd always be saying "excuse the shoes, steel toe capped y'see!"

[Trabi601]

sidekickdmr said:

Personally I'd rather wear a suit and work boots/builders boots, that are obviously only been worn out of nessisity

Than wear some of those nasty looking "smart safety shoes" as people may think my shoe taste is genuinely that bad! I'd always be saying "excuse the shoes, steel toe capped y'see!"

To be fair, the more restrained looking safety brogues require a lot less explanation than some of the monstrosities posted in this thread!

[Halb]

After viewing the last ep of Justified, a programme I adore, I wondered about his footwear.
http://timothyolyphantjustified.com/raylan-givens-...
Nice.

[HD Adam]

Halb said:

After viewing the last ep of Justified, a programme I adore, I wondered about his footwear.
http://timothyolyphantjustified.com/raylan-givens-...
Nice.

I've got some Lucchese boots.

Very comfy.

[Halb]

HD Adam said:

I've got some Lucchese boots.

Very comfy.

Oh sweet. Did you try and buy? Buy them in the states?

[HD Adam]

Halb said:

HD Adam said:

I've got some Lucchese boots.

Very comfy.

Oh sweet. Did you try and buy? Buy them in the states?

Yes & yes.

They are brown ropers like this.

[bob-lad]

Reach for the sky!