Toe Cap Shoes - English Tan

Super Versatile - Goes with anything. Worn with jeans, chinos, slacks and suits and with or without socks. A stylish GQ friend of mine wears these shoes barefoot with shorts.

Good looking - Do your current dress shoes get you compliments from strangers or do friends ask, “How long did the doctor say you have to wear those shoes?” Are you still wearing the dress shoes your mom bought you for your first big boy interview out of college?

Up Your Style - When I started wearing nice nice high quality leather shoes and boots, I naturally felt like I needed to up my clothing. So, my wife took me out to buy some new clothes and with all of the compliments, I never looked back. “The shoe maketh the man”.

Super Comfortable Anatomic Shape - “They are the most comfortable shoe I own” is the most common comment in the reviews of the Officers Boots, which share this same last as these dress shoes. Designed for all day comfort straight out of the box and for marching long distances… if you happen to get kidnapped and someone makes you. The thick leather insole AND thick slabs of leather in the middle of the shoe beneath, lets your foot impress its print and become more comfortable with each decade you wear them. Our twisted Munson last makes your feet mimic barefoot walking.

High Quality For A 100 Year Warranty -  High quality construction techniques, high quality materials and a high quality design make them last for the rest of your life.

• Italians have high quality construction methods that make shoes stay together, look nicer and feel better for longer.
• European cows have a very dense fiber structure which gets even tighter when the vegetable tannins pull the leather fibers together even tighter. But the extra long tanning process that Tempesti uses to tan it is what makes ours one of the toughest, yet finest, leathers in the world so the shoe holds its shape beautifully.
• Our high quality design snugly holds the heel and waist of your foot in one place so your foot doesn’t bang around and beat up and stretch out the toe box from the inside.
• Our leather lining is of the  highest quality too.

The Most Popular Last in History - This rarest of shoe shapes is the most consequential and famous anatomically correct form in history. Dr. Edward Lyman Munson, a relative of mine, developed this twisted shoe last in 1912 for hundreds of millions of soldiers in the US Military from 1912 to about 1970. There were 6 generations of the Munson last. Ours is based on the 1st generation which no longer exists anywhere on Earth that we know of besides the one we found in a small collectors market in Paris. When the 2nd generation went into production in about 1919, all of the prior wooden lasts were burned for firewood. Over the years, they all disappeared.

In the U.S., shoes with a layer of leather on the toe are called Cap Toe shoes, but in Europe they’re called Toe Cap shoes. Toe Cap flows off the tongue way easier than Cap Toe, so we’re going with Toe Cap. And technically, the style of shoe is called a Derby, which is far more attractive than an Oxford style shoe, but I think the name Derby sounds kind of dumb, so I’m just calling it the Toe Cap shoe. Watch out for false toe caps on cheaper shoes. It is not a second layer, but just constructed to look like it. 

Those who are traditional, detail oriented, more formal, practical and confident and who prefer timeless, tried and true designs, wear Toe Caps. They choose careers and relationships where trust, competence and conservative actions are valued, like in law, finance, executive leadership and formal business. The impression they often leave is: "I'm here to be taken seriously." The color of the shoe fits the personality or the occasion, Browns speak of down to Earthness. Lighter colors signal more approachable and warm, while black is more serious and business oriented.

1. “Good shoes take you good places.”
2. “You are either in your bed or in your shoes, so it pays to invest in both.”
3. “Quality shoes don’t just support your feet — they support your presence.”
4. “The difference between walking in and owning the room might just be your shoes.”
5. “The right shoes speak louder than words.”
6. “Shoes are a silent introduction. They speak before you do.”
7. “A man’s shoes are the first thing a woman notices.”
8. “What you put on your feet tells the world where you've been and where you think you're going.”
9. “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” - Mark Twain
10. My favorite “Never touch another man’s shoes” - Julian Imrie