C/D: Office Workers in business suits with... running shoes!

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Mostly women try to pull this off. Smart jacket, blouse, and skirt that speak of career and motivation... and a pair of Saucony running shoes! Sure they're comfortable, but... why not just wear sweats to work then?

Perhaps they represent liberation ("We're sick of painful heels!") but nobody said fashion was supposed to be comfortable. I say DUD.

― andy, Tuesday, 5 October 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Cool only if they're Run DMC style open-laced Adidas. Super-Dud if they're Chuck Taylors.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 5 October 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought most women changed into dress shoes at work?

Whatevs. Everyone wears tennis shoes at my work, and often Cubs t-shirts too.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

(gah, x-post)

they are supposed to take these off once they get to work, I believe; the running shoes are to facilitate getting to/from public transport quickly. are you telling me that you have witnessed them keeping them on after getting to work? if so then that is WRONG and they should be FIRED.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Total dud, even worse when it's a man in a business suit with white jogging sneakers. Just wear comfortable shoes to work and run away from the muggers in them instead.

― Graeme (Graeme), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

A common sight in the Financial District at lunch time.. it's sort of like something a fourth grader would pull (like pants under a skirt). I don't care if your dress shoes are made of porcelain and brass... no skirt and sneakers combo! (Did Cyndi Lauper try this?)

― andy, Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: sneakers at the office vs. cowboy boots at the gym!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

A common sight in the Financial District at lunch time.. it's sort of like something a fourth grader would pull

or, uh, a banker going to the gym

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i am not a woman clearly, so liberation is not my charge... buuuut...
CLASSIC!!!
i wear suits with sneakers all the time! sometimes even my checkered vans...
in fact the only times i've ever worn dress shoes: once to a wedding, and once
to court.
i feel in charge with sneakers and a suit. granted my suits aren't exactly armani or
anything either... sometimes they're rumpled corduroy.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoah, it's like ILE is trying to make up for the fact that they didn't have the internet in 1983!

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

"i need comfortable shoes for sitting at my desk all day, talking on the phone to my kids and eating things"

― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.indiana.edu/~kinsey/services/Humor/kidc12430.JPG

This is proper office worker attire. Perhaps the running shoes aid in the afternoon chase-around-the-desk romp (right after the three martini lunch.)

― andy, Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Seriously, though, you do realize that the executive norm for this is to slip into smart, businesslike shoes just before entering the office, right? For a while this was a city Yuppie status symbol, because it implied that you'd snagged a condo or apartment close enough to the city center to walk to work. Not that foot comfort isn't important for subway travel as well, but still.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck all the sneaker haterz. You're just sad foot fetishists who miss the days of copious high-heeled businesswomen to place in your wank bank.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

well, fortunately for me (?!) i haven't snagged a condo, don't walk to work and i am not an executive. the subway isn't an option either. it's due to the fact that there's no dress code at my office. and maybe in a way i'm playing dress up. besides that, there's only 8 people at our office and the rest of them do mostly wear sweats or whatever, so perhaps my sneakers are a way of downplaying the glitz and letting everyone know, "hey, you slobs! i'm a man of the people to."

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

of course i meant: "...too."

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Sneakers are FINE - it's sneakers with pantyhose and those little tassle socks that rubs me wrong. The shoes don't fit with the outfit, that's the problem. Painful stilletto heels should be mandatory with business skirts.

― andy, Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I imagine andy sitting at home in his $6,000 Prada suit and $800 Italian leather loafers logging onto ILX to decry the state of women's fashion in the business world.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

the prada sport mary jane solves many of these issues.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.dacre.org/flash/www/us101177.jpg

― Professor Challenger (ex machina), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

This always vaguely depresses me, because I imagine their companies' dress codes are draconian and require them to wear uncomfortable shoes all the time and they are stuck in boring office jobs until they die. But I wear t-shirts and jeans and my job's probably just as boring, so whatever.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"I imagine andy sitting at home in his $6,000 Prada suit..."

Prada? Please. I won't let those off-the-rack potato sacks in the house. Currently I wear only hand-tailored unborn pony hide jumpsuits - all those blended fabrics cause me rashes.

― andy, Tuesday, 5 October 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

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