Boat Shoe: It Feels Like Everyone Is Wearing This Dad Wardrobe Staple for Fall
glamour.com, like clockwork, there emerges a new It-shoe—and it just may be the boat shoe's time.For the last couple of years the It shoe probably been some variation on the (when will everyone get of that sneaker?
Probably never, let’s be honest). But there have been some other significant contenders more recently. The Clarks Originals Wallabees.
The eternal . The classic Y2K .And now, we have a new aspirant in town: the boat shoe, which I wasn’t able to escape this weekend on the leaf-strewn streets of London.While you might associate boat shoes with dads and camp counselors in beige shorts, or else mega-wealthy yacht-y types at Wimbledon, don’t be fooled.
This isn’t that sort of boat shoe.The one I kept clocking around town was more often than not a blockier kind worn by Gen Z—the unisex sort you can get from Kickers or Timbaland—and nobody, absolutely nobody, was wearing them without socks or with a too-tight cropped pant like they do in Nantucket.Consider them the style Pokémon evolution of the Clarks Wallabee, only even more dad-like.
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