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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doubting Thomas" data-source="post: 1351205" data-attributes="member: 17298"><p>Thanks for making this thread.  I've had my old pair of (relatively cheap) black dress shoes for about five years now, and they've held up pretty well all things considered but the lining is starting to come apart at the heal on one of them and I was thinking about buying another pair, a little bit better in quality.  This thread has been very useful in helping me decide what to look for in my next pair of dress shoes.  I guess the one thing I'm curious about, is that you've said multiple times that "every man must invest in is a pair of plain black capped toe oxfords."  Aesthetically I've always sort of preferred the plain toe to the capped.  Is the capped shoe being the standard just convention, or is there some other reason (such as durability) that a plain toe should be avoided?</p></blockquote><p></p>