I received the holy mysteries yesterday from someone who celebrated wearing brown shoes.
The shoes in question were beautifully polished and the feet that they were on were of the most reverend quality, (the Most!) but it still bothers me 24 hours later.
Time we rewrote the canon on clergy dress, I think.
Tell me someone do, is my desire for shiny black footwear at the altar of the Lord merely my own sad fetish which I should deal with quietly and with appropriate counselling?
One of your sponsored links currently says “buy Men white dress shoes” !
Which opens the debate, should men wear black shoes with their white dresses?
They should wear their black shoes with their white [cassock] albs. No debate.
When we serve, my brothers Gordon & Neil wear black shoes, and I wear black Duffs Skate shoes with gray laces.
This is down to my personal dress style though. Even in work we are meant to be smart but I haven’t found a pair of shoes that I find comfy. I have been known to wear white (albeit slightly dirty) converse under my navy cassock and surplice. That’s didn’t go down too well.
Ah – but if black shiny shoes are considered to be OK, what about black sparkly shoes? At my own beloved church, I have often noticed a chorister wearing a most divine pair of black shoes encrusted with sequins under his robes of state – and very stylish he looks too. Is this permitted, or will he be condemned to an eternity of being prodded with pointy sticks for this?
And just re-reading the above – the chorister in question is probably not PamB’s daughter, seeing as he is, well, a he.
There’s been no mention of black suede brogues. Convenient. quite smart, and entirely suitable, I think.
There has been no mention of black suede brogues because most people instintively know that they are unsuitable, I think.
This is all very sad, but I am not in a position to cast any stones, given my obsession with apostrophes.
I hope you realise that there should have been a smiley with that last comment:-)