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CheckoutIf for some reason I was forced to choose only one pair of shoes that I would wear for the rest of my life, my choice would definitely be brogues.
There is no other shoe model that fits so well into almost any area of a wide range of men's fashion, from strictly formal sets, through all the smart casual shades of gray, to quite casual combinations characteristic of casual style. It is the perfect compromise between a simple form and an interesting, elegant design, which, as you might guess, was originally developed from purely practical considerations. Today, together with the Patine.pl store, I have prepared an article for you, in which we will get acquainted with the history of the creation of this type of footwear, go through the individual basic options that contain brogues, and we will tell you what to combine them with.
The name of the shoes described today comes from the Irish language, in which the term brogue meant heavy, durable shoes. Interestingly, the English often used this term to describe the Irish accent - they believed that the Irish spoke as if they had a "shoe in their mouth." As you can see, the historical enmity was reflected in the language
