[Blueflag]

I still have two pair of ready-to-wear, shined, shoe-trees-inserted, Johnston & Murphy wingtips (one pair black, the other brown) in my closet.

Goes back to the days when I had 17 white shirts and six Tom James suits in the closet as well (Lockheed and IBM).

The old is forever new ... and those (good) shoes never wear out.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

That is certainly true. My Florsheims were bought in ‘79 and ‘80 and still look good, especially the cordovans.

[Outlaw Woman]

Goes back to the days when I had 17 white shirts and six Tom James suits in the closet as well (Lockheed and IBM)

Oh I remember well. Although being a kid, I didn't have any appreciation. But my dad was the same way; the closet was full of white shirts, which I was paid to iron. He and my uncle had opened a machine shop specializing in precision machining of aircraft parts. He called on McDonnell, Lockheed, Martin Marietta, General Dynamics etc. Here's another piece of trivia: he flew all over the place in the 60's and always packed his .45 in his suitcase. That time will never be duplicated. Now that I have some years under my belt, I look at that period of time and realize now, that the country was in semi meltdown and I wonder what his thinking was during all that upheavel in the late 60's, early 70's.