Ahem. Spats were a separate article of clothing worn over shoes.
Scoutmaster wears black and white spectator shoes made by Allen Edmonds for special occasions and always receives compliments. Scoutmaster also has a pair of black and white saddle oxfords, and a pair of brown and white saddle oxfords.
You really must learn your styles of two-tone shoes (he said, tongue in cheek).
The ladies adore them, even Mrs. Scoutmaster, who thinks that Scoutmaster's eclectic clothing styles are a bit . . . out there.
And Scoutmaster is wearing Converse tennis shoes with a Grateful Dead dancing bear pattern, but he has no speculation about the scar.
Although, were a Republican to appear with a massive cranial scar like that? We wouldn't get a moment's respite in the print and TV media until the full medical records had been stolen or leaked.