For men's dress shoes, one hard rule I have is they need to be Goodyear welted. It's a bit harder to do, so you'll find that generally those shoes also have higher quality leather and overall better craftsmanship.

Generally, the best shoe brands are based in England and Spain. There are a few Japanese and American brands that are very good.

Omitting Italy and France wasn't an oversight. They generally use an inferior stitching method called Blake, questionable leather, and overall poorer construction.

The watch analogy would be the difference between wearing a Rolex/Omega/Patek Philippe vs. Burberry/Versace/Gucci.

This pair is from Spain. They're Carmina single monks.

Personally, I love single/double monk shoes, but they're kind of polarizing. 🤣

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above all else is comfort!

generally these types of shoes have 9 different width sizes you can get them. all the way from AAAA (slimmest) to EEE (widest)

thanks and yeah, long pointy shoes have a long interesting history 😅

the short answer is your toes wouldn't go all the way to the top of the shoe. it's more about getting everything to fit in the widest part of the shoe.

but overall, it's a fair point to say that even still not every foot would be comfortable in in that shape of a shoe. this particular brand makes 33 different shoe outlines (called "lasts") and then figure within each type of last, they have different all those widths. 

so all that is to say, they have something for everyone. :)

🤝 on comfort :) 

How are your toes in even EEE widths if the toebox goes to a point though? Toes wanna spread 


… disclosure: live rural where I can go barefoot a lot in the summer and have trouble enjoying any shoe by fall each year 😬