The end of Kiwi shoe polish?

[dimsum]

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News – The end of Kiwi Shoe Care?

The world’s largest shoe care brand, Kiwi, looks to be discontinued. According to several sources with insight, the multinational corporation SC Johnson will stop producing Kiwi products. Las…

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[brihard]

https://www.reddit.com/r/caf/s/NFdlgGKqmW

News – The end of Kiwi Shoe Care?

The world’s largest shoe care brand, Kiwi, looks to be discontinued. According to several sources with insight, the multinational corporation SC Johnson will stop producing Kiwi products. Las…

shoegazing.com

 

[Edward Campbell]

Friggin' corfram and Crocs!!!

 

[Infanteer]

...and desert boots! When NATO armies switched to brown suede boots, it spelled the end of black boot polish!

 

[dimsum]

...and desert boots! When NATO armies switched to brown suede boots, it spelled the end of black boot polish!

Also, does this mean the CAF has to change to patent leather parade boots and Oxford shoes?

 

[Halifax Tar]

Also, does this mean the CAF has to change to patent leather parade boots and Oxford shoes?

Your heresy is noticed

We really should though. The Oxfords are top shelf.

 

[dapaterson]

https://www.reddit.com/r/caf/s/NFdlgGKqmW

News – The end of Kiwi Shoe Care?

The world’s largest shoe care brand, Kiwi, looks to be discontinued. According to several sources with insight, the multinational corporation SC Johnson will stop producing Kiwi products. Las…

shoegazing.com

If we really want to be certain about the end of Kiwi, we need to support Australia invading and liberating New Zealand at the same time.

 

[Haggis]

Also, does this mean the CAF has to change to patent leather parade boots and Oxford shoes?

Just do away with DEU entirely. Problem solved.

 

[dapaterson]

Just do away with DEU entirely. Problem solved.

So, if we're abolishing formal orders of dress, that means the kilts are gone as well.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

Also, does this mean the CAF has to change to patent leather parade boots and Oxford shoes?

Report, at once, for re-educating.

This is a dark, dark day…

(well, actually, gray and scuffed…)

 

[dapaterson]

Also, does this mean the CAF has to change to patent leather parade boots and Oxford shoes?

Patent leather, Logistik style:

 

[Remius]

Your heresy is noticed

We really should though. The Oxfords are top shelf.

I have a pair and refuse to go back to the crap shoes logistik has.

 

[Halifax Tar]

I have a pair and refuse to go back to the crap shoes logistik has.

Me too. For comfort and for looks.

 

[dimsum]

If we really want to be certain about the end of Kiwi, we need to support Australia invading and liberating New Zealand at the same time.

Emutopia finally beats Kiwiland!

I have a pair and refuse to go back to the crap shoes logistik has.

Are you talking about the SWAT patent leather ones? I found them to be worse at keeping sweat/odour in than our green issued boxers.

The Logistik Oxfords with Leather Luster are my go-to DEU shoes.

 

[Haggis]

So, if we're abolishing formal orders of dress, that means the kilts are gone as well.

And trews, thankfully. Kilted order of dress, while looking sharp, is entirely impractical for day-to-day work.

 

[Remius]

Emutopia finally beats Kiwiland!


Are you talking about the SWAT patent leather ones? I found them to be worse at keeping sweat/odour in than our green issued boxers.

The Logistik Oxfords with Leather Luster are my go-to DEU shoes.

Yes, for the amount of time I have to wear them, the level effort I save, the comfort they provide, I prefer them to the current Garbo logistic has. The older issued Oxfords were fine but when they changed them I was less than impressed.

 

[RangerRay]

Also, does this mean the CAF has to change to patent leather parade boots and Oxford shoes?

 

[Brad Sallows]

Hardly surprising with the ongoing 50+ years trend away from dressing well. People have been wearing what look like pyjamas for years. Still, I figure the odds are increasing that I live long enough to see G-strings become formal evening wear.

 

[OldSolduer]

Hardly surprising with the ongoing 50+ years trend away from dressing well. People have been wearing what look like pyjamas for years. Still, I figure the odds are increasing that I live long enough to see G-strings become formal evening wear.

And ordering breakfast from Door Dash.

A few years ago a high school attempted to stop students from showing up in pyjamas. I’m not sure what the final verdict was.

 

[dimsum]

Hardly surprising with the ongoing 50+ years trend away from dressing well.

It’s been far longer than that. But, what is “informal” for one generation becomes “formal” for one 2-3 generations later. There is a great Terminal Lance comic about that.

People have been wearing what look like pyjamas for years. Still, I figure the odds are increasing that I live long enough to see G-strings become formal evening wear.

I personally have no issue with “Athleisure” wear, as long as people don’t wear it in outrageously inappropriate times, like a funeral. Daily life though? Sure.

I’m pretty sure that if G-strings become formal evening wear, peer pressure would make them self-selecting.