Gentlemen, are you ready to get to know your new favorite shoe? With the rise in casual men's style, sneakers will naturally take the lead but as we all know, there's nothing like a sharply dressed man. OAKA combines the comfort of a sneaker and style factor of the Derby and redesigned the dress shoe from scratch fixing all of the things that made the derby uncomfortable. The result is the
OAKA The Derby Shoe, the new, healthier men's dress shoe. The OAKA The Derby Shoe helps improve your health, mobility, and comfort, by focusing on the active professional. And we're giving one of you guys the chance to win a pair! Keep reading to learn about this wonderful men's shoe and how to win a pair for yourself.
What makes the OAKA The Derby Shoe so amazing? There are many aspects to the stylist slip-on shoe. First, OAKA developed a unique faux heel to create a zero drop dress shoe that allows your feet to walk flat to the ground like you're barefoot. This will help correct posture and allow your feet to strengthen over time. The entire shoe is all about comfort. It's made of soft, flexible, and breathable fibers for extreme comfort. The upper is made from flyknit fibers that helps reduce production waste compared to more traditional manufacturing processes.
Frequent travelers will greatly appreciate the OAKAs ability to fold up and be flexible, making them perfect for the road and the best travel dress shoe available. It boasts a faux heel that gives the typical dress shoe look from the outside. This faux heel is in fact derived from special cut outs allowing your foot to stay flat to the ground. These special cutouts also help drain water out and prevent hydroplaning like you'd find in a traditional dress shoe. Add in an innovative, anti-slip, open tread outer sole, and you really have the perfect shoe. But there's more....
As previously mentioned, these shoes feature a zero drop inner sole that allows your feet to stay flat to the ground rather than at an angle like with almost all other shoes. Most shoes, not just dress shoes, have a 8mm to 16mm height difference between the toe box and the heel making you walk at an unnatural angle and can contribute to changing your gait, poor posture, shortening the tendons, and foot pain. With the OAKA The Derby Shoe, the more you wear it, the more it strengthens your feet. Are you ready to win a pair?
Available in Ash Gray and Ink Black, the OAKA The Derby Shoe is available for $165.00 on www.oakastudio.com, but as we mentioned, one lucky person will win this stylish and comfortable suit-ready styled shoe. To enter this giveaway, enter via the Rafflecopter entry below
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Salvatore Ferragamo Gancini Derby Shoes
Sometimes you need a classic looking black dress shoe with a bit of 'umph'. These Gancini Derby Shoes from Ferragamo may be just that shoe. The upper is a slick as ice black leather cut as one piece without seaming for a streamlined look from front to back. Now about that back. This is where the 'umph' comes in. The back of this shoe features the classic Ferragamo horsebit in brilliant gold metal. Perfect since trousers are tailored shorter nowadays and just in time for the Holiday gala season. Available now at
FarFetch.com.
Grenson X Craig Green Derby Shoe
The abstract, the cheeky and the impassioned Craig Green teamed up with the esteemed, the tenured and the applauded camp at Grenson for a nice collaborative Derby Shoe. Combining the whimsy or Green with the craftsmanship of Grenson, this derby features an extended upward vamp with an inverted seam center split seam anchored onto a lightweight no -slip Vibram™ lug sole. Pair this with cropped trousers, characteristic modern suiting or with chopped denim and celebrate the aesthetics of the noted designer and the well-done derby both at once. Available now at
Grenson.com.
Balenciaga Striped Lace-Up Derby Shoe
You don't wear sneakers all Summer long. Occasionally you have a wedding, graduation or dinner to go to or maybe you just want to floss out for the evening. Enter the Balenciaga Striped Lace-Up Derby Shoe. The upper is a slick diagonal striped textile with the Balenciaga moniker woven right into the jacquard fabric. The insole and outsole are leather with a metal logo hardware tacked at the back heel. Pair this will all your cool downtown Summer threads and get funky with these. Available now at
BergdorfGoodman.com.
Admittedly I've been in numerous instances while on a date where I wanted to initiate that passenger ejector seat from the James Bond 'Goldfinger' film to free me up to enjoy my cocktail without the annoying company. Then, how handy could that switchblade shoe donned by the surly femme fatale in 'From Russia With Love' be when traipsing home after a night of cocktail imbibing in Soho? Then while laptop bags and luggage with built in battery chargers have become toned-down versions of that tricked out briefcase from that same 'Goldfinger' flick, we've still quite a way to go until the 'smart' moniker can attach itself to our everyday clothing and not just our phones. Until now it seems.
Think of it as a sign-of-the-times-to-come meeting with keeping a classic heritage alive. That is what The Secret Shoe is, a collaborative effort from the skilled hands of
Oliver Sweeney and the luxury Rolodex site
VeryFirstTo.com.
The Secret Shoe is an exquisitely handcrafted deerskin derby that gives you classic handsome on the outside and forward tech savviness on the inside. However, the privy gent won't miss a step. The Secret Shoe is sleek and clean as any discreet spy gadget would be, but appropriately handsome and polished as any true modern luxury mens item should be.
The Secret Shoe is an elegant bespoke shoe that can contain up to 6 gizmos (3 in each shoe) from a list of 12 including: the world’s smallest phone; a tiny video/still camera; a mini Swiss Army knife; a tracking device; a minute aftershave atomiser with Oliver Sweeney fragrance; a choice of currency capsule (£50; €50; or $50); and the world’s most advanced contactless payment ring.
Long-CZ, the world’s smallest and thinnest phone is the size of a thumb, weighs less than 20 grams and includes a radio, voice changer, text voicemail and call options all using a micro sim. This would allow you to call your own phone to try and locate it or phone a taxi or even the police. Another remarkable option is Enklov, the smallest pocket spy camera, which is enabled with night vision, motion detection and can take HD videos and photos. Kerv, the world’s first contactless payment payment ring, is an attractive slim ring that pays for everything anywhere that accepts Mastercard contactless payments.
The gadgets are hidden within the shoe and covered with the inner sole, which can be easily peeled back ensuring they remain a secret to everyone but the owner. Additionally, any purchaser who wishes to hide a spare key can request a specially cut space within one of the shoes to accommodate it. The shoes, handmade in the renowned Ancona, Italy, are made from sumptuous deerskin and are available in black, brown and tan and has the tenured expertise of Tim Copper, Chief Cobbler at Oliver Sweeney. Other sweet details to this groundbreaking derby are indestructible Kevlar laces, the durable material that makes parachute cords, pristine tattooing from Henry Hate whose inscriptions will include the purchaser's name, blood type, address & GPS coordinates and whatever other details deemed pertinent. There are over 70 stages to perfecting this benchmark shoe to ensure that the gadgets the purchaser choose fit accurately into their specific compartment within the sole and the handcrafted process takes 2 weeks to complete. Now you can sip that martini, court that beauty, remain unassumingly connected while stepping dapperly attired with confidence and ease to battle the villains of your modern day.
The Secret Shoe is available now at OliverSweeney.com and through VeryFirstTo.com.
Thom Browne Black & White Tweed Wholecut Derbys
Since I'm a sucker for a menswear windowpane, glen plaid, birdseye, nailhead or herringbone, I instantly fell in love with these shoes. Thom Browne's Black & White Tweed Wholecut Derbys are a sweet walk into mens footwear that can appeal to textile purists and forward movers alike. The entire upper is a crisp Harris tweed herringbone all cut in one piece with no seams and has the perfect almond toe. The full leather lining is slick and finishes off this shoe appropriately with the distinctive Thom Browne red, white and blue heel tab. Pair this with your Fall menswear suitings, chunky knits and textures separates but also your cropped denims and cropped trousers alike. Available now at
Ssense.com.
Rag & Bone Elliot Derby
The unofficial celebrated color of a classic Summer season takes shape in this handsome Elliot Derby from Rag & Bone. Executed in a crisp taupe suede, this shoe features a contrasting but harmonious white crepe rubber wedge sole and has leather logo patch detailing on the tongue. This is a great day to evening shoe that offers up the fun refreshing color for day and the sophisticated minimal detail for evening. Available now at
Ssense.com.
Baldinini Woven Calfskin Collection
A sweet Spring shoe should have a nice level of artistry to it. Baldinini knows a thing or two about crafting up a handsome artful shoe. Their Woven Calfskin Collection is just beautiful. The collection features pristine uppers of calfskin in an interwoven design that blends tradition detailing with modern clean styling for a shoe that can work well with trousers, denim or shorts. There are three styles in the woven calfskin collection, a tassel loafer, a derby and a slipper loafer and all are available now at
Baldinini.com.
It was l'amour at first sight when we first laid eyes on these chic polka dot derby shoes, the
Cop Copine Trotter Derby Shoes. We were recently introduced to this incredibly chic french clothing brand, and immediately fell in love. Footwear-wise, our obsession began with this heeled derbies boasting 100% leather upper, rounded toe, lace-up closure, exposed stitching, and a 1 1/2" stacked heel. You can add this slice of French delight to your closet for $285.00 from
www.cop-copineus.com
Common Projects Shine Perforated Derby
First they shut down sneakers and now they're segueing into shoes. Common Projects' Shine Perforated Derby keeps the polished pristine leather aesthetic that the brand has become known for and makes it a tad more grown and sexy. The upper features a one-piece oxford shape in a micro-perforated leather complete with the numerical branding on the rear side heel. The contrasting wedge rubber sole with Stormwelt construction midsole finish off the shoe very nicely to make for a suaver dress up dress down effect. Available now at
End Clothing.
Prada Runway Two-Tone Leather Derby Shoe
Step out in Prada style. That means you step out with quality, art and forward fashion on your feet. The Prada Runway Two-Tone Leather Derby Shoe is a cool shoe that symbolizes the great mind of Miuccia Prada. The upper features slick black leather with wing-tip tooling flanked by an avant ergonomic looking grey midsole detail that seems to wave over the upper of the shoe. The effect is both striking and artistic and very Prada. Available now at
BergdorfGoodman.com.
