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The day dies in a wrath of cloud,

Flecking her roofs with pallid rain,

And dies its music, rough and loud,

Struck from the tiresome strings of pain.

Her highways leap to festal bloom,

And swallow-swift the traffic skims

O'er sudden shoals of light and gloom,

Made lovelier where the distance dims.

Robed by her tiring-maid, the dusk,

The town lies in a silvered bower,

As, from a miserable husk,

The lily robes herself with flower.

And all her tangled streets are gay,

And all her rudenesses are gone;

For, howso pitiless the day,

The evening brings delight alone.

The assessment of a man’s style and personality commonly begins with his choice of footwear. If a bloke lavishes nurture and attention on such a lowly and conventionally unobserved part of his body, it is presumably thought that he must invest equal, or greater, care on the relax of his appearance. This fastidiousness would probably advise he possessed commensurate – and much-desired – traits in others aspects of his life.

So what of the preponderance of the slipper and loafer?

The slipper is historically associated with the sitting room and fireplace, but it has become an increasingly ordinary site at black tie events and the beach, as has the more hardwearing loafer, which has a more nefarious reputation, linked to cads and homosexuals.

Above : Dimitri Gomez bespoke slippers, George Cleverley slippers and loafers, the famous “wall” at Pitti Uomo

Typically made from suede, which needs less regular maintenance than leather shoes made from the outer surface of an animal’s skin, and commonly associa