Subject: The Mystery of the Wing Tip Solved...
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 24 2002 - 09:34:27 GMT
Here's a link to one particular brand of wing tips shoes, with a pic,
Scottie...
http://www.aeclassics.com/ecommerce/product?product_id=43
Now that I saw them I thought...OH...THOSE are wing tips :). Duh :).
Yeah, they're pretty popular with the, oh, preppie Frazier like crowd. I
like them because they look...old :). Like a 40s...even a 20s...kind of
thing.
Jim
Jim Rovira wrote:
>
> I have a feeling that other members can answer better than I can (not being
> someone who really pays that much attention to clothes), but I think wing
> tips are a certain type of leather shoe.
>
> Jim
>
> Scottie Bowman wrote:
> >
> > Well, no, Cecilia. Master Schemmel has contracted that
> > terrible obsessive/compulsive condition, salingeroid ventriloquism
> > (where the writer has abandoned the use of his own voice for that
> > of another) - a condition I've warned members about on numerous
> > previous occasions.
> >
> > However.
> >
> > The hero of the story is described as wearing 'wing tips'.
> > This is an item of clothing unknown as such to me, a Brit.
> > Nonetheless, it appears intriguingly in various American TV
> > sitcoms - notably my farandaway, alltime, knockout favourite,
> > Frasier. It's driving me cuckoo.
> >
> > What, in the name of Jesus, are wing tips?
> >
> > Scottie B.
> >
> >
> >
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