Preventi Shoes

In the past week the Preventi suede oxfords have come up in a couple of posts and a lot of readers seem to be liking them as much as I am. The sand and navy suede models are available on at Museum Ark as far as I can tell, with a price around $295US and sizes 40, 41 and 42. So the chances are, you're out of luck. The Spanish footwear brand recently showed at Pitti Uomo, but otherwise have a lack of information online. Their other models seem to be fairly nice worn in looking wingtips and casual dress shoes, but no sign of the oxfords. Now, it is quite possible these are made for the Japanese market as it seems a lot of brands gear sub collections towards. So for now it looks like Japan is the only source with only 3 sizes in each color.

Comments

[kyle]

bass makes a very similar pair i have seen around.

[AZ]

Kid, no ones gunna take you serious with soles like that ...

[hmm]

looks ridiculous.

[davidH]

call me crazy, but i'm loving the blue ones

[admin]

You're not crazy. They are both great. I don't know what the other commentors are referring to. These are some great shoes, no question about it.

[caleb]

I'm with you. Polo's had a solid dirty buck for a good price...I could never work the all-white, but dirty bucks with the rubber sole are a done-deal in the summer.

[iSynth]

looks tremendously ridiculous

[admin]

I'm sorry, but how can somebody say these are ridiculous?

These shoes are really far from anything ridiculous. I'm a bit confused at people saying this who read by blog and I assume generally agree with the products featured here? I've posted about far more odd pieces than these shoes. They are 2 color, classic colors, fairly classic red brick soles, nice suede oxford cut?

I would be interested to hear how or why these are not good looking shoes?

[davidH]

I want to know as well. It frustrates me that I can't order anything from Museum Ark due to their being a japanese online store. Have any of you worked around this barrier?

[Chris]

JCrew has even came out with some bucks haha

[davidH]

@ chris - yea they're pretty nice, but i'm loving the colorway of the preventi bucks

[LM]

Trickers>These

[hmm]

The shoes just look heinous...like clown shoes or fairy shoes.
There's a fine line between good taste and trying too hard...and these shoes are definitely the latter.

The colors are too outrageous and plays with extremes of hues (WE haven't seen that before! sarcasm).

The shoe is a one liner. It's like a hamburger from McDonald's. Speaking of which, i prefer Ronald McDonald's clown shoes to these.

[Mel]

Looks like Ulysses is back incognito....