Male Fashion Advice

The fashion crowd has chimed in and they're certainly not wrong. That said from a practical standpoint, outside of the one-off fashionistas and overzealous folk working the door, very few people will be paying that much attention to your shoes if they're matching your pants.

I am completely wrong if this is a snooty crowd having a wedding at a country club or something extreme like that. For the most part though your average person is enjoying the wedding not inspecting everybody's shoes.

If you want to Google some general guidance, formal is generally somewhere between cocktail and Black tie.

Second option are these

No, they won't look right with anything formal. They're fine for "office casual" or something, but if the host has asked for formal attire this isn't it.

If you like these, try for a more conventional tassel loafer. The problem is really the sole, and stitching.

These being Docs, that puts the price around $150 to $200. That's good news, you'll have a lot of options in the same price range. Start shopping early, especially if you have to do mail order. A wedding can be a long day, especially if you're dancing at the reception afterwards. It may take you a little while to find something that works for you.

There's just a lot happening with these shoes:

• the yellow contrast stitching
• the tassels
• the "penny-like" leather horizontal strap to which the tassels are attached to
• the kilt

Whoever was designing those knew they're mixing three types of loafers (tassel, penny, kilted). They're pretty much designed to grab attention. And with classic formal menswear the goal is to normally do the opposite.

Even if the rest of the outfit was perfect (e.g. if you had loose wool pants with a large leg opening to cover most of the shoes etc.) it'd still end up looking fashion forward at best if you pulled it off. It'd help if you're 18-22 yrs old.

I know it sucks having to buy yet another pair of shoes just to wear them once for a wedding. You still have a lot of time till October so maybe thrift/Vinted some cap toe oxfords till then?

~~Penny~~ Tassel loafers and docs having an evil love child makes me uncomfortable. I felt something though so bravo to this art.

If you’re getting off the mayflower, sure.

Not in my opinion.

Then again, I've seen weddings where people brought their snakes, so who knows.

I thought “formal” meant tux and “semi-formal” meant suit, but I could be wrong.

I think you could probably make this work with the latter, but they won’t really work with the former.

I've seen people show up to weddings and funerals in fucking overalls, you're fine

No loafer is formal enough for a wedding in the West traditionally speaking

Would have to see the rest of the outfit to make an informed decision with this one, typically you would wear wingtips but you might be able to get away with this. All the attentions on the bride and groom after all