Strange Island Men's Dress Shoe Review: Walnut Herringbone Wingtip Oxfords

About this video

The Gazette team reviews Strange Island shoes, a $260 Italian-made dress shoe marketed primarily through Instagram. They assess the shoe’s construction, materials, and wearability, ultimately concluding it functions more as a fashion brand offering than a classic menswear dress shoe, with limited practical styling options despite its bold aesthetic.

Key takeaways

• The Gazette team finds Strange Island shoes overpriced at $260 given their construction quality, lack of visible welt, stiff leather, and loud design elements
• The Gazette team argues these shoes are marketed as fashion rather than style pieces, with an elongated last and bright red laces that make them difficult to incorporate into classic menswear wardrobes
• The Gazette team demonstrates how simple modifications like swapping the laces to grey from Fort Belvedere can moderately improve wearability, though the shoe remains impractical for most occasions

Episode details: published July 22, 2020 · 8.4K views · 3:46 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. The style guidance summarized here is the Gentleman’s Gazette team’s own teaching and opinion, presented for education; product recommendations are theirs, not ours. Summaries are written by Self Growth Videos from each video itself.

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