On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 12:00:01 -0600, you wrote: >Back in the day all men wore dress shoes with leather bottoms, or soles. If >anyone has ever had a pair of these shoes you know that they are very slick on >most floor surfaces and carpet. The only good traction is on concrete. >A man would sometimes take a knife and cut slits across the bottom of the >shoes to give better grip or traction so as not to slip and bust your >constitution.
That may be true, but according to Andy's standup the idea of "slittin" shoes was to make them more comfortable for country boys who weren't used to being shod in leather shoes. Or any shoes at all, thank youi. Corns, Bunions, I'll fitting areas etc. Theyd slit the the uppers at a critical point . to make them comfortable. Remember when Otis went for his Historical Plaque and was late becuase of that shoe thing- what did he say, he had too much feet for his shoes. I can't find the CD right now, so I'm paraphrasing, but Andy said that he bought a new pair of shoes for $1.25 and they hurt his feet. He cut a slit in them and then said "I wouldn't take a dollar and a quarter for that hole" Jeff Krentz -BigHead in Dee-Troit (O'Malley says "Put a Buckeye in your pocket!") _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wbmutbb.com/mailman/listinfo/wbmutbb_wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
