How Suede It Is!

November, 1989

Elvis may have sung praises to blue-suede shoes as the Fifties drew to a close, but in this, the last season of the Eighties, suede's still hot, but the color is brown. Brown-suede shoes are showing up in everything from casual moccasin styles to the businesslike wing-tipped oxford. (The British have been wearing brown-suede wing tips and cap toes with dark business suits for years.) Loafers with crepe or rubber soles go well with the kind of hefty corduroy trousers and heavy knit sweaters we'll...