I think these are called ‘tramline shoes’ but I am not entirely sure. They are a type of shoe that businessmen often wear. They taper off towards a point but get chopped off in a straight line before they reach that point. They are usually black.
Here is my specific shoe-spotting collection so far:
^ Exhibit A ^ A classic example, and the photo which began the collection.
Nb. The shoe in the top right of the photograph is not, unfortunately, a tramline shoe. Would I ever be so fortunate as to capture more than one example of the tramline shoe in a single photograph? Surely that is nothing more than a crazy pipe dream?
^ Exhibit B ^ The second spotted tramline shoe. Worn by a businessman with a long mane of silvery hair tied back into a ponytail and doing some coding. But hang on – what’s this?…
^ Exhibit C ^ Not noticed at the time, but later on downloading the photos to the computer, there was revealed another candidate lurking in this picture. Okay, it’s not the most extreme tramline shoe you will ever see, and the angle from which the photograph is taken does not help, but the tapering with the straight line across is definitely there.
However, the next tramline shoe photo did not take me by surprise and I appreciated it fully at the time:
^ Exhibit D ^ Yes, that’s right. I had been in the presence of three pairs of tramline shoes, at close range.
To Be Continued…
