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Would you wear it? The new, < $200 Allen Edmonds Dress Boot

November 24, 2013 By Joe | Heads up: Buying via our links may result in us getting a commission. Also, we take your privacy rights seriously. Head here to learn more.

Allen Edmonds McAdam Dress Boot – $197.00 ($295)

Who put the Cronmok in a suit?

This new(?) dress boot option just showed up on the Allen Edmonds website… yet it’s not listed under the “new arrivals.” They’re part of the just launched Allen Edmonds Black Friday Sale, which combines their recent boot & bourbon offers with a few other styles (including the awfully smart looking “Hale” oxford. Perforations without the pinked edges? Looks nice). Now at under $200, is the McAdam a reasonably priced alternative to the super expensive Fifth Street Boot?

 

wing differences

Notice how the sweep of the McAdam’s wingtip doesn’t reach as far back on the side as the McAllister. Also, it appears there’s less room at the toe for the Medallion on the McAdam boot.

What about the wingtip on this one? It’s just like the Cronmok, and the wing doesn’t pull nearly as far back as on the McAllister. With it being a true-oxford, this leaves a bit more smooth leather no-man’s land on the sides. Also, there looks to be much less room for the toe medallion compared to their other full brogues. Sorta takes some of the sleekness away from it.

But it’s under $200, ships + returns free, and the description says it’s got a rubber tap sole. That’ll come in handy now that ice and snow are starting to show up on the walkways for many. It’s a H. Ford paint job special. You can get in any color you’d like… as long as it’s black. So would you? Or does this model seem to be a little lost in-between the slick 5th street and the more casual Dalton? Leave it all in the comments.

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Comments

  1. Friðrik Tryggvason says

    November 24, 2013 at 3:46 PM

    If it did not cost 60 bucks plus import duties for me to get them here, I would snatch them up.

  2. goldushapple says

    November 24, 2013 at 4:21 PM

    What are these super business conservative environments that don’t include funeral homes?

  3. Keith says

    November 24, 2013 at 4:54 PM

    The Fifth Street is just way more slick. It does look like someone’s tinkering with genetic engineering over at AE. It’s too much of a Frankenboot for my taste.

  4. rsq789 says

    November 24, 2013 at 5:17 PM

    Brown may be more fashionable these days (in the US at least), but black is always workable and preferable for many in a business environment. It’s nowhere near the same situation as black on a suit.

  5. Greg_S says

    November 24, 2013 at 6:34 PM

    Hm, for a boot on the more casual end, I prefer the Dalton. If you need a dress boot, the fifth street really just seems to be where it’s at.

  6. danshobiz says

    November 25, 2013 at 5:25 AM

    In brown I’d say maybe, but in black I just can’t get the image of the grandmother on the Little Rascals out of my head.

  7. Mike N says

    November 25, 2013 at 6:11 AM

    you ruined it for me

  8. zaphod beeblebrox says

    November 25, 2013 at 7:05 AM

    yup, no problem.

  9. Fraser says

    November 25, 2013 at 8:41 AM

    Funny, despite all the extra room for details the boot has vs. the oxford, the broguing just makes the boot look too busy and awkward. I think it’s the way the broguing follows the eyelets up the boot. I wouldn’t wear it.

  10. Todd says

    November 25, 2013 at 8:56 AM

    Personally I love them but I’d like to see more colors.

  11. Samuel says

    November 25, 2013 at 9:27 AM

    I agree. There were something that was a bit much, and I think you’ve nailed it. Some broguing on the toe and plain going up, I’d seriously consider it for sub-$200.
    But I do have some black J&M dress boots that I wear in less-than-ideal conditions, and those things are my 2nd most comfortable shoe (out of 12). The only thing more comfortable than my dress boots are more casual wingtips with rubber soles.

  12. Chris W says

    November 25, 2013 at 11:01 AM

    Would I?

    Already ordered!

  13. southy says

    November 25, 2013 at 11:34 AM

    I may never understand the whole wingtip-boot thing.

  14. drocpsu says

    November 25, 2013 at 11:45 AM

    I think they are pretty nice looking boots. I also noticed them in the sale listings and wondered what they were, (since I didn’t remember seeing them before). On an unrelated note, what’s the deal with some of the links in the post?

    http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-4025845-11371405?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftracking.searchmarketing.com%2Fclick.asp%3Faid%3D520006330000014543&cjsku=_7715++++D+090

  15. Mark Johnson says

    November 25, 2013 at 12:19 PM

    I think you’re overthinking it a little. That boot is sharp.

  16. random-adam says

    November 25, 2013 at 1:14 PM

    It’s lovely; if it came stock in AA widths and I didn’t already have one MTO boot order in with Allen Edmonds, I’d strongly consider it — but all that perfing on what’s otherwise a black formal-ish boot kind of confuses me.

    I remain steadfast in my hope that maybe someday they’ll create a proper balmoral boot, perhaps with a perforated cap toe but otherwise austere stitching, maybe black calf with black suede above that horizontal stitching line… something I can break out with that peak-lapel three-piece to subtly crank everything up to eleven. Something like this from Carmina: http://gezzaseyes.tumblr.com/post/43477038309/suede-calf-balmoral-boots-by-carmina-via

    I’ll keep dreaming.

  17. jfeld says

    November 25, 2013 at 1:26 PM

    More like Patch McAdams, am I right?

  18. Matt says

    November 25, 2013 at 3:50 PM

    Yep. I’d wear it. Easily. Alas, living in LA and working in a physical therapy clinic does not lend itself to boots, even in the winter.

  19. goldushapple says

    November 26, 2013 at 2:01 PM

    I guess that depends on the firm one is working at (since I too work in finance with experience on the east coast now currently in the Midwest) and what is deemed ‘super conservative’ to the wearer.

  20. RyanMT says

    November 27, 2013 at 8:14 AM

    Medicine. Physicians (esp. residents and med students) are expected to dress very conservatively. Brown shoes are “risky.”

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