Are Monk Straps Ideal For your Groom?

Many people believe that men have a smaller variety of shoes to choose from compared to women. It’s quite true: There aren’t as many different styles for men as there are for women. However, men still have hundreds of varied styles to choose from, which can keep you busy shopping, especially if you’re into shoes! One of these varied styles is the monk strap wedding shoe!

Monk strap shoes may be of one style, but you have never-ending choices in the variety of monk strap shoes available today.

The basic design of the monk strap wedding shoe is very similar to the monk strap shoe worn with formal wear, whereby a medium-wide strap is placed through a buckle after folding over the vamp. The vamp of your shoe is that part at your instep, just above your toes. It can also be considered to be the other part of the arch.

Even this simplistic design has a vast variety of styles which are enough to confuse and perplex you!

Let’s start with color! Men’s shoes are still considered funny in pink, green and yellow. However, there is a wider variety of available colors for men’s shoes now, as compared to two decades ago. Of course, black still takes the cake. A stylish look can be gained by going for a range of hues from light tan to deep burgundy. White is also ideal, when paired up with a suit of that color.

One feature of men’s wedding shoes that is vastly more varied than women’s shoes is the shape of the toes. For women: open-toed or closed shoes. For men: Closed toes for formal occasions. However, closed shoes for men exist in a greater and more eclectic range of styles than for women.

Let’s take a look at these styles. Men’s monk strap shoes can have rounded toes, making them look like Oxfords. Toes can also be square, which look a little like closed women’s shoes, depending on the severity of the style. Different toe styles lead to different degrees of comfort, depending on the shape of your feet. They also affect the complete appearance of the groom, and have a say in making the groom’s shoes similar or distinctive to those of his groomsmen.

Shoe ornamentation also comes in an eclectic variety.

Perforated wingtip toes in an Oxford shoe will never be seen on a monk strap, because these are distinctive of the Oxfords. Nonetheless, there is a vast range of tassels, braids, corrugated and seamless insteps, and other alternatives that help create all the varied styles available in monk trap wedding shoes today.

Another important choice for the monk strap shoes is: Single strap or double strap? This doubles your options! And if this isn’t enough, you still have to decide between low tops and high tops!

The end result of this is that with so many different styles, varieties and colors, you really cannot go wrong when picking out your wedding shoes! Don’t panic, look at all your options and decide. And that’s it!