THANK YOU so much to the boys over at Division Street (photo courtesy of them) for so poignantly highlighting a recent downtown trend that nearly made me regurgitate my appetizers the other evening when I too saw them more than once in one night. Here’s the thing, I’m not into finance people, see: The House grilling Lehman CEO, Dick Fuld, for all the reasons why. Why in the world would anyone want to emulate the already awful, bland style of a soulless demographic like this? Yes, I’m scathing, but as I write this the stock market opened and fell another 600 points in the first few moments -do you know who this effects? You and I and our 401(k)s and it doesn’t touch the kind of people who wear these shoes (and this whole tanking economy is all the fault of opportunistic finance people alike) just watch this as an exercise in de-programming you from ever gravitating towards these hideous shoes: