https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/nostalgic-post-london-fog-shoes-from-the-80s Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:16:03 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/nostalgic-post-london-fog-shoes-from-the-80s#post-1931493 Mon, 25 Jun 2018 02:58:00 +0000 Jeanie 1931493@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I remember these shoes.&nbsp; I think we called them Earth Shoes but I don't know why.&nbsp; I didn't ever have a pair. I didn't know London Fog even made shoes! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/nostalgic-post-london-fog-shoes-from-the-80s#post-1931187 Sun, 24 Jun 2018 10:35:14 +0000 rachylou 1931187@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Gosh! Also never heard of London Fog shoes. I do remember Wallabees, but they were not a trend in my area in the 80s. They were a shoe for grown men. That’s so interesting! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/nostalgic-post-london-fog-shoes-from-the-80s#post-1931178 Sun, 24 Jun 2018 10:19:11 +0000 Anonymous 1931178@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I agree the style looks familiar in my past too but also agree that I never knew London Fog made anything other than raincoats because that is the only thing I ever saw in stores of that brand.<br /> Those shoes were comfy </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/nostalgic-post-london-fog-shoes-from-the-80s#post-1931135 Sun, 24 Jun 2018 03:35:41 +0000 cjh 1931135@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Speaking of construction boots. I wore them in college, high tops, yellow leather with brown leather trim and shoestrings. They went well with my high waisted, wider legged jeans, some with carpenter styling, and skinny ribbed turtlenecks. Hmmm, and I thought chukka boots were too mannish. Well, thanks for the memory fun! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/nostalgic-post-london-fog-shoes-from-the-80s#post-1931103 Sun, 24 Jun 2018 00:15:42 +0000 Style Fan 1931103@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I remember those.&nbsp; I didn't have a pair but I have owned desert boots.&nbsp; I wore pumps in the 80s to work but I do not remember what I wore in my other life.&nbsp; Probably because I didn't have much time off work. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/nostalgic-post-london-fog-shoes-from-the-80s#post-1931080 Sat, 23 Jun 2018 21:21:41 +0000 DonnaF 1931080@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I owned Clark’s Wallabees in the early ‘70s. The crepe soles got slippery in the rain, but otherwise I remember them to be fairly comfortable. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/nostalgic-post-london-fog-shoes-from-the-80s#post-1931046 Sat, 23 Jun 2018 18:34:30 +0000 JAileen 1931046@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I had Clarks Wallabees in 1971. I went to Europe with my parents and I wore them everywhere. I’m not sure if I even took a second pair of shoes. They felt like buttah.</p> <p>ETA: They cost under $25. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/nostalgic-post-london-fog-shoes-from-the-80s#post-1931010 Sat, 23 Jun 2018 15:16:21 +0000 LaPed 1931010@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Like Suz, I know them as Clarks Wallabees -- different from the Clarks Desert Boot, which has a plain toe rather than the stitched moccasin-style toe. I think the Desert Boots are only made in an ankle height, not this lower cut. The Wallabee comes in both, I think. Both have that distinctive crepe sole -- it may be the rubber that gives them their distinctive smell. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/nostalgic-post-london-fog-shoes-from-the-80s#post-1931006 Sat, 23 Jun 2018 14:57:01 +0000 K.M. 1931006@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>PS. I remember the smell of the soles... eventually it wore away. I loved that smell. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/nostalgic-post-london-fog-shoes-from-the-80s#post-1931004 Sat, 23 Jun 2018 14:55:33 +0000 K.M. 1931004@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><b>Like the Season</b>, I had never seen them in leather, only suede! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/nostalgic-post-london-fog-shoes-from-the-80s#post-1931002 Sat, 23 Jun 2018 14:53:15 +0000 Like the Season 1931002@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The London Fog shoes triggered a nostalgic memory for me. Here's the SAS version (still available), which my mother wore to work every day through the '80s. They will forever be "mom shoes" to me. (Love you, Mom!) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/nostalgic-post-london-fog-shoes-from-the-80s#post-1931001 Sat, 23 Jun 2018 14:48:11 +0000 K.M. 1931001@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><div><b>Suz</b>, I'm kind of excited that they are still available, and if you hadn't told me the name I wouldn't have known where to find! My guess is that the Brazilian London Fog brand (which perhaps is not the same as the international one) might have copied the Clarks...? <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>And the "desert shoes" were also popular, but I always liked the thicker-soled ones better. Late 80s and early 90s for me were all about chunky shoes. <b>Suz</b>, you are right, they were meant to balance the baggy tops and shoulder pads...</div><div><br /></div><div>In 1991 I got a variation on this shoe, a bit more rigid and a bit dressier, meant as a unisex shoe as <b>Angie</b> mentioned. I loved it. It was a splurge from a really good Brazilian brand and I was so happy and wore it with pants and longer shorts. One day a boy from my high school mocked me for shoes which he said looked like they belonged in a male construction workers' feet. I suppose the tides of fashion might have been changing then. Still I paid him no heed, and still wore and loved my chunky shoes for a long time. <br /></div></p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/nostalgic-post-london-fog-shoes-from-the-80s#post-1930988 Sat, 23 Jun 2018 14:26:20 +0000 cjh 1930988@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My daughters, grade school ages, wore white Keds with untied laces or without the laces in the late 80s with their baggy tapered jeans and Hammer pants, neon T-shirt’s, and home made (by me) girl-style mullet hair cuts. Drove me nuts that they wouldn’t tie their shoes!</p> <p>The suede shoes shown by Suz were popular with the preppy boys in my high school c. 1969-72 and we called them chukka boots. I’ve seen them and tried them on recently, but they feel too masculine on me. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/nostalgic-post-london-fog-shoes-from-the-80s#post-1930987 Sat, 23 Jun 2018 14:24:18 +0000 Angie 1930987@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I remember them too. Unisex. Fun to see them again. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/nostalgic-post-london-fog-shoes-from-the-80s#post-1930982 Sat, 23 Jun 2018 13:37:44 +0000 Suz 1930982@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><b>Joy,</b> the desert boots had a higher side. But you're right -- it was similar and made by the same companies.&nbsp;</p> <p>Younger people did wear the desert style for a while. Not in the 80s so much as 70s here, I think.... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/nostalgic-post-london-fog-shoes-from-the-80s#post-1930980 Sat, 23 Jun 2018 13:32:28 +0000 Anonymous 1930980@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think I remember them called desert boots. They looked very comfortable but I never had a pair. They will probably make a comeback. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/nostalgic-post-london-fog-shoes-from-the-80s#post-1930976 Sat, 23 Jun 2018 13:27:41 +0000 RobinF 1930976@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I remember that style being popular! Although I didn’t remember that London Fog made them. I always thought of London Fog as raincoats. I didn’t own any myself but agree that the style seems to be making a small comeback. They look really comfy. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/nostalgic-post-london-fog-shoes-from-the-80s#post-1930972 Sat, 23 Jun 2018 13:02:51 +0000 Suz 1930972@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Those look a bit like the old Clark's Wallabees. Which have made something of a comeback, if you want a pair! :)&nbsp;</p> <p>I'll bet they are comfortable.&nbsp;</p> <p>We didn't wear shoes like this in the 80s in Toronto. Adults did, though. My friends were more into pointy toed New Wave or chunky Punk styles, usually black -- at least in the early 80s. I also wore kitten heeled pumps sometimes (often vintage). &nbsp;As the decade wore on, I wore Docs with monk straps in cool weather, and higher heels (I think?) for dressy. Anything to balance the shoulder pads... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/nostalgic-post-london-fog-shoes-from-the-80s#post-1930968 Sat, 23 Jun 2018 12:43:50 +0000 K.M. 1930968@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><div>Purely for nostalgic reasons...</div><div><br /></div><div>These shoes were extremely popular when I was a teenager in Brazil in the late 1980s. I absolutely loved them and was thrilled when I finally got a pair. They were, of course, paired with tapered, baggy jeans. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Were they popular elsewhere in the world? <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>As I look at them now, part of me wonders why we liked them so much. And the other part (the nostalgic) of course wishes I had a pair. <br /></div> </p>