If you had to choose 3 shoes and no more, are these versatile enough?
Minimizing your collection means identifying redundancies and prioritizing versatility. How do these three pairs sound?
1. Ecco Turn GTX Boots
2. Ecco Soft 7
3. Nike Trail
What's your top 3?
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If you like them, they are good imo. 3 shoes are going to be very different depending on how you dress. If these three work with the other clothes you have then yes they are fine, they dont i would change it up
If you only have two feet aren't three shoes redundant?
the question is why would you want to minimize your shoe collection?
whether the answer is spatial considerations, optimizing number of clothes or an intentional culling due to one's lifestyle, that will merit different answers
it's also 100% dependent on your style and taste. I wouldn't purchase any of your options because I wouldn't wear any of them.
I used to wear a lot of Ecco shoes. Nowadays, I don't like how they look, and they aren't particularly durable.
I have some past purchases I wouldn't necessarily make now, but I don't sell them because they work with my style sometimes. For example, I wouldn't buy iron rangers again even though I got them for cheap at a factory sale, but I still like having a work boot in rotation sometimes.
I would just accumulate shoes over time rather than buy 3 in one go. That might still mean you end up with three pairs of shoes, but I wouldn't limit yourself, within reason
I think the three you listed aren't going to be very versatile though
Not that you necessarily need to do this, but you could probably get one shoe that does what both of those ecco shoes do but better
Feel free to call me dumb but any situation where I'd wear those ecco shoes I would rather wear a wallabee or a penny loafer or something similar, weather permitting.
I guess the closest I come to this exercise is when I travel. Then my 3 pairs are probably running shoes, New Balance 99x sneakers, and brown penny loafers or derbies.
as far as im concerned running shoes dont even count. I have a pair but theyre purely utilitarian and id never try to wear them with any outfit of mine
if i'm engaging the question seriously it's a pair of tevas and two identical pair of lug sole loafers. tevas for hiking, the two loafers so i can rotate them but they take care of nearly all use cases i can consider.
that's built on an honest assessment of my lifestyle (read: i'm not running or going to a gym to work out and i don't have a lot of risk of trudging through snow banks to warrant boots) and tastes (pro-loafers). there's no universal answer to either of those
Engaging seriously, I'd have a pair of brown Dr Martern 1461 and some GATs and maybe some Salomon xt6 parchment converse 70s for gym and casual use. This discounts a pair of Hoka Mach 6 for running and specialized sworks torch for cycling.
When I travel I basically only take margiela GATs and either a chunky derby or a black beater boot like a pair of blundstones
Probably if I could only have 3 shoes it would be GATs, black derbies, and my running shoes