I don't know that as orange, I know it as camel, among other things.

And I like it 🙂

I feel like so many claim to hate orange/yellow tones because they think they're supposed to - it seems to be a bit of a fad.

I like them, too, and would call the shade tobacco.

They are at least as orange as the wood tones that people seem to hate. Which don't bother me. Many of these shoes seem to be less tan than the picture and more the color of a Parker House or 'King's Hawaiian Roll

‘…Hawaiian rolls’ Haha, Yes! Easily envisioned! Pal, you could get a side gig naming those Pantone paint shades!

It has definitely been a somewhat recent trend for men to wear that color shoe with blue pants/suits. As Pal said, back in the day it was black shoes with a blue suit. Times change. I do like the look, although I admit the first time I saw it, I was surprised.

I would guess that most men like any color of wood. Especially if a woman suggests painting it.

Yes, that color is trendy right now. My husband goes to work every day in a suit and he frequently wears shoes that color. I think of it as "cognac" color, and cognac couches and chairs have been more popular for a while now, too.

I am no fashion expert, but I have always preferred brown shoes rather than black with a blue suit. Even orangey-brown.

But can all you guys please go back to wearing full-length pants? I hate this trend.

These are what I would call a true cognac color shoe although the second shoe, while it is high quality lacks a certain depth to the leather that comes with repeated polishing. And if they are not taken care of at all, they get lighter especially on the toe.

I’ve recently read that the brown shoes with blue suits fad is dead. Guess the guys in Philly didn’t get the word.

chicago didnt get the memo, either, bbstx. Two of my sons-in-law still wear that combo. They look sharp!

My house has its original 1910 "orange" oak floors. I can't say they've every bothered me (or think about them all that much), so I shrug off the disparaging comments. Especially since the advantage of them is that if you ever need to replace or extend flooring, you will be able to get them in the same wood, color, and width (unlike Brazillian cherry or scraped anything or LVP).

I will confess to not being a fan of orange oak cabinets, but then there's a lot of it in you direct field of view in the typical kitchen.

People can be weird about both trends and colors.

I think I am a little biased about the combo, which I don't think is all bad, because I tend to wear a lot of black as well, and wear almost exclusively black or navy sneakers, and black shoes. I have one cognac pair and one brown pair, but they do not get a lot of wear because I don't wear a lot of earth toned clothing.

Almost everybody's shoes when I was in High School were the King's Hawaiian rolls color. Probably because of style and limited selection. Except for the guys who wore a heel, which was not a whole lot.

I generally avoid earth toned clothing, but my husband loves it. I assume it's because we have different skin/hair coloring and those choices suit us. My region is so casual we don't see many men in dress shoes, even at work. In my home, I do like some leather and I do like wood but tend to avoid yellow or orange wood, preferring more red. Of course I just bought a house with tons of yellow wood (pine trim, bamboo floors, pine beadboard, nice quality (maybe rift sawn) oak cabinets. Unsurprisingly I'm struggling with wall paint colors.

A generation ago I sold shoes. We used to have men’s shoes in black, navy, and cognac/ oxblood. Navy completely went away and cognac faded to being 10% of the brown options. Tan/ camel started coming in strong and is now probably 3/4 of the non black.

For most of the 1970s, up to 1980 I wore shoes pretty much like this. These are Buster Brown and although these are baby shoes, they basically made this same shoe for boys and girls and men in adult sizes apparently for decades.

This was the only shoe that I could get that fit where we lived, and it didn't matter too much because people in town went to one of two shoe stores and bought shoes more or less like this for their kids or went to the dime store and bought some really cheap shoes. Even many of the girls in the catholic school wore shoes like this with their uniforms.

All in all it was a pretty unsophisticated place and unlike today, people had No exposure to fashion outside their sphere unless someone in their family got a fashion magazine and most people's families did not have money to spend on fashion magazines.

My father used to go into the closest city (3 hours) for continuing ed or something and one time my mom asked him to go to a department store and get me some pants and a couple of shirts, and I think where he was staying Saks was down the block so he went in and got me some Lacoste (it was Izod then, I think) pants, polos and socks to wear to school. (We had only blazers or vests, and guidelines on what our pants could be, and some polo shirts. (Which I could not wear to school.) I remember my mother telling him he did not need to buy me clothing from Saks to wear to school, he knew where the Kaufmann's was, he could have not just bought it at Saks because it was closest.

I knew what Izod-Lacoste was, and I knew what Polo was, but everyone else thought that my Izod-Lacoste clothing was Garanimals because of the Lacoste logo.

Saw a Philly weather or sports reporter (I forget which) with a blue suit and orange shoes. It's all I noticed of his segment.