tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post1675230558872597165..comments2024-03-26T00:10:40.751-04:00Comments on Reggie Darling: My Birthday BucksReggie Darlinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04044215790585354363noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-86185536674057977962011-01-25T19:32:01.081-05:002011-01-25T19:32:01.081-05:00Reading this entry brings wonderful memories of my...Reading this entry brings wonderful memories of my older brother, Tom, who also taught me about Grownup Life and how to approach it. Thank you for that.<br /><br />As for your question about bucks, I'm a visitor from a different universe. As much as I enjoy reading about yours, no one in my childhood was aware of their existence, and today ... I'll just say no one wears them, and leave it at that.Lyndahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03788610902096354682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-42057970752127093302010-07-08T07:59:01.079-04:002010-07-08T07:59:01.079-04:00Staircase Witch: Tell your husband that white buck...Staircase Witch: Tell your husband that white bucks are very versatile and look good with jeans, in addition to the more expected trouser he may be thinking of. Thanks for your comment.<br /><br />Ancient: I am glad that some still maintain such standards. I shall have to direct my manservant to this link.<br /><br />HFK: Thank you, Reggie tries to sneak bits of amusement in his essays when possible, otherwise he is afraid they would be deadly dull.<br /><br />Gourmet Mom: Here's how Reggie wore his bucks this past weekend: Saturday: navy Lacoste, khaki shorts, sockless bucks; Sunday morning to church: gray and white seersucker jacket, blue gingham shirt, stone-colored khakis, ribbon belt, and pale yellow socks with bucks; lost the jacket and rolled up my sleaves for lunch alfresco at a nearby golf and tennis club; Sunday evening at large benefit dinner dance: linen jacket, white BTOC shirt, tropical weight gray flannels with red/white/blue striped ribbon belt, dark red socks with bucks. In general, if I wear socks with my bucks, I wear socks that are lighter than my trousers but I made an exception for evening on Sunday in honor of Independence Day.<br /><br />Frecky: I owe it all to you, dear brother.<br /><br />Magnaverde: Goodness me, what I would give to have a gander at your shoe collection!<br /><br />DAM: Break the mold and dare to wear bucks more often and with a broader wardrobe of options. They are a remarkably versatile shoe.<br /><br />PD: What a good idea, thank you.<br /><br />Ryan: I am happy to email you a better picture of Buddy, I mean Judge Hotaling, if you'd like. Please email me. And yes, I'm familiar with Outcast Lady, a remake of the Green Hat by Harold Arlen. Funny coincidence, isn't it?<br /><br />ddu: In certain circles Atticus Finch is a role model, worth emulating!Reggie Darlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04044215790585354363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-63033630226079424672010-07-07T17:51:23.365-04:002010-07-07T17:51:23.365-04:00Bucks are glorious. I have tried in vain to persua...Bucks are glorious. I have tried in vain to persuade my son to wear them, but he refuses rather more adamantly than is necessary, arguing that he would look like Atticus Finch. Perhaps when he is twenty-one....dduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10848294529339729099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-28784094949370181912010-07-06T20:24:46.295-04:002010-07-06T20:24:46.295-04:00My father used to wear white bucks regularly, but ...My father used to wear white bucks regularly, but you couldn't pay me to wear them - at least not out in public. They're just not my style. I do admire that sort of tradition though, and on rare occasions I still wear my decades-old "earth shoes". They're ugly as sin but have true sentimental value for me! I'm also probably the only one old enough to even remember this particularly unattractive footwear:)<br /><br />While I'm here I'd like to sincerely thank you for publishing this blog, Reggie. Last week I accidentally ran across it while looking for old-house-related blogs, and over the last few days I've spent a good deal of time reading through your archives. Very interesting and entertaining stuff there! Oddly enough, I think I may be distantly related to your Mr. Hackett! One of my ancestors, namely an Elsie Houghtaling Bogardus from Coxsackie, NY, had a brother named Jacob who was born in 1799 and is buried in East Nassau, NY. On his tombstone the name is spelled "Jacob Houghtling" (without the "A") but I think he may still be the same "Honorable Jacob Hotaling" depicted in your portrait. That surname was changed over the generations and has been spelled a million different ways. In fact it was often spelled completely differently by members the same immediately family. In any case, small world isn't it?<br /><br />Lastly, please pardon this jarring non-sequitur but I just have to ask this...are you and your spouse familiar with a 1934 Constance Bennett movie called Outcast Lady?Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12183744621319137043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-21143940290915555222010-07-06T19:18:36.892-04:002010-07-06T19:18:36.892-04:00I love white bucks! I have a great pair that I don...I love white bucks! I have a great pair that I don't wear often enough. I'll be hitting them with a buck back soon and taking them out for a stroll!Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10336364393641964718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-87237316285473302552010-07-06T15:45:44.417-04:002010-07-06T15:45:44.417-04:00My husband wore white bucks as part of his sailing...My husband wore white bucks as part of his sailing team uniform. They now live in the back of the closet, no matter how many times I tell him how great they'd look. Oh well.<br /><br />What a lovely tribute to your brother.Patsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02840629057159581688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-1809027361199266832010-07-06T15:40:33.830-04:002010-07-06T15:40:33.830-04:00I did a post last summer on a fellow I met at a pa...I did a post last summer on a fellow I met at a party who was wearing linen shorts and white bucks. he told me that he now cleans his using one of those Mr. Clean magic erasers.Pigtown*Designhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13775512940294150252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-49006122856387742252010-07-06T13:06:23.366-04:002010-07-06T13:06:23.366-04:00I do like my white bucks. I have hard time though,...I do like my white bucks. I have hard time though, much like your reader of wearing them with many things other than my seersucker suit. While I know many would say it's cliche or costume, but i'm from the South, I live here and it's natural to me.DAMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06242691304393481987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-48952515298493545682010-07-06T10:14:44.041-04:002010-07-06T10:14:44.041-04:00Unless I'm going to something that requires a ...Unless I'm going to something that requires a dark, discreet suit & the shoes that go with it, I don't wear anything but white shoes in the summer. Most of the time it's a pair of plain white bucks--a cleaner or dirtier pair, depending on what I'm doing & where I'm going--but there are also saddle shoes in white suede, one pair with a tan saddle, one with charcoal, a pair of pointy-toed double monk-straps in white calfskin and somewhere, there's also a pair of brogues in the shaggiest white suede I've ever seen, which I've only worn a few times because they're a bit much, even for me, and that's coming from a guy who spends the summer in seersucker pants. I don't even own a pair of jeans.<br /><br />These days, I'm the only one in my family who dresses like this, but somewhere there's a snapshot of my parents as newlyweds, and in it, my dad is wearing a bright plaid shirt, red pants & white bucks. He looks totally cool. I'm not sure how well that look went over in Danville, Illinois, but it must have not been a success, because I not only don't recall ever seeing him dressed like that, I don't even remember those things hanging in his closet, and, mixed in with the typical Danville wardrobe of a bunch of dark suits & ten-pound shoes, you'd think they'd have been easy to spot. At any rate, I have no conscious memory of that Beta version of my dad, but apprently, I imprinted on white shoes early on. I think I need to hunt up that picture & put it out.Room Temperaturehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01607564640695937012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-88939011062194681732010-07-06T07:45:26.441-04:002010-07-06T07:45:26.441-04:00Dear Reggie: A most excellent post. You may recal...Dear Reggie: A most excellent post. You may recall that "bucks" is a fond truncation of the original favored material for such footwear: "buckskin." In Our Modern Times, one is more likely to encounter bucks made of humbler cowhide suede but they wear nicely just the same. Fondly, your brother, Frecky.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-7314535440654765782010-07-06T01:22:58.034-04:002010-07-06T01:22:58.034-04:00I love the look, and indeed my guy has white bucks...I love the look, and indeed my guy has white bucks that have seen a few years through their soles!<br /><br />Karena<br />Art by KarenaKarenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05206642885608991170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-67035941901379597242010-07-06T01:06:02.725-04:002010-07-06T01:06:02.725-04:00My two young sons wear white bucks, but not my hus...My two young sons wear white bucks, but not my husband. I match their socks with their pant color - is this correct? I'd love to see them on my husband, but he's Italian and it's a very foreign concept - a look that he thinks is for WASPs only. Please describe an ideal outfit, including the bucks, so I can convince him...Gourmetmomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-84952421574435916612010-07-05T22:20:55.643-04:002010-07-05T22:20:55.643-04:00I love you, you crack me up in the very best way!I love you, you crack me up in the very best way!Hollywood forever, Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16608998958466509181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-58652626330593465632010-07-05T21:12:41.982-04:002010-07-05T21:12:41.982-04:00Great post. My current pair of white bucks shod me...Great post. My current pair of white bucks shod me for the trip home from Sibley Hospital with the newborn LFG and her mother. Ten years ago last Thursday.ADGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16612897500610475937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-55492476496723533292010-07-05T20:17:06.247-04:002010-07-05T20:17:06.247-04:00Overwhelmed that you have had them for 30 years-no...Overwhelmed that you have had them for 30 years-now I must think what have I had that long, clothingwise. Since I can't wear fantastic shoes anymore my niece has inherited. Do hope to see those bucks soon. pgtP.Gaye Tapp at Little Auguryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15115534755711063462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-42696796415172260382010-07-05T17:27:32.390-04:002010-07-05T17:27:32.390-04:00If you want to be hard-core, old school white shoe...If you want to be <i>hard-core, old school white shoe</i>, you need have your valet black the sides of the soles each and every morning.<br /><br />As in:<br /><br />http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RWS05a-NjgI/TCYyqVuEf_I/AAAAAAAAMk4/AVjlhp7AUHI/s1600/cartier_polo_prince_charles_dashing_suit.jpgThe Ancientnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-6910641394980304812010-07-05T16:53:58.892-04:002010-07-05T16:53:58.892-04:00I wore white bucks! Not as they were meant to be ...I wore white bucks! Not as they were meant to be worn, however (I am female!) We were required to wear them as part of our marching band uniform. I do remember that they were quite comfortable for marching long distances and yet looked quite spiffy at the end of the day. Some of my male classmates did, however, wear them casually, with khakis or jeans. <br /><br />My husband has always been a jeans-and-hiking-boots kind of man, and the modern science department, which has its own rigidly egalitarian sartorial code, does not look kindly on blazers, let alone white bucks, except among its most eccentric, emeritus members.<br /><br />I remember the brown/white shoe rule, however. My grandmother once remarked of my dollhouse family that they must be rather well-to-do, as they were all wearing brown shoes.Staircase Witchhttp://staircasewitch.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-3169995098641917752010-07-05T15:54:23.596-04:002010-07-05T15:54:23.596-04:00Yes- I have a pair which are languishing in the cl...Yes- I have a pair which are languishing in the closet. Thank you for reminding me. Time to drag them out and take them for spin: my own birthday is at the end of the week! DanielDaniel Shigohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12736080550398734909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-19786799978811155402010-07-05T15:23:15.258-04:002010-07-05T15:23:15.258-04:00Two men in my family own white bucks -my husband a...Two men in my family own white bucks -my husband and his father. Neither have worn them in quite some time. I think I'll encourage my husband to dig his out of the closet this summer...Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com