The silk noil was slightly nubby with random flecks in an off-white colour.

I am aspiring to leave the nest.

And one can only wonder what Paul Sperry (the stalwart New Englander who invented the Sperry Top-Sider in 1935 by joining a novel nonslip, nonscuff white rubber sole to a moccasin upper) would think to hear Tommy Fazio, the men’s fashion director at Bergdorf Goodman, declare on his cellphone from the Milan men’s wear shows last week, “It’s all about a boat shoe.”

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