100 Days of Shoes - Day 6 - Let's Go Ravenss!!!

Day 6 is full of more pride.  This time my focus is the Ravens.  In the past few months I have come to fall in love with Baltimore's infectious love for its sport teams.  This city is always on the edge of its seats when either the Orioles or the Ravens are playing.  You can sense the excitement in the air as game-time nears; and it absolutely becomes a ghost town while either team is playing.  Everyone is glued to their TV's or at a local bar decked out in some heinous outfit the is composed either entirely of bright orange or offensive purple...as I cannot bring myself to dress from head to toe in purple I find my own little ways to support the home town team as they inch closer and closer to the Super Bowl!

For the big game this afternoon I chose to wear my incredible Officine Creative Rugby shoes.  These shoes always get amazing reactions when I wear them out...and while they are heinously uncomfortable, this is one case where the fashion statement outweighs my need to be comfortable.  I was a very lucky boy to find these shoes during my travels through Italy.  You may notice that they shoes seem to be slightly different colors and to have worn differently; that is because they are legitimate game used rugby balls.  That's right, Officine Creative struck a deal with the European Rugby League to claim several of the game used balls from the Final match of the 2006 Championships.  They then turned those balls in to a very limited number of these amazing shoes!

When I head out in these shoes I try to keep the rest of my outfit fairly tame as to keep them being the center of attention...though we all know that "fairly tame" for me can mean A LOT.  For today's game I chose to go with some skinny Zara check pants (Spain), a vintage electric blue v-neck found at a thrift store in Lyon(France), and my always subtle brown leather button up AllSaints dress shirt.  I highly suggest that any skinny mildly fashion forward male gets one of their leather dress shirts.  It's always a great conversation piece at parties and is incredibly warm!

Even little Steve gets in on all the Ravens love...though she rocks purple much better than I do!

Lets go BIRDS!

Love. Sivad.