Michael wrote:
"Doug \"Woody\" and Erin Beal" wrote in message
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(b) Currently, they have proliferated it and made it something less
"special" or unique to aviation. Not that I wear khakis very often, but
when I do, I am proud to be a "brown shoe." Nowadays, the black shoes
have the option of wearing brown shoes too (though honestly most don't
for the same reason I don't wear the black ones)

Why are they given the option of wearing brown shoes now?!

It's been 30 years, now, but staff officers (I was 1655), must have had the
option -- whether officially or unofficially -- of wearing the color shoes
that fit in with the outift we were attached to. I definitely wore brown
shoes with khaki in Pensacola in the early '70s, at the urging of the SO
aviators in the division, even though my designator was not aviation.

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