Few things bug me more than a grown up wearing jeans and running shoes. If you are older than nineteen, have enough cash to put clothes on your back, and not about to run a 5K, wear the right pair of shoes. If you are walking through the airport in jeans, a golf shirt and Nikes, everything about you, no matter what you have accomplished, no matter who you went to bed with last night, screams "dork." Amplified if you have your cell phone clipped to your belt and your t-shirt tucked in.

And to be clear, I'm not saying you need to turn into Sarah Jessica Parker or anything. Frankly, most men can pretty much get by with four pairs of shoes. Classic black lace up dress shoes (though I prefer a slip-on because of how much time I spend in airports), a pair of trainers, a good pair of boots, and a pair of casual shoes. A shoe to wear when you aren't at work and not in the gym. Any pair of white or black canvas sneakers should do nicely.

Personally, I like to have two of them. One black. One white. My white pair is thrashed from a year's worth of abuse. Sand does bad things to pretty much everything. So I ordered some new kicks today. Sure, Converse may be timeless, but I just can't get used to the rubber capped toe. I'm more of a Vans guy - probably because my mom refused to let me get a pair of the classic checkered sneakers when I was eleven.

I think I'm over the checkers, but I just ordered a new pair of the Core Classics .

If I'm not barefoot, I'm probably in these.

If you look down right now and see yourself wearing jeans and running shoes, seriously, spend the forty bucks. Even Mr. Rogers had more fashion sense than that.