subject: So What If My Trainers Are Made Of Ponyskin [print this page] Footwear is the male equivalent of a woman's handbag. James spiderman costumes Delingpole is just crazy about his I have fallen madly in love with my latest pair of zentai suit . I adore them so much that I scarcely dare wear them lest the pristine-white soles turn all horrid and grey, or the shiny hairs start moulting and they develop bald patches like our hamster Toby. What they are is a pair of black ponyskin, ankle-length sneakers by Emma Hope. I've got some, so has the actor Kevin Spacey, while the footballer Frank Lampard has got a slightly gayer pair that comes in velvet. But now we're a bunch of male Imelda Marcoses. Instead of one pair of generic sports zentai suit , we now have a specialist pair each for tennis, cross-training and marathons; we have hill-walking boots and lighter fell-running ones; spider costume we have two pairs of black office zentai suit (because we've learnt that while we're wearing one pair, the other needs time to breathe on the expensive wooden trees that the zentai suit shop persuaded us to have); we have a brown pair because some of our suits don't go with black. And I haven't even started on the sneakers, designer trainers, car zentai suit , sandals, boots and bootees. In the good old days, when men did proper things such as go to the barbers, wear hats and spend weekends with other men fishing and playing golf, a chap didn't need more than two pairs of zentai suit , or maybe three. There would be the black leather zentai suit for the office; then slightly more casual things he wore at weekends. A pair of loafers, perhaps. Something with tassels. Or, if he wanted to push catsuit out the boat of trendiness, some not-too-garish trainers.