workshoes

The woman had apparently gone up another shoe size while her patent leather workshoes stayed exactly the same.

CODE MUSTARD • by Chris Allinotte 2009

On a late June school night my father decided to ride our little brown pony, the tips of his workshoes dragging the ground, two miles up and down country roads in a fine rain to the Bivouac.

DADDY'S GIRLS 2008

Tell that to me after I go to JC Penney and buy a new pair of workshoes, identical to the ones I bought last year and pay $21.34 more (and that was after a 10% discount coupon).

Economic Inequality Is Real (Bad) 2007

They ran to Caitlin at full speed, workshoes splatting hard against concrete.

Black Friday Patterson, James 1986

They ran to Caitlin at full speed, workshoes splatting hard against concrete.

Black Friday Patterson, James 1986

My Italian loafers are the only workshoes I have, so I got some sneakers to wear in the office.

NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS 2009

(Nevertheless, whenever the young philistines of Colonial Pines fired sarcastic barbs about her -weird" paintings, Boomer threatened to remove the plaque from their gums with his steel-toed workshoes, a promise they were sure he would keep.)

Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990

I can’t see his clothes; but I know he’ll have worn his perpetual uniform for work or ease—a narrow-brimmed brown felt pork-pie hat, khaki trousers and shirt, both starched and pressed like new cardboard; no tie but the collar button fastened and the collar wings pinned through neatly with a silver bar; suspenders, no belt and spotless hightop leather workshoes.

CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

I can’t see his clothes; but I know he’ll have worn his perpetual uniform for work or ease—a narrow-brimmed brown felt pork-pie hat, khaki trousers and shirt, both starched and pressed like new cardboard; no tie but the collar button fastened and the collar wings pinned through neatly with a silver bar; suspenders, no belt and spotless hightop leather workshoes.

CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988