What is an ‘approach’ shoe – and why should you be wearing them?

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Following an ankle injury, New Yorker Victor Netland needed the perfect pair of tailoring-friendly trainers; he found them on the feet of his friend Chad Senzel, a vintage clothing dealer. The shoes were the Mojito by Scarpa, a 90-year-old Italian mountaineering brand with little to no interest in fashion. But they spoke to Netland, a twentysomething men’s style blogger and fashion…