{"id":6781,"date":"2021-09-08T19:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T19:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=6781"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:22:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:22:40","slug":"opinion-shoes-of-a-different-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/opinion-shoes-of-a-different-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Shoes of a different color"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally published Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

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When I was a little kid and mom was teaching me colors, they were known as red, blue, yellow and variations thereof. I was taught yellow and blue mixed together resulted in green. If you mixed red and blue, you would get purple, and so on.<\/p>\n

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Never did she point to an off-brown shade of Crayola and say, \u201cthat\u2019s bourbon.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But maybe today she would have.<\/p>\n

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The Allen Edmonds Shoe Company has introduced a new shoe, the color of which is \u201cbourbon.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The color resembles the whiskey, so it makes you wonder. Did the shoemaker come up with the color and ask a clever marketing person to come up with a name for it? Or was the shoemaker drinking on the job and staring into his third glass of bourbon when he decided it would make a fine shoe color?<\/p>\n

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If he had been drinking gin, we may not have been treated to bourbon-colored shoes.<\/p>\n

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I probably won\u2019t get a pair of them.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m a little old-fashioned, and prefer cordovan \u2013 another made-up color name.<\/p>\n

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Cordovan is a \u201crich shade of burgundy,\u201d according to those who know more about color than I do.<\/p>\n

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Like bourbon, it also is the shade of an alcoholic beverage.<\/p>\n

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Its name comes from the Spanish city of Cordoba, where it was first made by the Visigoths in the 600s, according to Wikipedia.<\/p>\n

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I have a pair of Allen Edmonds cordovan shoes, and they are very nice. I am just about to make the last payment on them. I would get another pair, but Mrs. Doud doesn\u2019t want us to take out another second mortgage on the house at our age.<\/p>\n

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I seldom wear those shoes.<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t want them scuffed up or down at the heels.<\/p>\n

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I keep them polished, though, just in case I have to go to a funeral, or a wedding or the consecration of a bishop.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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