A brown lace-up oxford with a black heel and four sets of eyelets — formal footwear, not a sneaker. It represents men's shoes and shopping for them broadly, and turns up in "dressed to impress" contexts like job interviews, weddings, and other occasions that call for actual dress shoes.
What 👞 means
A brown shoe with a rounded toe and a black heel, four pairs of lace holes that are tied with brown lace. The 👞 Man's Shoe emoji represents typical work footwear, one that a man would choose to wear to other formal occasions too, such as; weddings, interviews, etc.
How and when to use it
- If you're texting someone to wear formal shoes for an occasion, considering their terrible sense of footwork, use 👞. For example, "It's a formal dress code. That applies to shoes as well, okay? 👞".
- A person's shoes tell more about them than any other fashion element. With that background in mind, 👞 would signify a sense of sophistication and presentability. For instance, "Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication 👞".
- If you're thinking of being literal and metaphorical at the same time, but with reference to your personal style, use 👞 (if these shoes are your style). Like, "If you really want to know what's going on with me, walk in my shoes 👞. My expensive shoes that I sold my soul to get" (shite, quite dark).
- While sharing reposts of brands (or of the products) that sell only shoes or a bunch of other things, use 👞 in the caption.
Other Names
- 👞 Brown Shoes
- 👞 Brown Leather Shoes
- 👞 Dress Shoe
- 👞 Formal Shoe
- 👞 Work Shoes
- 👞 Wedding Shoes
- 👞 Formal Dress Code
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › clothing
- Codepoints
U+1F45E- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:mans_shoe::shoe:GitHub · Slack- Keywords
- brown, clothes, clothing, feet, foot, kick, man, man’s, shoe, shoes, shopping
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 👞 Man’s Shoe or 🇺🇿 Flag: Uzbekistan?