<p>Thanks for doing the investigative work, kind of hard to call 1-800 numbers from Iraq :)</p>
<p>I'm going to order the leather ones from AAFES online, I'll just keep my shinies for second year I guess. Are we supposed to show up wearing the low quarters on R-day, with our civilian clothes? Or wear tennis shoes and just have the low quarters with us?</p>
<p>Last year they showed up wearing the low quarters. It was recommended and it saved changing time. Besides it looks great. ;)</p>
<p>I've had my low quarters for about a month now and they're getting very wrinkled on the toe already, so i bought some shoe trees today; does anyone know if we can take these to Beast? Also, should we show up with our low quarters shined or not?</p>
<p>GO ARMY! BEAT NAVY!</p>
<p>Okay, here's my take and experience on the low quarters. You should get shoe trees with all your stuff at USMA, if not the C-store sells them. Showing up with them slightly shined may help, but if they are stellar you will STAND OUT and the last thing you want to do on R-day is stand out. KNOW how to shine your shoes, and teach your buddies who don't know how--because that's the first thing you need to learn "cooperate and graduate" and "if one of you is wrong, you're all wrong" if "all of you are wrong" then at least you're all on the same page and it's better than having a few right (hope that made sense). So, get the low quarters, put your good base on them, but DON'T show up with them looking great already. A good base will allow you to get them up to where they need to be when you and your squad are ready to get to that level.
I'm gonna give my bro and some of his friends he's met that are also headed to USMA for 2010 a little West Point 101...if you can find someone to do the same for you, it might help.</p>
<p>Wearing my combat boots to school... Hahah...I have been wearing hiking boots for the last 5 years to school so its not that big of a deal....And I wear fatigues around the neighborhood on a regular basis (been doing that for years too) But I live in a little hick town squashed in between suburbs and what not.</p>
<p>Sketch....</p>
<p>so i guess bringing a heat gun is out of the question ;)???</p>
<p>never got that to work</p>
<p>heatgun, lincoln wax, and love = black mirrors</p>
<p>Hey...Current cadet says buy the leather shoes. Do not come in the Coraframs. They are a privledge for the upperclassmen, so you won't wear them until your yearling year anyways. Learn to shine them. There are instructions on the back of the Kiwi can. Edge dress them daily, the protective coat they build up over a long period of time is quite sturdy. Just to stress, one last time, don't buy the shiny shoes.</p>
<p>crapppp...</p>
<p>As for heat guns...why not? I had a New Cadet in my company last year who had one...I was amused at the process, but didn't really care. On the other hand you'll be lugging it around all day. Up to you.</p>
<p>I hate those damn lowquarters. I have massive, silver-dollar size lumps on the back of my heels--big calcium deposits from the rubbing. It's so bad I've rubbed holes through the back of my combat boots and through my tennis shoes.</p>
<p>I went to Rickenbacker yesterday to order my shoes and the assistant there suggested that I opt for the a wide shoe when it came to the low quarters. When you look at how the shoe is designed (fairly sharp toe), this makes sense. She claimed that this is how she's always sold them to the Reserve guys, and she'd been there for 5 years. Something to think about when putting your orders in.</p>