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"Planning on flexing your sartorial muscles in the blog arena? You'll need to come packing. And no, we're not referring to your pocket square game. Every week on The Eye, we'll cover a basic term you need to know right now... before you get laughed off the internet.\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nSome things seem tailor-made for carefree spring afternoons with the temperature hovering at seventy degrees and the sun hanging high in the sky. For some people it's sandlot baseball games, for others it's backyard beers in weepy glass bottles, but for us, nothing says springtime like a pair of dirty bucks. Often the simplest of designs endure the longest, and bucks -- with their nearly one-hundred and fifty year history -- are no different.\n\nIt was around 1870 when some crafty cobbler first decided to sew together an oord style shoe out of a deerskin hide (hence the \"buck\" name), and ever since then bucks have filled that comfortable middle-ground between dress shoes and casual sneakers. At first, though, the buck was practically considered a sneaker because of it's prevalence on golf course and tennis courts. However there was one sporting event that afforded the buck a proper introduction to the United States.\n\nRussell Westbrook bucks up in the pages of GQ\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nAs the story goes, in the 1920's the ever-dapper Duke of Windsor was on a trip to the East Coast when he was spotted wearing white bucks at stops along his tour like polo matches. Being that the Duke was (and still is) an original trend-setter the buck naturally began occupying crucial real estate in the American footwear market from then on. Soon singer Pat Boone became their poster child and the '50s became the heyday of the buck as men began donning the shoes 24/7. The decade also solidified the buck as one of the most versatile shoes a man can buy and to this day you'd be hard pressed to find a more practical piece of footwear. What propelled the bucks back into the sartorial stream of consciousness was the \"red brick sole\" revival of the aughts, and a big reason you can now you can find them in every color under the sun. For our hard-earned money though, nothing looks better than the classic white version. Pair it with jeans on the weekend, navy chinos to smarten up your date outfit, or even with a grey suit at the office. Whatever you do, just make sure to beat 'em up a bit, because nothing packs more character than a pair of dirty bucks.\n\nJake Gallagher writes the blog Wax-Wane. He lives in Manhattan.\n\nRead more Dropping Knowledge:\n\n Dropping Knowledge: Breton Stripes\n\nDropping Knowledge: Supergas\n\nDropping Knowledge: The Baseball Cap"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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