Creative Recreation

The colourful, bold styles of Creative Recreation trainers start with designers who believe that men's footwear should move beyond the typical three-pair closet: dress shoes, work shoes and trainers. The footwear company transcends the staid styling of men's shoes while keeping the comfort. With outerwear-inspired details like quilting, leather pieces and rugged fixtures that hold up to even strenuous activity, Creative Recreation trainers aren't your average kicks.

The company's name is almost a dare -- "see what kinds of creative recreations you can come up with in these shoes" -- and the styles are just as daring. Creative Recreation canvas trainers combine elements of fine footwear such as burnished leather straps with athletic details like metal rivets and lacings for an eclectic style that stands out even when you're sitting down. Colour adds a new dimension, combining fresh shades like aqua, orange and acid green with denim blue, plaid and classic white. Creative Recreations shoes blend the practicality of canvas with high style for a look like nothing else.

Shoes must do more than look good, though; Creative Recreation canvas trainers, boots and loafers give you comfort as well as style. The shoes' playful sensibility belies a serious commitment to solid construction. Durable canvas and tooled leather uppers conceal shaped rubber soles that support your feet for all your creative recreations from hiking to biking to walking about town. Zips at the top make some styles even more versatile, converting them from high-top trainers to low-profile loafers in seconds.

Pick a design that's a study in contrasts -- think of elegant leather with a playful plaid or classic white canvas with colourful high-tech composite rubber -- and wear your pair with jeans for a casual weekend. More sedate styles don't have to be boring; a sophisticated tweed takes on a sense of fun with leather heels and toes, but still looks right for work. Creative Recreation makes men's footwear exciting, taking it beyond the usual dull choices -- brown or black, suede or leather, casual or formal -- in a genre-defying profusion of styles.

Step out of the ordinary in men's shoes from Creative Recreation.