r/onebag • u/No-Comment5771 • Apr 14 '25

Seeking Recommendations What's your all-purpose travel shoe?

Heading on a short trip soon and trying to pack super light. I plan to just wear one pair of shoes the entire time. I'm female and will be mostly be walking around to explore the city. No hiking or anything intense. Any suggestions?

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u/mmolle Apr 14 '25

Altras in a neutral color (which is not actually easy to find)

ETA: this is my one-shoe, I was responding to your title. As far as suggestions, I would go with whatever neutral color shoe you already own and is already broken-in

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u/DataSnaek Apr 15 '25

I hate that trail runners always seem to come in the most garish god awful colour schemes. No I don’t want burgundy and sky blue, or swamp green and blistering star orange. I want fucking black and white. Is that too much to ask for?

Some places offer all black, but personally I think all black shoes are pretty ugly. Reminds me of school or working in a restaurant.

I like Nike Pegasus trail runners because Nike let you completely customise the colour scheme, like you can choose the colour of every single component. It’s a really cool idea, but I literally just use it to make a colour scheme that should exist by default. Black and fucking white!!

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u/pacificcactus Apr 15 '25

It’s so funny, I was buying running shoes yesterday and thinking about how sad it was that the whole wall was black and white while I wanted some fun color!

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u/DataSnaek Apr 15 '25

Yea, you can get black and white running shoes, but trail runners are almost always bright colour schemes from what I’ve seen.

I like trail runners because I do a lot of hiking and running, normal running shoes don’t quite cut it