white shoes expose mistakes real quickly, besides i have a hard enough time keeping my black shoes clean, cant imagaine what it would be like having white shoes

Our schools wears black shoes. Our uniforms have dark navy blue pants. Not much of a contrast, eh? Well too bad we wear nice shiny white spats. Oh my goodness, it looked so bad during the first week and band camp. To add on to this, out school is high step (except for drumline) so people who are out of step really stick out. Thankfully, our BD would personally yell at you after practice if you were out of step, so by our 2nd or 3rd game everyone was in step.

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It sounds to me that you might be describing Plumes, idk though.

Theres 1 school in our county with white shoes, and their uniform is green. So their shoes usually end up green from walking in the grass.

so it all matches lol. haha that's Webmaestro's alma mater if I'm not mistaken.

Has anyone seen a group that isn't professional using something besides black or white?

We use black, which was lucky two years ago in San Diego for concert percussion when one of our players lost half his uniform (the bottom half; we share the pants and shoes for marching and concert - I'm not sure if everyone does this) and had to buy nice shoes to wear in place of them. I think it would've been a little harder to find white shoes.

I know what 628 means about white shoes exposing mistakes; a school that is the home of a rival football team of ours always brings their band to the last game. They wear white shoes, and it was painfully obvious if anyone ever got out of step (which, luckily, was not often).

My school does black. I myself prefer black because it's harder to notice mistakes and looks clean from the stands. But when we get in formation for Uniform check, we get a grade for if our shoes are polished, and our uniforms are hithced and stiched right. You can get points taken off at contest for cruddy uniforms .

White shoes show up much better on the field. If your band has a lousy step style, I pray for you that they wear black.

We wore white at Madison Central and Eastern. At Central, we made it look good. At Eastern, not so much. Too many people were hung over, drunk, or stoned for the game for step style to survive.

We wear white uniforms with white shoes to football games and black uniforms with black shoes at competitions.

We wear black shoes. We manage to get those dirty, so I can only imagine how bad it would be if we wore white.

I think that black shoes would show the dirt more than the white shoes.