Originally Posted by
superangrypenguin
Nails won't set them off, poorly made (sorry folks) dress shoes have a metal shank.
If you're in the US, consider buying shoes from
www.allenedmonds.com - they will be the last pair you buy for the rest of your life. Proper hand made shoes, and when you wear out the sole, you can get them recrafted.
You took the words right out of my mouth, word for word.
I can't tell you how many times security people have told me that it was the shoes that set off the alarm. I inform them that my shoes don't have a metal shank, which they laugh off with 'you obviously don't know very much about shoes; they ALL have a metal shank!'