ok but the setting is what makes it 🔥

Progressive before its time, being both gender neutral and complimenting something the recipient has choice and control over!

Has an origin been sourced? I knew a guy who met his wife using that exact line

I specifically know the librarian I heard it from, but I'm not sure they'd want to be named publicly, and it was 25+ years ago, so I can't remember if they mentioned a source at the time.

Copy that. Just wondering for personal nerd purposes. The bouncer mentor I mentioned elsewhere in the thread got T-boned on his Harley by a drunk driver a few years ago. If I found the source of that line, I would be on the phone to his widow so fast 💔

I think that I saw it in WHAT'S BRED IN THE BONE by Robertson Davies (or another of his Cornish Trilogy)—published mid-eighties—may not be the source but establishes use at an earlier date

My friends and I used it all the time when I was a teen in the '90s.

truth! also direct and concise, has many things going for it

Yup! I didn't originate it, but it was adopted relatively widely in short order.

(This may or may not have fed my focus on my shoe game as an adult) 🤣

best possible outcome!

Ha! And sometimes it'd just be "nice shoes" followed by waggly eyebrows & pointed look to bed/sofa/anywhere remotely useful for horizontal tango....