Just wondered what people prefer these days.
Personally I find rubber soles are more comfortable plus more casual in appearance. I have chukka boots and derbies with leather soles but find they just feel a little too formal and dressy to wear everyday with jeans/ chinos. In exactly the same way that the average rubber sole feels not quite dressy enough for shoes I would wear to a formal attire wedding / funeral (there are no work occasions where I have to wear formal any more as I am past the stage in life where, hopefully, I will have to attend job interviews again!)
Personally I find rubber soles are more comfortable plus more casual in appearance. I have chukka boots and derbies with leather soles but find they just feel a little too formal and dressy to wear everyday with jeans/ chinos. In exactly the same way that the average rubber sole feels not quite dressy enough for shoes I would wear to a formal attire wedding / funeral (there are no work occasions where I have to wear formal any more as I am past the stage in life where, hopefully, I will have to attend job interviews again!)