"Brown Shoes Don't Make It" is a song by The Mothers of Invention, written by band leader Frank Zappa.
[3] The reporter correctly guessed that something was amiss when the fastidiously dressed President Lyndon B. Johnson made the sartorial faux pas of wearing brown shoes with a gray suit.
The song was written in April 1966 during a trip to Honolulu where The Mothers played for a week at a club called "Da Swamp".
It starts as a general attack on suburban American society: TV, greed and conformity are all mocked openly.
In a positive review of the album, Dominique Chevalier said "there are snatches of dodecaphonic scales, ballads, rock, R&B, Beach Boys, soap opera and more ... and ensures that this is no piece of easy listening".