happy feet
Oct. 10th, 2005 06:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesAnybody who has ever heard me tell stories about buying shoes knows that I have short, wide feet that are mostly shaped like a Teva sole. To wit, most women's dress shoes are too narrow in general, and when I'm not falling out the back of the heels, the toes are too long. So for the most part I can't wear anything without a square toe unless I'm willing to be in pain. Which, thank you very much, I'm not, any more. And I really don't like heels all that much, because standing up in them for any length of time is almost guaranteed to hurt.
I have a pair of slingback, square-toed, black, elastic-fabric semi-dress shoes with short chunky heels, which I've been wearing the heck out of, to the point where they're starting to come unglued. So I wanted to replace them, and to that end, stuck my head in DSW while![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
whuffle and I were out running errands. (OK, I know that knitting is popular these days, but who in the hell wants boots or clogs with knitted uppers, in October, in New England? They'll never be the same once they get wet, and they won't dry out until April.)
Anyway, the point is,whuffle and I went through the clearance racks after I had nixed several possible candidates. She found me a pair of black pumps with pointed toes and 2" heels that don't hurt to wear. I'm not falling off the sides (they're wide enough), or off the heels (they're long enough), or forcing all my weight into the balls of my feet when I walk (there's room in the toes), and they're about as stable as the Rock of Gibraltar. On top of which, I think they make my feet look sexy, and with feet the shape mine are, that's awfully difficult. I find myself in the position of having a pair of closed-toe dress shoes I actually love. I would be scared about that, except that this particular style of shoe is discontinued, so it's not as scary as it would be if I could still get them reliably. (And since they're discontinued, they only cost $23.)
I have a pair of slingback, square-toed, black, elastic-fabric semi-dress shoes with short chunky heels, which I've been wearing the heck out of, to the point where they're starting to come unglued. So I wanted to replace them, and to that end, stuck my head in DSW while
whuffle and I were out running errands. (OK, I know that knitting is popular these days, but who in the hell wants boots or clogs with knitted uppers, in October, in New England? They'll never be the same once they get wet, and they won't dry out until April.) Anyway, the point is,
whuffle and I went through the clearance racks after I had nixed several possible candidates. She found me a pair of black pumps with pointed toes and 2" heels that don't hurt to wear. I'm not falling off the sides (they're wide enough), or off the heels (they're long enough), or forcing all my weight into the balls of my feet when I walk (there's room in the toes), and they're about as stable as the Rock of Gibraltar. On top of which, I think they make my feet look sexy, and with feet the shape mine are, that's awfully difficult. I find myself in the position of having a pair of closed-toe dress shoes I actually love. I would be scared about that, except that this particular style of shoe is discontinued, so it's not as scary as it would be if I could still get them reliably. (And since they're discontinued, they only cost $23.)
