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Examine the shoes you’re currently wearing. Where did you buy them, and when?
UPDATE. “Fine bunch of RWDBs we are,” complains Dave S. “Where are all the wingtips and spats?” Indeed. Also, I note that nobody is wearing cruel shoes.
- How the hell should I know where they’re from? I haven’t been in a shoe store in so long I forget where it is. I got two brown pairs, two black and that’s plenty for the next 10 years. Now flip-flops are another story. Wife buys me a couple pairs every year.Posted by GaryS on 2007 04 05 at 12:36 PM • permalink
- Actually I’m wearing a pair of black sandals bought in a shop in a mall in Frederick (not sure which state but on the way to Washington DC from Toronto)
Bought in desperation as the sandals I’d brought from OZ were not the best to wear walking around for miles
After getting blisters at Niagara Falls we stopped at this shopping centre in Frederick and I bought these very cheap little black things that saw me around Washington DC and New York – now they are my slippers! Worn out but with happy memories
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 04 05 at 12:43 PM • permalink
- Also pseudo-hikers. Hi-Tecs, bought on sale at Sports Authority about a year ago when I decided to get into geocaching. Not bad!
- Brown mary janes that would be cute if they weren’t trying to go for trendy. But they’re comfy. Bought online. (of course)Posted by tabitharuth on 2007 04 05 at 12:55 PM • permalink
- #8 iowahawk
Black canvas Converse Chuck Taylor high-tops. Purchased 10 years ago at a Converse outlet for $16.95.
Stay >10 paces downwind.
Bless you and the smelly shoes you walk in -and thanks for the many laughs you share with people like me with your parodies 🙂
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 04 05 at 01:03 PM • permalink
- Shoes?Posted by Jim Treacher on 2007 04 05 at 01:10 PM • permalink
- Brown suade Aerosoles moccasins – very comfy. Been in them most of the winter; I’ll be sorry to put them away for the summer. (Though it won’t break my heart to wear sandels. ;-p)
Bought online.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2007 04 05 at 01:12 PM • permalink
- Bata Power shoes. RM50 (about AU$18). Kuala Lumpur.
I’m a poor college student in Singapore, donation details here. Give me shoes!
A new laptop wouldn’t hurt either.
- Tan deck shoes from Rivers (Aust retail emporium). Worn without socks, the most comfortable things I’ve ever worn. These are my 3rd pair in ten years, not including the new pair lost overboard last year. Actually, only the left shoe was flipped off on the toe rail, with the right thrown in in a petulent offering to Poseidan shortly afterward.
You did ask.
- Anyone reading this in OZ
David Jones has a terrific shoe sale going at the moment and anyone with a shoe fetish will love it
In fact I forgot to buy food this week because of this – so we are stuck here over Easter without food but I have 5 pairs of lovely shoes
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 04 05 at 01:26 PM • permalink
- And I can’t tell you when or where I got them. That’s classified.Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 04 05 at 01:27 PM • permalink
- I live in such a wealthy area that people throw out a lot of brand-new stuff, such as my Cole-Haan loafers.
Apparently never worn, $3 at the thrift store instead of $98 at the real store. I had to sand the gloss off the soles to even wear them indoors.
The local gals think I’m a millionaire with good taste, joke’s on them!
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 04 05 at 01:29 PM • permalink
- Pair of these. Use to be that nice brown, now are scuffed, dog tested (via chewing) but comfortable as hell. Thanks for reminding me, must buy another pair.
Ummm, iowahawk, don’t you mean <upwind? I mean if they are that bad, couldn’t one still be gassed, >downwind?
- What: Black dress shoes.
where and when: I’m a guy. Why would I remember this? I do remember that my wife and stepdaughter were disgusted at my lack of enthusiasm for the safari, and that when I found a pair that fit, I requested another pair, in brown. That seemed to tee off the sales’man’ as well.
Prior to that I was wearing the dress shoes I had been issued at Parris Island, about 22 years before.
- Vans “Maestro”, the most comfortable shoes I have ever owned. Bought ‘em at the Vans store at the local mall… damn, more than 2 years ago.Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 04 05 at 01:51 PM • permalink
- #11
Shoes?
If I’d opened this thread a half-hour earlier, they would have been flip-flops.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 04 05 at 01:53 PM • permalink
- Dark brown slip ons, on clearance at Payless for $10 a year ago.
I normally believe in in paying for high quality shoes and expect to get a lot of good comfortable wear out of them. A couple of years ago I returned a pair to nordstrom because the sole was coming away from the upper which did not impress me at all. As they’re giving me a $300 credit it’s dawning on me ‘shit I must have had these at least 5 years’. Gotta love Nordys.Posted by alien kiwi on 2007 04 05 at 02:10 PM • permalink
- What are flip flops???
The proper names for these are THONGS
Goodness how must we Aussies get this through to you over yonder
Thongs are footwear 🙂
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 04 05 at 02:11 PM • permalink
- Would that be the ‘Swivel’ or the ‘Unruly’ you’d be wearing Mark.Posted by alien kiwi on 2007 04 05 at 02:17 PM • permalink
- I had a pair of boots made to fit my feet about twelve years ago… wore them out and had to buy a new pair a couple of years back. They fit like gloves the minute I put them on. I only take them off to sleep.
- A pair of these ugly brown mutts, two sizes too big (I hate tight shoes). Got them at Target around 6 years ago for about $25.
I travel a lot and slip-ons are the only sensible shoe if you go through airport security all the time.
Posted by David Crawford on 2007 04 05 at 02:24 PM • permalink
- OT: Iowahawk, was that you posting at DailyKos, or just someone ripping you off?
via LGF, scroll down to the pic and paragraph that follows. Sounds like an imitation first draft of your work!
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 04 05 at 02:27 PM • permalink
- Fake hikers from Wally World. Probably fifteen bucks on sale. Forget fashion – it’s all about comfort.Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 04 05 at 02:40 PM • permalink
- brown suede hiking boots, Timberlands, I believe. Bought at an A & N store in Newport News VA. about 3-4 years ago, as a Christmas present from the parents. That’s how I knew I had grown up, when I started wanting practical things for Christmas.
And it appears there’s a good reason Tim is busy right now: stralia ‘can’t defend’ Antarctic oil
AUSTRALIA claims almost half of Antarctica but has negligible capacity to fend off an interloper intent on seizing territory or pirating resources.
- Leather NAOT flipflops/thongs. Bought them about 10 years ago at some earthy-crunchy type shoe store in Alexandria, Virginia. However, they’re only for indoor wear today as we’re having a major case of the Gore effect here in Northern Virginia.
Alienkiwi—if you’re looking for high quality, comfortable shoes, try NAOT brand (made in Israel). They’re a little pricey, but incredibly comfortable. I’ve had two pairs for about 10 years. I wear them constantly in the summer and, to date, have only needed to reheel one pair one time.
Posted by Polish Frizzle on 2007 04 05 at 02:46 PM • permalink
- Re #16 and #18, if anyone believes me, BUAWHAHAHAHAHA!! ‘Cuz I ain’t.
Actually, I’m wearing a pair of brown dress shoes made by Timberland, bought at some outlet shop a couple years ago. They’re OK, and I’ll wear ‘em until they fall apart. My last pair survived about 5 years.
I’d wear my desert combat boots (those are COMFORTABLE!), except I’d get a lot of odd looks around here. More than usual, I mean. Can’t upset the neighbors, y’know!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 04 05 at 02:53 PM • permalink
- #38 Thanks Frizz, they look promising.Posted by alien kiwi on 2007 04 05 at 02:56 PM • permalink
- I am wearing a pair of “Naot” shoes, made in Israel, very comfortable and attractive, with GORGEOUS flower-shaped soles! I like expensive shoes, and these are expensive, at least, here in Canada. Also, anything from Israel, I buy.
As to The Real Jeff’s boots: they look like Wellington boots. Which reminded me (I am studying the Waterloo Campaign)of this paragraph from Elizabeth Longford’s Wellington book about Wellington’s boots(p 409): “ The great Hoby of St James’s Street prided himself not only on his boots but also on his preaching – at a Methodist chapel in Islington. On hearing the news of Vitoria he is said to have remarked complacently, ‘If Lord Wellington had had any other boot-maker than myself, he never would have had his great and constant successes; for my boots and prayers bring his Lordship out of all his difficulties.’”
- I’m a blogger; I don’ need no steenkin’ shoes.
When I bother to wear them: moose-hide moccasins from Minnetonka. I have four pairs: tan, dark brown, black, and REALLY old ones of indeterminate color I wear in the garden. Between them, they account for about 99% of my shoe-wearing time.
Otherwise, it’s hunting boots, and I hardly ever wear them anymore.
Posted by Kim du Toit on 2007 04 05 at 03:24 PM • permalink
- Big black lace-up New Balance walking shoes with black wool socks. Standard common-every-day footgear for about 8 months out of the year. Bought ‘em at Alamo Shoes on Clark Street either last winter or the winter before that, I forget which.Posted by Sonetka’s Mom on 2007 04 05 at 03:24 PM • permalink
- Walmart. Kerrville, Texas. About 5 years ago. About $20. Imitation leather topsiders. Extremely rugged.Posted by bugscuffle on 2007 04 05 at 03:32 PM • permalink
‘If Lord Wellington had had any other boot-maker than myself, he never would have had his great and constant successes; for my boots and prayers bring his Lordship out of all his difficulties.’”
HA! heather, I imagine Lord Wellington well and truly appreciated both the boots and the prayers.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 04 05 at 04:11 PM • permalink
- This shoe from GBX. My wife bought it, handed them to me at supper time, and said “put these on”. I replied “no, I wear Johnston & Murphy dress shoes to the office and Nikes at home”. She said “I’m tired of seeing those, wear these”. While it’s true I’m the KING OF MY CASTLE, I am quite cognizant of the fact that the Queen has a unique ability of making my life insufferable unless I comply with her wishes.
They look butt ugly. They’re as wide as cow hooves. But dang if they ain’t comfortable.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 04 05 at 04:26 PM • permalink
- I’m a blogger; I don’ need no steenkin’ shoes.
🙂
I’m err wearing socks only right now,,,
Posted by hollingshead on 2007 04 05 at 04:59 PM • permalink
- #19 Harry Bergeron, I hear you! I’m wearing a pair of black Mary Jane-type flats that I bought for a couple of bucks at the local thrift shop. Which is where I get most of my togs, as a matter of fact. :-/
“…I’m wearing second-hand hats, second hand clothes,
That’s why they call me Second Hand Rose…”
(Okay, so it’s Blabbra Strident singing—it’s still a funny song!)P.S. to AussieMagpie @ #28 above: If “thongs” are footwear, how are we supposed to refer to the “bu[tt/m] floss” type of underwear?
Posted by Mary in LA on 2007 04 05 at 05:01 PM • permalink
- The most expensive sandals Teva makes. In my defence, I wore Tevas long before they became a yuppie fashion statement and after my last pair of sandal’s sole split, I had to get another pair. After several hours of looking for what I wanted and way beyond my very limited shopping tolerance. I walked into a store and saw the Tevas and immediately decided that was what I wanted, before I knew they were Tevas or saw the price tag. It’s been 5 years since I bought my last footwear and probably 5 years till I buy my next.
In Perth we don’t change footwear with the seasons. So in all likelyhood I’ll wear them every day till they break.
- Doc Martens Oil Rigger boots. Bought at Academy on the west side of Ft. Worth for about $120 last year. I’m not an oil worker, they’re just comfortable and have padded ankles.
- Birkenstocks Just kidding! When my socks start getting wet in the rain I pull into the nearest Payless and buy whatever dark colored high top running shoe is on sale. And does anybody really give a rat’s ass?Posted by dean martin on 2007 04 05 at 05:43 PM • permalink
- How about you all imagine what it would be like to be in my shoes!Posted by Senator Andrew Bartlett on 2007 04 05 at 05:48 PM • permalink
- I’ve got on my footwear of choice–open-toed slippers. These are blue and I have no idea.Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 04 05 at 06:05 PM • permalink
- What an odd thread, btw. Does Tim have a fetish?Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 04 05 at 06:07 PM • permalink
- Black leather slippers from LB Evans via Shoebuy, who I thoroughly recommend for their excellent service and range of wider fittings. They’re in Boston and I’m in Perth, but doing business with Shoebuy was a pleasure.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 04 05 at 06:39 PM • permalink
- A fine pair of Bostonians. I bought them a year ago at Letellier on Rideau Street, Ottawa, last year. I buy a new pair every spring.
Why do you ask?
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 04 05 at 06:53 PM • permalink
- Homy Ped Beachies. $29.95 at the local chemist about 15 months ago. These are the ones I wear all day every day. Soon I’ll have to swap them for the pair I keep for best and buy another pair for best.
Unlike certain other Territorians and, apparently, Queenslanders, I don’t like getting the soles of my feet dirty.
And wronwright, did you know that your shoes are described as, “panel toe double gore slipon”?
- #3 Justin, where in the territory exactly? (Or at least an approximation)Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 04 05 at 06:54 PM • permalink
- White New Balance cross trainers. $35.00. Kohl’s, about 6 weeks ago. Comfortable and do the job.
But I’m usually just in socks.
And I grew up in South Texas calling flip-flops “slides”. Of course, I also pronounce wash “warsh”.
Posted by Tex Lovera on 2007 04 05 at 06:59 PM • permalink
- #31 I usually wear sandals when I air-travel.Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 04 05 at 07:04 PM • permalink
- There appears to be a preponderance of brown shoes. Uuughh!Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 04 05 at 07:05 PM • permalink
- #63 Yes Dean Martin, I always look at a person’s shoes, just as I do the rest of their dress and their demenour and bearingPosted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 04 05 at 07:20 PM • permalink
- Brown Florsheim ‘comfortechs’. For once, the name is not a crock – they really are comfortable. Cost about $140 (on special) at the Florsheim shop in Collins Street, Melbourne. Non-Oz readers might be interested to know that kangaroo leather is used extensively in Australian shoe-making, so the buggers are good for something. When buying them, I was served by a solicitous, middle-aged gay guy, who was a pleasure to deal with. Can’t stand buying shoes from young men: most of them resent the job, and make it clear they would rather be doing anything than selling me shoes. I would always rather deal with middle-aged men, women or gay guys.
- I’m about to put on Borne loafers (?). Very comfy, except I was wearing thicker sox than I should’ve when I bought them, so now when I wear thin black sox (like I usually do), my feet slide a little. Wear them to work everyday (except the 6 months I wore boots).
Nordsrtoms, Somerset (Troy, MI). $70. 2-2.5 years ago.
Time to go eat some oysters.
- Black Nike slip-on (plastic) sandals that I’ve had for 5 years: can wear them around the yard and just wash the dirt off (bought at Dept Store in Sydney: also had a nice blue/gold stripe pair, but the pup chewed ‘em).
When it gets cooler (in the highlands in Oz) resort to black “Ferrani Style Italy” suede slip-on deck shoes, bought at a shoe chain in Bangkok, also quite comfy.
- HCMC, near Ben Thanh market.
I didn’t know there was anywhere else you could buy shoes.
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 04 05 at 07:46 PM • permalink
- Totally worn out pair of Asic walking shoes (4 large holes in ‘em, soles worn so thin I can tell if a coin is heads or tails) bought in Hawaii at the Waikele outlet mall in Hawaii while on deployment to RIMPAC ‘94.
Totally shot as shoes, but comfy when messing about in the shed like I am doing now. Aside from a pair of exercise shoes, a pair of black shoes for work, a pair of flying boots for field exercises (stuff teh GP boots) and hunting and a pair of strong civvy boots, who needs more??
MarkL
Canberra
- 71 Swinish my friend,
Black leather slippers from LB Evans via Shoebuy, who I thoroughly recommend for their excellent service and range of wider fittings.
“wider fittings”. It was once suggested to me to toss the damn shoes away and wear the box they came in. (often wondered how the shoe sales person made out, after the facial surgery)
Unfortunately, it would be expensive as I would have to buy two pair, in order to have two boxes.
Of course, I could hop around in one. Maybe I should just steal another shoe box.
- Shoes? S-h-o-e-s? Ees that plural of shoo? Oh well see wiki says: “A shoe is an item of footwear worn on the foot or feet of a human, dog, cat, horse, or doll. Why hooman or dog or cat or horse or doll wear shoo on foot? What ees for? We in Caribbean no wear no shoos. We wear nada on foot. That stoopid! We wear theengs under foot! That ees correct way for protect foot.
Thees Ozzes an Murricanes and Canoedians must be mucho morones for wear theengs on foot. Then foot protects theengs! Maybe they need visit Caribbean for learning art of foot defense.
Posted by ElectronPower on 2007 04 05 at 08:15 PM • permalink
- 2 year old pair of Nike discontinued sneakers that were at Kohl’s for $15. Very comfy. I either wear those or a pair of custom-made cowboy boots bought in 1999 and expected to outlast me.Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 04 05 at 08:28 PM • permalink
- Sneakers from WalMart. Wear ‘em til they die. Buy more. This pair are about shot. Next time I think I’ll try the <b>twelve</b. dollar brand…Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 05 at 08:31 PM • permalink
- Formerly white New Balance cross-trainers bought at a Rebel Sport shop. Price forgotten. At least one animal died in the making of these shoes and much of the rest is from ecologically unsustainable by-products of the oil industry. The trainers were assembled in China by sweatshop labour using electricity generated by a coal-powered power station. Expect the offcuts were fed to the workers.
- #83 I drive a truck for a living Mr.C. I try to drive courteously and professionally and not let the truck get too dirty. Don’t much care what anyone thinks of my shoes. I’ll admit maybe my demeanor needs a little work sometimes.Posted by dean martin on 2007 04 05 at 08:51 PM • permalink
- Skin shoes, (mine not someone else’s). I have had them for a l o n g time but luckily they are self repairing, and I acquired them when I was in Nth Queensland.
The only thing I regret is that I can’t instantly change them into hooves and back again. That would be handy as I wouldn’t have to worry about stones or thorns and it would be real handy for occasionally kicking the shit out of some of the dickheads I have to work with.
Posted by FreddyFrog on 2007 04 05 at 08:54 PM • permalink
- rtist/Band: Keith Toby
Lyrics for Song: Baddest Boots
Lyrics for Album: Shock’n Y’all
(Toby Keith)I saw her turn her head in a drop dead gaze
She was peakin’ out over the top of those wire-rimmed shades
No it wasn’t my charm and it wasn’t my grin
That had that little secretary dive right in
She wasn’t lookin’ at me man she was lookin at my feetIt’s these twenty-two hundred and twenty-five dollar
Pair of hand made genuine fine
Hornback kicks with a seven row stitch
And a three dollar sidewalk shine
Yeah they’re made to fit and they’re hard to find
Make a pretty woman look down every time
I got the baddest boots on the boulevard
Yeah the baddest boots on the boulevardThey were made by a little man down in El Paso
I was passin’ through town singin’ at the rodeo
He said they cost a little more but for what it’s worth
There ain’t another pair like em on God’s green earth
And I handed him my money and he sized me upIt’s these twenty-two hundred and twenty-five dollar
Pair of hand made genuine fine
Hornback kicks with a seven row stitch
And a three dollar sidewalk shine
Yeah they’re made to fit and they’re hard to find
Make a pretty woman look down every time
I got the baddest boots on the boulevard
Yeah the baddest boots on the boulevardThey make a man proud walking through a crowd
Whoa nothin’ else can stand beside em
When I pull em on I start singin’ a song
Make me wanna tuck my britches’ legs inside em
(now let’s take a stroll)It’s these twenty-two hundred and twenty-five dollar
Pair of hand made genuine fine
Hornback kicks with a seven row stitch
And a three dollar sidewalk shine
Yeah they’re made to fit and they’re hard to find
Make a pretty woman look down every time
I got the baddest boots on the boulevard
Yeah the baddest boots on the boulevardPosted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 05 at 09:01 PM • permalink
- My feet are bare. Most of my shoes I bought at Walmart, Payless, or Sears. I have a couple of pairs I bought at Kohl’s, but they both pinch so they are going into the Goodwill box.Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 04 05 at 09:09 PM • permalink
- I’m wearing a pair of brown Bruno Magli’s that I found in the trash outside a big mansion in Brentwood. They had some blood stains in the bottom of one and someone had written “OJ” on the inside of the other with a ball point pen. But other than that, they were in pretty good shape.Posted by Daddy Binx on 2007 04 05 at 09:16 PM • permalink
- Double plugs. Bought in a surf shop in Wongan Hills. Which, incidentally, is a long way from the beach.Posted by Dean McAskil on 2007 04 05 at 09:18 PM • permalink
- As a warm blooded American male, I’m a bit disappointed none of the ladies here are wearing black 4 inch stilleto heels. With fish net stockings. And um, well, better stop there.
But then it’s probably like teddies. Before we marry, men think women wear them to bed every night when, in reality, they’d prefer wearing a long T shirt in the summer and a flannel night gown in the winter. Boy we sure get straighten out on these misconceptions after the honeymoon.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 04 05 at 09:19 PM • permalink
- In a smuchas I am just wandering around the house, I am wearing flip-flop sandals, which as a sign of age I still call zorries. This particular pair was bought at the Goodwill thrift store out of the Target overstock bin. Bright red, and they used to have a “no running” message imprinted which the soles of my feet have rubbed out.
- Wronwright you did not mention the “spencer”. The singularly most unattractive female thermal undergarment most men don’t know exists until they marry.
I remember the old D-generation (later producers of The Castle, Frontline & The Dish) TV comedy show skit, “a strip club for married men”, featuring the spencer.
Posted by Dean McAskil on 2007 04 05 at 09:28 PM • permalink
- #76 Janice –
And wronwright, did you know that your shoes are described as, “panel toe double gore slipon”?
What???? Aeyyyyyyee, off you Gore-illas, off my feet!
Well. It’s obvious that this is some sick joke conducted by Mrs. wronwright at my expense. Possibly by way of a suggestion by crittenden or paco. Which all goes to show I should not have married a Presbyterian.
I think I’ll make a bonfire using long age woods, mainly oaks and elms from my neighbors’ yards. The mrs’ love chest might add a delightful cedar smell. And then I’ll burn those Gore shoes and send them into the sky in a blazing emission of golden grade CO2.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 04 05 at 09:45 PM • permalink
- OT, but a tenuous very link to the Shoebomber:
REPORT:
India, Pakistan near deal to settle Kashmir dispute.
THE outlines of a possible agreement on the future of Kashmir emerged last night .. a deal that would result in Pakistan and India jointly managing the disputed region.I guess that is one blessing of the David Hicks conviction. The Islamists couldn’t count on his muscle and firepower any more.
- #64 The horror.Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 04 05 at 10:03 PM • permalink
- Athletic Works pseudo-tennierunners, $9.88 at Wal*Mart last December. Black, with Velcro® ties.
I can’t afford either custom shoes or anything in a price range that includes narrow widths. Since I can’t buy shoes that fit, I buy the cheapest thing available. When they get too scruffy I buy another pair, retire the ones I’m wearing to horse-feeding and farm-work duty, and throw away the oldest ones.
Regards,
Ric
- Aviation Brown Shoes. Purchased Navy Exchange Pearl Harbor on or about December 12, 2006. They suck, but they’re cheap. I buy a new pair every four months, just so I don’t have to polish them.Posted by Holden McGroyn on 2007 04 05 at 10:08 PM • permalink
- Interesting the number of us RWDB who buy discount shoes at [generic*]-mart.
Most arty left types I know are far more conscious of shoe brands than me.
*insert your local brand of discount warehouse here.
Posted by Dean McAskil on 2007 04 05 at 10:08 PM • permalink
- Dean—that is because they are of course much less conscious of material things than us weeevil fascists.
Me, the shoes stay on, the pants stay up, I’m happy…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 05 at 10:11 PM • permalink
- Most of the time at home I’m barefoot, but at the moment I’m wearing Faded Glory denim sandals I bought in Wal-Mart for $5.95 off their get-rid-of-quick shelf, because I’m nursing blisters I got walking the Las Vegas Strip because I stupidly thought I could wear my comfiest Nike sandals instead of my crosscountry trainers, and because I also stupidly thought we rented a freakin’ car for a reason.
- My loafers are new.
I see cnn reports:Universities may rescind Mugabe’s honorary degrees.
Muggerabe degreeless? Maybe soon need new shoes. Any offers?
Posted by stackja1945 on 2007 04 05 at 10:14 PM • permalink
- Just a few more years of binding and I’ll be able to fit into these fetching moccasins.Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 04 05 at 10:35 PM • permalink
- Up until about six months ago, I had a pair of moosehide moccasins. They were soft as butter, and incredibly comfortable. They lasted for about five years, and had to be retired not because of the holes I wore in them, nor because of the soles that were falling off, but because my dogs decided one day that the stinky things would make excellent chew toys. I miss those shoes – I should order another pair and make the baby Gaia cry.Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 04 05 at 10:47 PM • permalink
- I’m wearing black Timberland oxfords. I bought them at Alamo Shoes, at Broadway and Berwyn, in Chicago. They’re comfortable, they come in sizes big enough for my gunboats, they’re rubber-soled (which I prefer), relatively inexpensive, good looking, and long-lasting. When these wear out, I’ll go buy another pair.Posted by Urbs in Horto on 2007 04 05 at 10:51 PM • permalink
- Ooh, goody! *looks down*.
Hm. Barefoot, with the remains of a very pretty pedicure on my toenails.
Metal pink nailpolish, I see.Posted by carpefraise on 2007 04 05 at 11:10 PM • permalink
- You run a good blog, Blair!!Posted by carpefraise on 2007 04 05 at 11:10 PM • permalink
- 91 – Cid, I know the feeling. I thought I was condemned to a lifetime of pinching shoes that split across the sole, and lasted a couple of years if I was lucky. Then a couple of years ago I bought a pair of Rockport RTWs. I didn’t know footwear could be so bloody comfortable.
I’ve bought four or five pairs of shoes from Shoebuy and I can’t praise them highly enough. I could order online, have the shoes at my place within 10-12 days, and if they weren’t right I could send them back no questions asked. What a contrast to the treatment I got from David Jones. I found Bass ankle boots on their online catalogue, which they didn’t stock in Perth, but could get in for me in ‘about two weeks’. That was about 18 months ago and I’m still waiting for a call. It seems ridiculous that a company on the other side of the world can outperform one of Australia’s largest department stores, but there it is.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 04 05 at 11:38 PM • permalink
- I’d forgotten about the Cruel Shoes – thanks, Tim!
Polished jackboots and tiny moccasins are all good, but if you really want to make a fashion statement, you need to break out the twenty-inch chopines.
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 04 05 at 11:39 PM • permalink
- #64 LOL. Nice one Senator.
I thought you ran around kissing other people’s shoes!
You know, to keep you humble, like the Pope.Posted by carpefraise on 2007 04 05 at 11:43 PM • permalink
- RM Williams, the most comfortable and durable boot ever made. My old pair are still going strong but a bit tatty, I bought them in Katherine in 1973Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 04 06 at 12:20 AM • permalink
- Yesterday I was wearing Met Police issue Doc Martens with combat soles, this morning a fine pair of 2-tone wingtip golf shoes while giving Mother Gaiea a few divot-hickies, now just bare feet as the airconditioning cools my whiffy feet down pleasantly. Later on, a pair of sweatshop-sourced Brooks to take the hounds out so they can snap one off on Gaia’s dial. Should video it- it’d be a big seller in Germany.
- A particularly dirty pair of white Dunlop Volleys, bought from Big W maybe three years ago for around $20.
Dunlop Volleys have a natural life-cycle at my place from maybe a year as a “seen in public” shoe, through maybe a couple of years as an “everyday wear” shoe (when it gets too dirty and tatty for the outside world), though an indefinite period as a “gardening/mowing” shoe until it meets its final end in a pile of “chemical spraying” shoes. Every 10 years or so, a pair may actually be thrown out!
TFK
- Also have a nice pair of brown faux crocodile DM wingtips, a pair of 14hole cherry red Docs bought 20 years ago, a snazzy pair of antique rattlesnake skin cowboy boots (don’t tell CITES), a pair of Camel waterproof combat boots and a pair of 2-tone brothel creepers- I’m doing my bit for RWDBdom.
The only footwear I have that doesn’t have any dead animal content are my bogan brogues, the ideal driving shoe for Skylines.
- just taken off j b martin apple green thongs with a flower thingy made of the same leather on the bit that goes between the toes, sutiable for lunching. bought 18 months ago in toorak road. made in brazil. just putting on hello kitty thongs bought at xmas from target to go survey what’s most recently died in the garden
- A Native American idea modified and adopted by bogans in the outer suburbs of Melbourne as all-purpose footwear – they are equally as useful for visits to the dole office, bottle shop or 7eleven as they are sitting on the couch watching dvds, pulling a bong or feeding the rottweiler/bull terrier/staffodshire cross – and known to those outside these circles as Broadmeadows wedding shoes.
- This story features a nice pair of sandals, if you look closely enough.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 04 06 at 02:43 AM • permalink
- #113 DaveS
Hey, criticism no fair! The Shoes of Merciless Slaughter, (VRWC RWDB for the use of) are only available for Henchmen and above. H.E.N.C.H.M.E.N.
So see Wronwright about that one. Some of them come with wingtips. I think that is where the microgrenades are hidden, from memory. Or is it the eyeball-gouging knife??
VRWC Jackboots are only available to Masters of the VRWC and above (yes, yes, Mistress Andrea, wielder of the knout, also counts of course)
Anyhoo, we mere minions get VRWC-issue Roman Army sandals when on duty. Blood and guts drains out of them so much more easily. Of course, it turns out that thanks to Wronwright and the Tardis, ‘Roman Army sandals’ can be taken a little more literally than in most workplaces, but you get that in this job.
MarkL
Minionmeister to the VRWC
- Roman sandals are a bit hippy, doncha think? Unless of course you’re referring to these buggers*, which would enable you to maintain traction even during an Al Gore ice episode- bloody hell, you could climb the north face of Peter Garretts glacial bonce in them.
*Also handy for infiltration of Socialist Alliance/Green Left/PETA phonebox meetings- if rumbled you could do some fancy facial footwork on the irate mungbean munchers before legging it.
- #151 We called those Broady safety boots when I was a kid. Still do, actually.
I’ve got barefeet on, although my favourite shoes for inside work and going formal are platform high heels with cork soles like this.
I loooove shoes. High heeled pumps, sandals, boots, you name it.
The only flat shoes I wear are a really comfy pair of sandals I picked up in NYC back in 1999 because my other ones died, my dodgy sneakers for training in and my docs for serious work.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 04 06 at 04:55 AM • permalink
- I did own a pair of cruel shoes but alas, my feet are still liberal and wimped out, so I had to throw them away.Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 04 06 at 05:39 AM • permalink
- A pair of these Timberlands. The previous pair (3rd of this type) I got at the Timberland store in Sydney’s Strand Arcade. When it was time for a new pair recently, I found the Timberland store had disappeared! Finally found a pair at David Jones.Posted by David Morgan on 2007 04 06 at 06:20 AM • permalink
- Currently wearing steelcap Rossi boots. They are my everyday footwear of choice because of comfort and fit. Having monstrous plates means buying shoes has always been a problem for me. Not many brands extend to UK size 13 but Rossis do and they’re also a wide fitting. It’s a sorry sate of affairs but I have to do my shoe shopping in industrial outlets. The steel caps ensure I have to negotiate with bouncers when I go to the pub and I was resigned to taking my shoes off at airports well before Sept 11.
- BTW could this be the origin of the ugg boot?Posted by David Morgan on 2007 04 06 at 06:26 AM • permalink
- Wronwright you did not mention the “spencer”. The singularly most unattractive female thermal undergarment most men don’t know exists until they marry.
Dean, can you elaborate? I have been married for a quarter century, and I have never heard of the “spencer”. Perhaps it is called by another name here.
- #164 – I was wondering when someone was going to invoke The Manolo.
#150 – I fear I must confess that I wear Birkenstocks almost exclusively. They are the most comfortable footwear I have found. I even have a pair of Birkenstock hiking boots that Mrs. Daddy Binx found online at Sierra Trading Post.
The only problem with them is the over-powering urge to tilt my head when I have them on. Go figure.
Posted by Daddy Binx on 2007 04 06 at 08:51 AM • permalink
- Currently, I’m barefoot. These feet were given to me 19 years ago by my parents, although they have stretched some since I first acquired them.
For my everyday collegiate experience, I wear a pair of battered sneakers (alas, no longer white), bought–just like Urbs in Horto–at Alamo Shoes in Chicago. Comfortable, even though they’re pretty badly worn.
When I feel like crushing liberal dissent beneath my evil Republican conspiricist sole, I either wear my black high-heeled leather boots (mail-ordered from Travelsmith, and fantastically durable and comfortable) or my proud pair of jen-yoo-wine combat boots that Sgt. Ivan gave me. Nothing says “I am a Rove-worshipping, 9/11 truth-denying, Gaia-raping eeeevil person” like Army-issue combat boots.
Especially on a liberal college campus. *shudder*
Posted by Tungsten Monk on 2007 04 06 at 09:23 AM • permalink
- Blunnies. Last forever and cheap as chips.
Don’t wear them with a blue suit, otherwise people will talk, but it will get you out of jury duty.
I’m a bit worried about some of you people, there appear to be some of you a little light on your feet in the choice of footwear, as the saying goes, (not that there’s anything wrong with that).
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 04 06 at 10:44 AM • permalink
- since i work at home four days a week, i’m usually either barefoot (as at present) or wearing a pair of green plastic Sloggers brand garden clogs which the Queen of All My Dreams gave me for Christmas 2005 after artful lobbying, ordered online because the local garden center was out of stock. when i have to leave the house, i usually wear a pair of old-school green suede Puma trainers which i got for $30US at the REI winter clearance sale a few weeks ago. amusingly, i had considered buying a similar pair when i was in Amsterdam last fall which would have cost me the equivalent of $90-100US. yes, green shoes are a theme with me.
- Well, Dave, I missed that: I got caught by the “Busk Front Waist Cincher” and could go no further…
=^D
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 04 06 at 08:40 PM • permalink
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