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the ungirly-girl's search for shoes
Feb. 23rd, 2009 03:05 pmAbout two months ago I started seriously looking around the internets for a decent pair of shoes. I even figured out my shoe size once and for all thanks to a handy how-to page. Men's 11 regular. Screw women's shoes, I don't play that field unless I can actually try the things on (I'm anything but a shoe freak anyways). And since I had the budget for it at the time, I even went so far as to think, "Oooh, combat boots!" and thus found myself a very nice pair that got a big thumbs-up from a friend who knows his way around such things. Wouldn't you know it, but I happened to pick a pair that was being discontinued by the manufacturer. Why, Condor, why!?
Well, after two websites of cancelled orders and bemoaning the listing on Condor's own website (the boots were there, just not in my size and I am not screwing around with sizes too big on something like this), I gave up. Bought a DS Lite. And food.
Now I'm looking again. And as I'm staring at a $140 pair of Dr. Marten's glorified galoshes, I wonder at what point one stops paying for quality and starts paying for style and a little patch with words that mean something to people who actually care about such things. And yet... they are pretty boots... and waterproof...
I'm tired of my $10 Wal-Mart sneakers that are probably 5 years old and started falling apart on me the first year. My similarly-priced flip-flip-ish Power-Puff-Girl-wannabe pink sandals also look ratty, though I'll probably wear a hole through the bottom before I throw those things out. I have snow boots, and goth boots that kill my feet after half a mile, and even a pair of stiletto boots I bought on a whim several years ago and can't really even walk properly in... I just want some good shoes. Is that so much to ask? Meanwhile, do I get K-Swiss or Converse or Nike or Sketchers or Adidas or ECCO (*snort* $180 for sneakers? puh-leeeease...) orrrrrrr what? Or do I go for some bizarre steampunky thing and hope they're actually good shoes to boot? Hurr hurr, pun.
Meh. Maybe I'll just go to the mall and have some poor salesperson at Finish Line attempt to sweet-talk me into buying something. "Yes, I may look like a chick, but what do you have in the men's dept. in black somewhere between $50-70?" *shrug* It takes all kinds, I guess. Meanwhile... I still need shoes.
Well, after two websites of cancelled orders and bemoaning the listing on Condor's own website (the boots were there, just not in my size and I am not screwing around with sizes too big on something like this), I gave up. Bought a DS Lite. And food.
Now I'm looking again. And as I'm staring at a $140 pair of Dr. Marten's glorified galoshes, I wonder at what point one stops paying for quality and starts paying for style and a little patch with words that mean something to people who actually care about such things. And yet... they are pretty boots... and waterproof...
I'm tired of my $10 Wal-Mart sneakers that are probably 5 years old and started falling apart on me the first year. My similarly-priced flip-flip-ish Power-Puff-Girl-wannabe pink sandals also look ratty, though I'll probably wear a hole through the bottom before I throw those things out. I have snow boots, and goth boots that kill my feet after half a mile, and even a pair of stiletto boots I bought on a whim several years ago and can't really even walk properly in... I just want some good shoes. Is that so much to ask? Meanwhile, do I get K-Swiss or Converse or Nike or Sketchers or Adidas or ECCO (*snort* $180 for sneakers? puh-leeeease...) orrrrrrr what? Or do I go for some bizarre steampunky thing and hope they're actually good shoes to boot? Hurr hurr, pun.
Meh. Maybe I'll just go to the mall and have some poor salesperson at Finish Line attempt to sweet-talk me into buying something. "Yes, I may look like a chick, but what do you have in the men's dept. in black somewhere between $50-70?" *shrug* It takes all kinds, I guess. Meanwhile... I still need shoes.
