Haven't exactly been writing here every day :\ Or doing much of anything really. It's been hot. OK warm. The B of Met website says things like 23 oC. Which isn't anywhere near hot but it just feels hot. The sort of hot where you don't mind getting wet from a hose. Where you don't want to be shut in a tiny, closed room with four computers, a photocopier & the sun streaming in the window. Certainly too hot to be walking around the city in jeans & a top like I wear the rest of the year.
Summer clothes are needed because I don't have any "neat casual, cool" clothes, so I dropped into Millers to see what they had. I'm standing there looking at something that looks more like a pair of pjyama bottoms than daywear and it occurs to me that my black shoes are not going to go with the pastel pyjamas that are apprently this summer's fashion.
And so to the shoe shop. That I can buy 2 or 3 items of clothing for the price of one pair of cheap shoes is irrelevant if cant' wear said clothes. So, I need sandals. And there's a good range - high heels, low heels, no heels, leather & synthetci & wood & canvas & blue & white & bronw & sparkly pink & thin toes straps & thick toe straps & bands of leather across across the front of the foot but.... what about the back of the foot? I am not going to buy any footwear that involves the back of the foot coming up off the sole, that way lays sore ankles & pulled tendons.
Although the wooden ones are kind of cool, the sole is wood and there's a strip of leather that cross the front of the foot so I try them on. And, hmm, they're too small. Not in width, I'd expect that after I've been walking around all afternoon but they're not long enough. I know it's been a while since I bought shoes but I haven't forgotten my shoe size. I do check my current shoes though -- yep, 7s. Yet the 7s are obviously too small. Shoes sizes have shrunk in the past year, who'd have thought?
Finally, up in the 8s, I find some thick looking synthetic leather things with 2 straps across the foot and one around the leg and only $20 so they were bought.
Of course, the purpose of buying sandals is to do away with socks and you know what happens when you start wearing new synthetic leather shoes with no socks? *sigh* At least these ones have some padding at the bit where the strap meets the back of the foot so they don't rub there. I get to rub the skin of the rest of my feet for a change. I'll have to refill my bandaid stock (I keep them in the bag I carry because the boots rub at the top of my ankles & the black shoes rub juct above heels & the sneakers rub in the middle) I do hate shoes :(
Summer clothes are needed because I don't have any "neat casual, cool" clothes, so I dropped into Millers to see what they had. I'm standing there looking at something that looks more like a pair of pjyama bottoms than daywear and it occurs to me that my black shoes are not going to go with the pastel pyjamas that are apprently this summer's fashion.
And so to the shoe shop. That I can buy 2 or 3 items of clothing for the price of one pair of cheap shoes is irrelevant if cant' wear said clothes. So, I need sandals. And there's a good range - high heels, low heels, no heels, leather & synthetci & wood & canvas & blue & white & bronw & sparkly pink & thin toes straps & thick toe straps & bands of leather across across the front of the foot but.... what about the back of the foot? I am not going to buy any footwear that involves the back of the foot coming up off the sole, that way lays sore ankles & pulled tendons.
Although the wooden ones are kind of cool, the sole is wood and there's a strip of leather that cross the front of the foot so I try them on. And, hmm, they're too small. Not in width, I'd expect that after I've been walking around all afternoon but they're not long enough. I know it's been a while since I bought shoes but I haven't forgotten my shoe size. I do check my current shoes though -- yep, 7s. Yet the 7s are obviously too small. Shoes sizes have shrunk in the past year, who'd have thought?
Finally, up in the 8s, I find some thick looking synthetic leather things with 2 straps across the foot and one around the leg and only $20 so they were bought.
Of course, the purpose of buying sandals is to do away with socks and you know what happens when you start wearing new synthetic leather shoes with no socks? *sigh* At least these ones have some padding at the bit where the strap meets the back of the foot so they don't rub there. I get to rub the skin of the rest of my feet for a change. I'll have to refill my bandaid stock (I keep them in the bag I carry because the boots rub at the top of my ankles & the black shoes rub juct above heels & the sneakers rub in the middle) I do hate shoes :(
