No shoes for you!
Aug. 13th, 2008 11:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Thanks to everyone who gave shoe suggestions yesterday. I now have a list of brands to look out for. Alas, Sydney really is not a place to shop for shoes, I think because everyone wears decorative flip flops or, for the mad, ugg boots.
But the next time I am in Melbourne I will be heading to Sole Devotion, 1 Degraves St Melbourne and 124 Greville Prahran, open seven days. They have Trippen and Fluevog and EVERYTHING!
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meredyth_13, you should go!
Alas, the shop that alleged to have Trippen in Sydney did not. But they did have Alistair Trung clothing. If I was tall and rich I would only wear his clothes, and if I was just rich I would still wear several pieces. Asian-inspired deconstruction in lovely fabrics. Yum! I may not wear an awful lot of fashion, but I appreciate it when it is well made. (And to be fair to him, the prices were steep but not awful given the amount of handwork, which is all done by accredited labour.)
My shoe shop experience went like this.
me: Hello, I would like some shoes
nice shoe shop lady: Certainly! Wander about the shop with me and point out styles you like.
me: I have stumpy manky feet, BTW.
nssl: Easy, we have loads of brands that cater for people like you.
me: Yay!
nssl: Right, I have an idea what you like. Let's measure your feet. Hmmm. Gosh, they are stumpy.
me: It's true.
nssl: Not to worry, I'll go and pull a few pairs for you. [comes back, sad face] There's only one pair in your size! [tries them on] Oooh, that's not good.
me: I look like a Mormon.
nssl: I was gong to say Amish. That's not the look we're going for here. Sorry.
She was a very nice shoe shop lady, though. I'll hold off until I can get down to Melbourne.
In other news, Georgia is still immensely depressing, and while Michael Phelps may have won the most gold medals, it is my considered opinion that he is not the Greatest Olympian Ever. Jesse Owens leaves him for dead for a start. Call me an old grouch, but being an Olympian used to mean a great deal more than just winning. Pierre de Coubertin would argue my point, I feel.
But the next time I am in Melbourne I will be heading to Sole Devotion, 1 Degraves St Melbourne and 124 Greville Prahran, open seven days. They have Trippen and Fluevog and EVERYTHING!
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Alas, the shop that alleged to have Trippen in Sydney did not. But they did have Alistair Trung clothing. If I was tall and rich I would only wear his clothes, and if I was just rich I would still wear several pieces. Asian-inspired deconstruction in lovely fabrics. Yum! I may not wear an awful lot of fashion, but I appreciate it when it is well made. (And to be fair to him, the prices were steep but not awful given the amount of handwork, which is all done by accredited labour.)
My shoe shop experience went like this.
me: Hello, I would like some shoes
nice shoe shop lady: Certainly! Wander about the shop with me and point out styles you like.
me: I have stumpy manky feet, BTW.
nssl: Easy, we have loads of brands that cater for people like you.
me: Yay!
nssl: Right, I have an idea what you like. Let's measure your feet. Hmmm. Gosh, they are stumpy.
me: It's true.
nssl: Not to worry, I'll go and pull a few pairs for you. [comes back, sad face] There's only one pair in your size! [tries them on] Oooh, that's not good.
me: I look like a Mormon.
nssl: I was gong to say Amish. That's not the look we're going for here. Sorry.
She was a very nice shoe shop lady, though. I'll hold off until I can get down to Melbourne.
In other news, Georgia is still immensely depressing, and while Michael Phelps may have won the most gold medals, it is my considered opinion that he is not the Greatest Olympian Ever. Jesse Owens leaves him for dead for a start. Call me an old grouch, but being an Olympian used to mean a great deal more than just winning. Pierre de Coubertin would argue my point, I feel.
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Date: 2008-08-13 02:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-13 02:13 pm (UTC)The right one is always a bit swollen, has a huge scar running down from the ankle to nearly my big toe where they went in to rebuild my navicular (and a little scar on the side where the screw went in), my little toes are both crooked, there's a bump over my right navicular (the bone your foot pivots off) and my toes are splayed in a manner that harks back to a childhood spent kicking off my shoes at every opportunity.
I find it's best to put shoe sellers at ease rather than have them have to pretend I have attractive feet. I have magnificent hair, so it balances out ;-)
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Date: 2008-08-13 02:20 pm (UTC)you know, there could be potential for albus/scorpius foot porn with all of this.
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Date: 2008-08-13 02:13 pm (UTC)LOL!! She did NOT say that! I refuse to believe you. *g*
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Date: 2008-08-13 02:21 pm (UTC)being an Olympian used to mean a great deal more than just winning Yeah to that.
Good luck shoe-shopping. I would have suggested Birkenstock, of course, but you already knew about them ...
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Date: 2008-08-13 02:25 pm (UTC)You will laugh and laugh at my feet, it's the only sensible response. I'll hopefully have attractive enough shoes by then that I will not care!
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Date: 2008-08-13 02:45 pm (UTC)From Anne
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Date: 2008-08-13 02:54 pm (UTC)She wore stilletos in her youth and she now has terrible varicose veins and combined with the car accident she had 23 years ago, her hips are stuffed as well.
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Date: 2008-08-13 03:01 pm (UTC)They wear very sensible shoes.
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Date: 2008-08-13 03:15 pm (UTC)You know that you can buy Amish clothes online. This amuses me.
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Date: 2008-08-13 03:36 pm (UTC)The most interesting thing I've seen is a family of Mennonites at a garage sale loading up a washing machine to their horse and buggy.
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Date: 2008-08-13 09:22 pm (UTC)I want to see those stumpy feet! I'll reciprocate by showing you my crooked toes that don't seem to have any muscle; even if I ... what's it called when you do the toe equivalent of making a fist? Anyway, that, they're completely loose and odd. Not much of a show compared to yours, I grant you, but I'll contribute what I can.
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Date: 2008-08-14 01:21 pm (UTC)Your toes sound hilarious. We could have the manky foot show! And I've realised that my scar isnlt as long as I allege in a comment above, I looked at it last night and it stops a couple of inches before my big toe. It just Looms Large in my memory.
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Date: 2008-08-14 07:10 am (UTC)Have you considered the ancient art of foot binding? *g*
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Date: 2008-08-14 11:04 am (UTC)I do need a new pair, one that has heels that won't trip me up and give me whiplash. Thanks for the pointer.
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Date: 2008-08-14 01:18 pm (UTC)And yes, avoiding shoe whiplash is a Vital Attribute!