No shoes for you!

[blamebrampton]

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! pushdragon and 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.

Comments

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I like the Amish, or at least what I know of them. If you're going to be a Serious Christian, I think you should be serious. Though I am glad to see that there is a place for pancakes and maple syrup!

You know that you can buy Amish clothes online. This amuses me.

[libby-drew.livejournal.com]

There's fic there, you realize.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Post-war Draco dresses in Mennonite clothing, Harry confronts him: "I saw you, you hated it. You weren't working with Riddle, no one thinks you were, stop punishing yourself!"

Draco raises an eyebrow. "Potter, you berserker, have you not noticed how perfectly this black sets off my complexion?"

"Oh. Yes. Now that you mention it ..."

[grey-hunter.livejournal.com]

Haha Have I told you how much I love reading through the comments to your posts? Now I have this awful AU in my head in which the Dursleys were Amish (or the British equivalent, anyhow)...

[grey-hunter.livejournal.com]

...or, as an alternative: the whole wizarding world is Mennonite... it's not like they'd have to change their dress code and technological level that much, right?

*imagines Lucius and Narcissa...ahahahaha! can't even complete that thought!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHAHA! And the wireless is frowned upon! His love for technology is the real reason everyone frowns on Arthur Weasley!

[grey-hunter.livejournal.com]

XD I'd like to read that one, too! Unfortunately, I don't have the religious background to write it. (And there aren't people like that in my neighbourhood at all... if I had to guess, I'd say there are none of those in the whole country.) Perhaps I'll make a prompt out of it for a future fest. Although, I think it would be best as a comic because half the hilarity is the clothes. :P

Yes, it would be more understandable that Mrs Weasley can't abide by Arthur's weird fascination with Muggles...

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I think they'd have to be Scottish to have that level of religious mania in the UK, though there were some crazy cults back in the 50s and 60s, Jeanette Winterson grew up in one, I think ... but they weren't cool and dour and black wearing ;-)

You know I'd read it!