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

[empress-jae.livejournal.com]

aww...thanks, but...if i did it (and that's a big if right now) it would have to be humorous. my idea is that magical surgery is uninvasive (is that even a word) enough that the patient is awake during the procedure. i can just see draco snarking and mouthing off on the operating table, telling the mediwizard or witch how to do their job and how awesome he himself is for giving up an organ for harry. who's the hero now? :D

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I would SO read that!

[grey-hunter.livejournal.com]

Sorry for butting in but...

there's no WAY draco would allow anyone to slice him open with a scalpel to remove an organ. how barbaric.

If there's a will, there's a way! XD

hm lessee... amnesia? Forced to live as Muggle? No magical cure and his mother cried! Kidnapped by organ dealers? He's been in an attack, got Petrified, and the Muggles thought he was dead and removed his kidney because they needed a donor and then Draco woke up on the operating table with his stomach wide open... so they needed to give him another. Actually, I think there was a movie in which a white bloke got the heart of a black bloke (or the other way 'round?) and was forced to endure his ghost and change his opinion about other races or something? Just because Draco could get a Muggle's organ... :P

But yea, I second BB. I'd totally want to read that magical operation fic, too!