Shoe Shopping

[little miss sunshine]

Pretty much a question for the girls (but guys are also welcome).

 

Have you ever been shoe shopping and felt like you don't belong with all the other girls? I mean, I have never been a "girlie girl" but I went shoe shopping the other day and i felt so foreign. All these girls were trying on these shoes and boots with heels and pointy toes and I can't really ever see those on my feet. I like something comfy and the pointy toe just looks too slutty if you ask me.

 

Anyone else have shoe shopping issues?

[Ruettiger]

I haven't bought shoes in about a year.

[Doormat]

I dunno, but I like good looking shoes almost too much... I'd say the typical "skater" shoes are okay...they look good, feel pretty good, but in turn are cliche (and "poserish" for the matter). I <3 my black Globes...Anyways...You gotta hate the stupid, slutty, impratical, shoes like: super high hells (break, fall die), those GODDAMNED pink, furry "Eskimo boots" (wtf is this, the Northwest Territories? Or are we trying to impersonate the Metis?), and shoes with fake jewels and crap in them...Come on... If there ever comes a need to run from a fire or something, you're screwed.

[Ravenous Yam]

At any given point in my life, i have only owned one pair of shoes at a time. A nice comfortable, fairly inexpensive pair of runners, which i usually keep for almost a year. I hate shoe shopping, because the people that work there are pushy assholes.

 

They're just shoes... They're for keeping your feet warm and to protect them from pointy things. Also some degree of mobility and athletic maneuverabilty are good too.

 

Style and fashion are chumpfood.

[uglybutterfly]

I don't fit in when I go shopping either. I think its a requirement of shoe/clothing stores that employees must be more beautiful, fashionable and therefore snobbier than the girls who shop at the store.

 

I will defend pointy shoes though, I own a pair. They're sexy in the most impractical and dangerous way.

Edited January 10, 2006 by uglybutterfly

[shenanigans87]

Is it weird that I can walk better and fall less in high heeled shoes than in flat ones?

[Jarrod]

i hate shoe shopping with a PASSION! !!!

 

it's such a pain in the ass to find shoes that i like in my size (14-15 depending on the make). it's not fun.

[Seanathon]

I dislike shoe shopping, simply because, while I don't want a poorly made pair of no name shoes, I also refuse to spend more than $50 on them. Fancy shoes and winter boots excluded.

 

I'd say the typical "skater" shoes are okay...they look good, feel pretty good, but in turn are cliche (and "poserish" for the matter).

Well colour me a poser.

[Shiri]

Just give me puma or adidas and I'm happy. I'm too tall to wear heels and even if I wasn't, I won't go with heels, I'm a lesbian for God's sake. Ha.

[little miss sunshine]

See, I'm trying to find some "nice" shoes to go with my dress pants that I am required to where for my pharmacy rotations. I pretty much own running shoes, brown boots for jeans (bought 5 years ago) and some chunky black boots (again, bought 3 years ago at Payless) that I wear with black dress pants.

 

My friend took me to the Aldo outlet and I almost had a breakdown because everyone is all pretty and sophisticated and I felt very uneasy. Grrr.

[ecnarf]

Beth: you are pretty and sophisticated. And, chances are, 25% more intelligent than any of those dolts.

[Doormat]

One point to pointy shoes - If you get into situation which requires kicking someone in the nards, they are invaluable (but will probably break after the glancing blow)

[ecnarf]

What's with chicks and kicking guys in the crotch? It's not funny. Seriously.

[little miss sunshine]

Beth: you are pretty and sophisticated.  And, chances are, 25% more intelligent than any of those dolts.

;)

 

Thanks, ecnarf.

 

P.S-rawr

[ecnarf]

No problem.

 

P.S. Don't let meg/squid/whoever catch you.

[Lauren]

i always feel weird whenever i go shopping for like anything wearable. i'm not stupid enough to spend all my money on clothes and it seems that whenever i go shopping, everyone is that store is stupid enough to spend all their money on clothes. i feel so last season.

except for value village. i got 2 sweet set of kicks there.

http://www.zappos.com/n/p/dp/923927/c/8912.html

i don't think mine are leather though.. they could be. and i can't find a picture of the other ones but they are black and amazing.

[ecnarf]

Aren't you a vegetarian or something?

[Lauren]

yeah, but there isn't necessarily a link between vegetarianism and not wearing leather. i don't wear stuff from animals. i'm sort of pleading ignorance here. and my mom told me they weren't leather.

[ecnarf]

I suppose as long as you're not consciously wearing leather, the ignorance defence works.

[mrs jesus]

i hate pointy shoes, hate them, really a lot. i think they're ugly, regardless of my attraction to the whole pointy toe being used as a weapon idea.

[HoboFactory]

Come to think of it, I've never bought or picked out my own shoes in my entire life.

[Shiri]

Okay, I'm turning this into a shoe thread... Everybody post picture of your shoes!!! ;)

 

These are the two pairs I wear the most:

 

 

[Lauren]

those are hot shoes. STAN SMITH 4EVR!!!1

[RicardoObviouso]

i bought three pairs of shoes on saturday alone. it's grown into a small obsession recently.

 

 

here they are:

 

 

 

...designate, you said you love puma. i'm in the same boat. i have 14 pairs of pumas, my favorites being:

 

the only problem with puma is that every secone person is wearing them these days, and in order to find ones that no one has you have to order from the euro site... which is annoying.

Edited January 11, 2006 by one_trick_pony

[Ravenous megin-sane]

No problem.

 

P.S. Don't let meg/squid/whoever catch you.

haha!

 

there is a huge link between not wearing leather and vegetarianism. that's like saying... 'i'm straight edge. but i'll drink shots from time to time'