Vanquished by blue shoes

I have to admit something.  I'm very vulnerable to seduction by pretty shoes: the more uncomfortable, the better.  Those of you who know about my lingerie shoes can attest to this.  When I came across these pretties at DSW, I knew that I was in trouble.

The moment I walked into the store that fateful summer day, my eyes immediately fell upon the shiny blue heels perched on the plastic display.  I knew that I would be buying those shoes.  I wandered around the store, looking at other shoes and offering opinions on shoes that my roommate was considered.  At some point, she asked me, "Did you look at anything you liked?"

I hadn't looked at anything I liked.  I had fallen in love, head over heels, for the fancy blue shoes.  I was completely, hopelessly, utterly vanquished by them.

I didn't buy them that day.  I like to stew over my purchases, so I went home without them.  I did stew over them, for months, in fact.  They appeared in my dreams and in my waking thoughts.  I couldn't look a black dress in the eye without thinking longingly of how well a pair of blue shoes would go with it.

A few months later, I went to the store again.  I looked for the shoes, and finally, I found them...in the clearance section!  Now that I had found them at a price I was more willing to pay, I wasn't going to give them up, and those shoes came home with me that very afternoon.

Unfortunately, by the time I got around to buying the shoes, the weather had already started getting colder.  However, I decided to tough it out and wear the shoes out one day anyway.  I must say that this was an occasion on which forgetting the prophylactic band-aids on my feet came back to bite me.  My feet were so blistered by the end of the evening that I ended up walking home barefoot from the train station, in Chicago, in December.  It was cold.

These shoes are a great addition to my wardrobe though.  I often puzzle over what to wear with my plainer black dresses, and a pair of colorful, albeit extremely impractical, shoes is a great way to spice up an outfit.  It gives off an air of elegance with just the right amount of fun mixed in.  Of course, since I'm uncoordinated, I tend to trip when wearing heels, which effectively removes any illusion of elegance I might ever have had.

A couple weeks after purchasing these shoes, I came across a pair in purple, which I liked almost as much as the blue.  However, two pairs of the same shiny shoes seemed a bit much, even for me, so I held back.

I highly recommend buying yourself a pair of shiny shoes.  They are quite versatile for outings involving minimal walking.  Plus, they're shiny.  Sounds like a winning combination to me.  Just don't forget to pre-emptively bandage your feet.  Your skin will thank you for it later.