The Velveteen Rabbit of shoes. Except, unlike the Velveteen Rabbit (near as I can remember anyway), there was a time when I had to let these go forever. I started noticing that every meeting I went to (back in the days when I had a real job) smelled suspiciously like feet.* A sad day for many reasons.
Anywho, they (
Seychelles) don't make these anymore (also a sad day when I found that out), but someone is selling a
slighly used black pair on ebay. As much as I loved them though...I'm not sure I could handle the potential of someone else's foot smell showing up one day like an uninvited guest.
How do you guys feel about used shoes? Have you ever owned a pair of shoes you wore to death/sadly discovered aren't made anymore?
* My feet don't smell normally, I promise! It's just that I wore these shoes THAT much. And it's true what your mother told you...don't go without socks/stockings.
3 comments:
Nope, I can't handle someone else's old shoes. I don't mind borrowing shoes, but buying abandoned shoes? Not for me. I was just at Goodwill, and even though there were some very gently used (and nice!) pairs of shoes, I could not bring myself to try them on.
Speaking of Goodwill . . . I was there on a mission. A clothing wars mission! I sent you the link to your MissEd Flickr name, and posted the evidence on my own Flickr. Have we decided what to do next? :)
Hey awesome--I completed my mission at Goodwill as well! I'm thinking we have a couple options. Either we could all just post our individual pictures (blog or flickr, etc.) with a link back to the Clothing Wars challenge post...or y'all (I'm Texan now?) could e-mail me the photos and I will write one big post when the entries are in. I kind of like the idea of the latter, but we might want to set a deadline for posting if that's the case.
Thoughts? Man, we're nerdy. I love it! I'm going to go look for your photo now!
Hey girl, it's Shannon! Was just pointed this way by Katie. Love your blog! Except for this one post, b/c of my weird aversion to all things feet. And then the "smell" came up in the post and I couldn't go any further. Promise I'll read the rest though. Ha!
Miss you!
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