[lucizoe]

I'm too poor for my shoe-lust. Plus, you know, my enormous high-arched hobbit feet don't take well to cute shoes. Which blows innumerable goats, since my fashion sense - like my spidey sense - is keen and tingling.

I was shopping for new sneakers today. I've been living in birkenstocks for weeks now and I can't take it anymore. Too much walking. However, as usual, the little purple saucony sneakers I wanted do not exist in my size. Or the equivalent man-size. In fact, I couldn't get one.damn.pair in a men's 9. Is that weird or what? Does this store merely service the hipster nymphs and pixies of NYU? Like I'm not feeling out of place enough, apparently I need to find the big fat foot store. I just need to find the bag to put over my head...*rummages in boxes*

*sigh* Okay, rant over.

I love browsing zappos.com...I'm so loathe to buy anything, though. My experience has been that nothing ever fits my feet comfortably. I don't think I've ever owned a consistently cozy pair of shoes in my life. So, while, yes, those heels are a 10.5 wide and awful cute, they probably still won't fit.

Blah - I'm sorry this is so negative! I'm a bit depressed! Yay shoes! If you have small feet and can wear the cute ones, wear them and be fierce!!!

[divalla]

$680 doesn't feel any better than $80, to tell you the truth, but they look fabulous. They're Manolo Blahnik 3.5" mules in red and black suede with an embroidered leaf pattern between where the two colors come together. Put it this way: they're good sitting shoes. I wore them out to a club once, but actually took them off downtown and carried them while I walked several blocks (2 of which were in front of a sex shop with whoknowswhat on the sidewalk). Yep, they'll only be worn when I'm going to be doing very little standing. But put me in the same shoe with a slingback and I'm way better. I don't know why these high-end designers don't somehow work comfort into the cost of their shoes. It wouldn't be that hard. That said, gel inserts in the fronts of the shoes really do work wonders, even if they move around a little because the adhesive sucks.

I'm going to start wearing heels at home, too. I just get scared that the tiny hard plastic heels will scratch up my wood floors.

I'm also of the belief that department store shoe departments (hell, any place that sells shoes) should have a strip of pavement on the floor to walk on in the shoes to show you how they'll really feel once you leave the store. All shoes are comfortable when you're walking on carpet.