These are actually the second pair I've had in the same colour. They are cheap workhorse type shoes, but ever so comfortable. The first pair I had for several years. Particularly in winter they were worn many times. I was devastated on my birthday a couple of years ago when everything was falling apart at home to find when I reached the bus stop on a very rainy day, that the sole of one had split across the bottom, let in heaps of water and the colour had run all over a good pair of my handknit socks. As I'd been expecting a lift to the bus stop at the very least on my birthday, it was all too much and I stood there in the rain, waiting for the bus with tears running down my face.
Like many whose blogs I read, I've always loved red shoes. These are supremely comfortable and the strap at the side of this pair means I can adjust the fit on days when the arthritis makes my feet swell. They are soft underneath but with a firm base to the softness. Another pair I've always been able to wear with no problems.
Now the humidity is easing, the arthritis in my feet is also easing. It's been worse this year than in any year for the last ten years or so. My toes and under the instep are no longer swollen but my ankles still have some puffiness. It's going but there's still a remainder. I look at this and wonder where my very trim ankles of last year have gone. There's some misshapen ankle bones under the puffiness, a legacy I presume of whacks from a hockey stick in my teenage years.
I was at Sydney Uni in the days of the old Fisher library and in the early years of the new building. Those wearing shoes with heels small than a 10 cent piece were required to take them off in the new library to save damaging the new floor. I came back to my desk after looking for a book to find a note left for me. I asked the writer later how she knew it was my desk. She said she knew that such pretty new red shoes left on the floor just had to be mine!
3 comments:
That's such a funny story about Fisher Library! I don't think they are very worried about the state of the floors any more.
Isn't it the best when you are able to replace beloved shoes with a pair that are equally beloved.
It is always sad when shoes die, if I was rich would buy two or three pairs of shoes that I liked. How wonderful that you found your shoes again though, brand new!!!
As a child, I had a pair of lace-up school shoes for winter and a pair of JC type sandals for summer. I owned a pair of Sunday best only when my uncle got married (when I was eight)! Other than that we lived in thongs, sandshoes or, my personal favourite, bare feet.
I think that's carried over to my adult life - I have a pair of good black winter shoes (bought for a job interview) with a low heel, a pair of good black low-heeled sandals (bought for DD's wedding), two pairs of flat leather sandals for wearing with skirts in summer (one brown, one black), a pair of sensible flat, lace-up black shoes (that need replacing) for wearing with trousers in winter and a pair of joggers for walking and casual wear! Oh, and a pair of ugh boots (ankle length) - my winter slippers! I guess I like my comfort!! LOL
I love the story of Fisher library!
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