I spent my lunch hour running around town going into multiple shoe stores and leaving empty-handed. *sigh* I need new shoes. I need new shoes for my trip to New Orleans. My trip is in 2 weeks and 1 day. You live and die on your feet in NOLA. The last time I went in 2003, I had a pair of Nikes and a pair of Birks. After a day of walking and standing for nearly 16 hours on various hard surfaces, including cobblestone streets, my feet were just killing me and it was clear neither pair of shoes that I had had enough support to get me through the rest of the trip. My trip roommie, Erica, decided she was in the same boat and she was determined to get new shoes. We went to the mall and walked into the first shoe store she saw and basically just asked for the most comfortable shoes they had. The saleman put us both in a pair of Merrells that were just rock star. I wore them the entire rest of that trip and I’m actually wearing them right now.
They’re still comfortable but I’m thinking that after three years and a lot of use that the support and padding have to be a lot less than what they were originally. So I’m on the hunt for new shoes. Of course they don’t make the style I already have anymore, because that would be too simple.
I’ve tried on at least a dozen pairs of different styles and brands at about seven different shoe stores. I’m currently in shoe shopping obsession mode. Which sucks, because, I hate shoe shopping. HATE. I always have an idea of exactly what I want and I can never find it. It used to be that I’d find it but it would be the most expensive pair of shoes in the store and that would stop me, but no more. I’ve realized that its better to pay $150 for a pair of shoes I’ll wear constantly for three years than to pay $70 for a pair that I just kind of like and then they’ll sit in the closet and Mac will sleep on them. However, giving into the idea of just buying whatever I want no matter the cost (do note however, that I would never pay $400 for a pair of Jimmy Chos, I’m not a shoe person. I just want them to be comfortable and not tacky) seems to have really only meant now I can just never find ANYTHING I like.
I asked Lisa what she had for NOLA shoes and she told me she had a pair of Skechers, which I’d dismissed as a novelty shoe line… something to do with American Idol winners shilling for their product probably did it. I was just perusing their website and found these: 
They have rhinestones, they have to be considered.
I showed them to Lisa. They’re the exact shoes that she already has! Too funny. We’re too predictable.
Afterwork tonight I’m buying new shoes of some kind. I am on a mission. It must be done.
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February 7th, 2006 at 3:28 pm
I, too, hate shoe shopping. I don’t know why women are supposed to love it. Maybe my feet are too big and the sizes available to me are limited. I have my standard styles that last me forever - brown open-toe sandal, brown closed-toe shoe, black open-toe sandal, black closed-toe shoe, tennies, Birks. One of those will do for 90% of my wardrobe needs. In anticipation of my expanding feet due to swelling and the like, I have picked up a pair of Crocs. So while I would volunteer to help you hunt tonight, I don’t really want to. Sorry. :)
February 8th, 2006 at 11:56 am
I have those shoes (mine are chocolate with raspberry accents). They are pretty comfy, they got me around Chicago all day.