Showing posts with label summer 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label summer 2012. Show all posts

Friday, 30 March 2012

The Wedge

Around this time of the year -- every year -- I get an irrational anxiety about sandals.  SANDALS.  Sandals.  I shop around for them for months and never find a good pair, and before I know it the season is over!  In my younger (albeit lazier) days, I just walked into a pair of Havianas and thought I looked amazing.  No.  No, no, no, NO, NO!  As I get older, the more I see a pair of flip-flops the sloppier they look to me.  I am convinced that flip-flops are now only meant for lounging, running to the convenience store around the corner, or vacationing in the sand.  After out-growing flip-flops I upgraded to something a little more developed:  the Birkenstock sandal.  Yes, still a slipper, but not so much a piece of useless rubber.  After a while, though, I started to feel like a lazy hippie...or that I looked a bit sloppy.  Two summers ago I experimented with a couple of different pairs of strappy sandals.  I had a pair of flat black strappy sandals that had fierce studs all over them.  I had a pair of black leather gladiators that were terribly uncomfortable.  And I had a pair of pale pink wedge sandals.  I've gotten rid of every pair since then, and I truly regret throwing away those cute pink wedges!  Last year I fell back into my laziness and ran around in flip-flops, Birkenstocks or flats.

BUT!  This year I say: NO MORE!  I am determined to get a pair of COMFORTABLE and CUTE wedge sandals this year.  Here are a few that I've picked out...I need to have them all.