For some time now I have been looking for a pair of green shoes/sandals to go with a specific outfit - no luck though.
I wonder - what has happened to smart, elegant, feminine shoes? All the shops near me are full of very heavy clompy things that could almost be described as unisex - or else trainers (which i wouldn’t be seen dead in!) and/or nasty plastic things called ‘crocs’. Even most of those seem to be wide or ‘comfort’ fitting.
I have seen women in really pretty summer frocks - with trainers ( shudder) on their feet. Have we lost our sense of style? Do people not look in mirrors anymore?
All I need is a pair of ‘D’ fitting, lightweight, smart shoes/sandals with high heels - I’ll even settle for black if I can’t find green. Maybe I’ll have to find a proper cordwainer rather than a shop - in which case - send advice on £10 notes please!
Well of course you’re absolutely correct in your assumption that we’re classy, sophisticated, well educated, well travelled, a First in English etc. etc.
AND I know where to put my apostrophes daaahling
But the above was me quoting Muddy, I mistakenly thought she’d posted the first line of a Limerick!
Mupsy will understand, she might even add the third line!
“All the classy ladies wear trainers
And some of them are Entertainers
Now swimmy’s upset
And he’s really such a pet
The rest are merely abstainers”
Poor tabby can’t find any shoes
she’s looked in the shop’s but no clues
there’s no green or black
well that’s a setback
they do trainers in black green or blue…
It’s definitely more difficult to buy shoes now. Quality has gone downhill. Choice is reduced. I’ve just sent two pairs ordered online back. Impossible to buy any in an actual shop because so many shops have closed over the pandemic.
Whilst some do, not all trainer wearers are classy. Around my neck of the woods there are several who are far from classy, or as I believe the phrase is ‘right slappers’, but I have noticed that classy court shoes tend to be conspicuous by their absence.
The retail price of some trainers are prohibitive for all but the well off, so there are plenty of fakes around.
I do too unless I’m going anywhere where some kind of formal dress is expected.
The modern trainers are relatively new to shoe sales and the nearest I wore in the late 50’s into the early 60’s were baseball type boots.
I never thought I would wear trainers unless I was doing something active, but I found that being on my feet all day with work was so much better in the informal type of setting.
I couldn’t wear pointy heels now I don’t think…not that I’ve tried!
