This is what I’ve been reduced to hunting for. A pair of shoes, (high heels,) that only cost $20. As an aspiring fashionista with a wandering mind and open eyes, I look for beautiful things. And they’re hard to find when you have a budget. So, instead of wandering around displays in department stores, looking at the wonderful eye candy that is called designer labels, I scurry from thrift store to knock-off-brands store to closing-sale-store to I-would-never-admit-I-shop-here stores. And at last, after an hour of franticly searching for price tags on the soles of shoes, I have found a beautiful pair. They were the right pair. They were dark. They were glittery. They were stilettos. And only for 20 dollars!!! I was overjoyed! But, they were a size 5. A few sizes too small for my now aching size 8 feet, which were squeezed in my now-too-small boots. I almost gave up. Almost. And there, in the same store, I saw rows upon rows of shoes in the same make… but in beautiful, beautiful, Gold! Yes! And there was a pair, one pair, in my size! I’d been searching forever to find an inexpensive, stable, no trying-to-pass-for-real-leather-but-miserably-failing shoes! When I put them on, they looked wonderful. I was so far from the ground that it felt as if I was at the top of the world! I could walk in these shoes! But then, it all came crashing down. Well, not really. The inexpensive-ness, the stable-ness, the glittery-ness did not surpass or even outweigh (in the littlest) the amount of pain it caused my feet in those seconds. I was almost brought to tears, as I placed these shoes back on the tabled they belonged on. But, there is no point in buying a pair of shoes, however beautiful, if it’ll cause discomfort. Looking back, I’m glad I didn’t buy those, because if I did, they would’ve caused more pain to my feet than it caused to my shopper’s spirit.
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