Since the comment was that "shoes change your whole outfit" and "if your hair and shoes are fabulous it hardly matters what else you wear", I am not sure what this means... out of luck how? Rise above styles and trends meaning what? Or was it just a way to try to make those of us who are "into" such shallow trivialities as fashionable shoes feel lesser?
-Kalera
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Diana Curtis wrote: > The most stylish woman I ever met rarely wore shoes. Perhaps youre one of > those who rise above styles and trends. > Diana, barefoot if at all possible >
I am simply in awe of orange patent leather clogs. YUM! Too bad they're starting to wear a bit. I am curently on the prowl for some lime green clogs, which I'm not finding... yet.
Yes! Finally. I am very conditioned against pampering myself... I have been able to justify "good" cookware because it's used to prepare meals for the whole family and I do cook a lot... but shoes have always seemed like such an indulgence. I mean, something nice *just for me*? No way!
Giving myself permission to buy nice, new shoes, just the shoes I want, has actually changed a lot about how I look at my life. I drove past a chair that had a "free" sign on it today, LOL! I don't *have* to take it just because it's there and "I might be able to use it". I don't *have* to clutter my house with stuff I "might be able to use someday". Furthermore, I *can* go to the park by myself for an hour, or read a book, or sit in the yard, or be kind to myself in countless other ways... I don't have to be productive all the time, I can rest sometimes. I don't have to feel guilty for being on the newsgroup, it's fun, not a waste of time! Treating myself kindly is not a waste of time or a waste of money. Wearing shoes that I only got because they were socondhand or on clearance doesn't prove that I'm responsible or devoted, and for heaven's sake it hasn't saved me any money... I tallied up how much I have spent on cheap shoes here and there over the last three years and I *could* have bought myself a p[air or two of nice shoes instead of twenty different Goodwill $4.99 pairs! All because I just had to get them because they're "better than I can afford new".
For my part in it, the "out of luck" comment refers to the fact that I'm lucky to find shoes that fit, much less fabulous shoes. And of course, in Alaska I can't just wear nail polish and toe rings.
And my hair? After 30 years of deficient thyroid, and my hair breaking shorter (without cutting it) every year, I can never count on great hair either.
Attaining a "look" from fabulous hair and shoes will never e an option for me, so I know I need to rely on completely different criteria. I need to rise above the (usual) options that are available to most people.
Yeah. Not much choice in Alaska though. There's no one in Fairbanks who does that work, and I don't know of anyone in Anchorage. At around 600,000 population for all of Alaska, less than many cities, we have fewer than usual resources here. The guy I asked did not usually do foot wear; he was just the first possibility. I had figured that if I considered $75 to $100 an acceptable price for manufactured shoes, three or four times that sounded about right for custom-made.
At 55 and overweight, that aint a pretty sight. Not that I always let that stop me. With all the trees and so few neighbours, going outside is not unusual here.
Christina Peterson wrote: > At 55 and overweight, that aint a pretty sight. Not that I always let that > stop me. With all the trees and so few neighbours, going outside is not > unusual here.
"Pretty" is a nice word, so I feel about it a lot like I feel about the word "nice".
It's not an insult, and being called pretty feels nice, but there are better things to be. I have known a lot of people who are neither pretty nor nice, but who are attractive, trustworthy, beautiful, honest, strong, generous, delightful, charismatic, and any number of other adjectives that are, IMO, better than pretty or nice.
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