Monday, April 02, 2007
Shoes
Part of my birthright as a woman is supposed to be purchasing and wearing cute shoes. Occasionally (usually while watching "What Not To Wear") I think to myself that I've really got to buy some cute shoes. I look at shoe web sites or in the window of the Designer Shoe Warehouse. And somehow I always wind up with another pair of walking shoes that are screamingly dull.

The "problem" is that I walk an awful lot. I recently noted that I was expecting to have lunch and shop in downtown San Francisco, and instead I wound up hiking around the Sutro Baths. Luckily, since all of my shoes are insanely practical, I was wearing a pair of clunky black sandals and this presented absolutely no problem. I was even able to scamper through the damp sand on the floor of the man-made cave there. That was Thursday. On Friday, I walked about three miles to return a library book and run a couple errands. Saturday night, I trekked all the way up California Street. Wearing uncomfortable shoes would make me a slave to cabs or close-by parking spaces (a rarity around here).

I know there are cute flats -- I've bought some, but they never have the proper support and cushioning required for walking. Many times I've wound up with blisters as a result, and had to go back to my Eccos. (It looks like they have come out with a few styles that are actually verging on being fashionable -- these, for instance.) All the while, I dream of wearing these instead.

One of my weekend highlights was seeing the Brown Twins. A Twins sighting is always cause for excitement. I had no idea until I read their Wikipedia entry that the Twins are originally from West Michigan (Kalamazoo, no less) -- we have something in common! The Twins were making their way up Powell St. carrying Walgreen's bags. When you live on Nob Hill as the Twins do, you've gotta wear sensible shoes. Seriously, in every photo of the San Francisco Twins, they may be wearing fancy fur coats, but that footwear is made for hill climbin'.
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