Sunday, December 6, 2009
5:57 AM
Earth Shoes
I looked and looked for a picture that better represents the earth shoes that my friends and I wore in late jr. high/early high school but I have yet to find one. This particular pair is quite ugly. In a way, so were the ones we wore but at least ours didn't look like old man shoes. I think this pair looks terminally geriatric. Nonetheless, earth shoes became all the rage at the end of my 8th grade year. My friend Dian had a blue suede pair that I wanted so much I could barely stand it but the family budget was very, very strained that year and my mom just couldn't justify spending for an expensive pair of shoes that I didn't need. I had lots of sneakers and a few pairs of nice school shoes, as well so it's not as though I was hurting for shoes but man, did I ever want some of those blue suede earth shoes. I never got those but the following fall, (the beginning of my 9th grade year) Anthony's got some fairly cool earth shoes in stock and my mom allowed me to get a pair of those. Over the course of the next year or two, I got a couple more pairs of earth shoes including a really nice brown suede pair bought for me by my dad at the beginning of my 10th grade school year. I loved that pair a lot because they were the suede I had long wanted and they were name-brand instead of Anthony's generics. (No offense to my mom intended in that statement. I loved the ones she bought for me and besides that, she bought me lots of name brand shoes over the years, while that one pair is the only pair of shoes my dad ever bought for me in my entire life)
Fortunately the earth shoe went out of style almost as quickly as it had come into style. It was replaced by the preppy-inspired loafer styles that are still my favorites today. I heart preppy. In spite of the fact that I've never been rich, I've still always been a sporty prep at heart and that is definitely my chosen style.
Glad I dragged you through that long, drawn-out ode to shoes? You're welcome. And take heart. It's not over. There are more shoe tales to come. By the time I'm finished, you, too will appreciate the fine artistry that is shoe design. Oh, yes. You will. Don't even try to fight it. lol