Miscellaneous: April 2005 Archives
No knitting to show off today, instead I have to show off the treasures I picked up at City Soles, my favorite shoe store in Chicago. John and I have been trying to walk more now that it's warming up, and I decided that I needed a fun pair of hip urban athletically-styled shoes. You should all know that while I know what I like when it comes to shoes, I have absolutely no deep shoe brand knowledge beyond the ones that I hear about watching Sex and the City reruns. Since I have yet to see Carrie Bradshaw discuss urban walking shoes I was on my own. But I think I did pretty well.
Originally, smitten with all the orange I've run across on a certain blog, I wanted the pair with the orange laces, stripes and camoflauge accents. But the only size they had left was a 6.5, which is a bit small for me -- apparently orange is in this year.
"No surprise," says the hip funky salesguy, "they're Tsubos, after all".
So I opted for the yellow instead, surprised that I'd actually come to agreement with others on what is hip and trendy, and because not only are they fun and cute, but they are also delightfully comfortable and wonderful for walking -- form meets function.
I can only hope that the Manolo, were the Manolo to be into these sort of shoes, would find them to be super fantastic. I'm hoping they go nicely with a pink spongy sweater.
