Task completed: March 2007
This is probably the best item to check off ever! I am by nature a shoe-lover. I am also a purse-lover. I love any and all matching purse and shoe combos, I also love weirdly coloured shoes and purses. But mostly my love has brought me nothing but emptiness because I have been pining over a sacred pair of boots since 2003.
When I first moved to Fredericton I walked by a shoe store on Queen Street quite regularly for work. In the window were the most gorgeous pair of camel, mid-calf boots I have ever seen. The reason for my love is simple. These boots had a slight, one-inch heel, so they looked more like motorcycle boots than out-on-the-town boots. I loved these boots. But alas they cost $260 and I refused to shell out that much cash for a pair of shoes I would wear only two seasons each year.
Instead, I chose to visit these boots regularly, much to the dismay of the clerk who was constantly pulling them of the back room and letting me try them on. One day I got bold and talked the man down to paying $220 taxes in. But still I could not do it. I continued to visit the boots until I moved out of Fredericton in October 2005.
I thought that was it. I had forgotten about the boots, knowing they would be out of season, even though they're Hush Puppies, and classic-looking (and would remain stylish forever!).
Until... I ran into the same pair of boots in March 2007 at a clearing out sale in an out of the way family shoe store. And lo and behold... THEY WERE ON SALE! I'm not talking half price either. The boots of my dreams were on sale for the low price of $99 since the line was finally being discontinued. Imagine my glee. Imagine my friends laughing as I walked around the store in these boots proudly professing my long-standing love for the boots that got away.
To parse Emily Carr's famouse quote:
These are my boots. What I want to express is in them. I love them. Amen!
This is probably the best item to check off ever! I am by nature a shoe-lover. I am also a purse-lover. I love any and all matching purse and shoe combos, I also love weirdly coloured shoes and purses. But mostly my love has brought me nothing but emptiness because I have been pining over a sacred pair of boots since 2003.
When I first moved to Fredericton I walked by a shoe store on Queen Street quite regularly for work. In the window were the most gorgeous pair of camel, mid-calf boots I have ever seen. The reason for my love is simple. These boots had a slight, one-inch heel, so they looked more like motorcycle boots than out-on-the-town boots. I loved these boots. But alas they cost $260 and I refused to shell out that much cash for a pair of shoes I would wear only two seasons each year.
Instead, I chose to visit these boots regularly, much to the dismay of the clerk who was constantly pulling them of the back room and letting me try them on. One day I got bold and talked the man down to paying $220 taxes in. But still I could not do it. I continued to visit the boots until I moved out of Fredericton in October 2005.
I thought that was it. I had forgotten about the boots, knowing they would be out of season, even though they're Hush Puppies, and classic-looking (and would remain stylish forever!).
Until... I ran into the same pair of boots in March 2007 at a clearing out sale in an out of the way family shoe store. And lo and behold... THEY WERE ON SALE! I'm not talking half price either. The boots of my dreams were on sale for the low price of $99 since the line was finally being discontinued. Imagine my glee. Imagine my friends laughing as I walked around the store in these boots proudly professing my long-standing love for the boots that got away.
To parse Emily Carr's famouse quote:
These are my boots. What I want to express is in them. I love them. Amen!
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Congrats on finding the perfect boots!
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