Most women love shoes. Some more than others (not me), but even the ones who don’t love shoes, love the look of a new pair of shoes and how they finish off an outfit, for example. I’m slightly out of the norm. Though I have a lot of shoes (far less than I used to since our major ‘crap purge’ of 2008), I don’t often buy shoes. And when i find a pair that I like, I wear them to death.
But every now and then I get the urge to add a new pair to my happy little shoe family. And when I got this job, I celebrated with a couple of beauties. They are a deep cranberry red patin leather with a round toe and a wedge heel. They are stunning. And when I got dressed this morning, I felt it was high time to break them out.
I walked to the bus stop, rode all the way downtown and didn’t pay much attention to them. They are slightly snug, but they are new, and that’s to be expected. Once I was off the bus and heading toward my office, I noticed they were a little pinchy in a couple of spots, but again, didn’t pay much attention. It wasn’t until I got to my office and sat down, that I looked down. My beautiful, new, red shoes had made me bleed. It wasn’t dripping or gross, but these shoes are so kick ass, they bypassed the whole blister phase altogether and went straight for blood.
Will this little bloody incident stop me from wearing them again? Absolutely not. Call me an optimist, but I just see it as part of the whole ‘breaking them in’ phase. Next time they’ll just be a little more comfortable than they are today. I hope. My ankles can’t take much more abuse.
Jen - funny cause I’m having a similar issue today. i’ve actually had to resort to stuffing toilet paper in the toe area a few minutes ago so that i wouldn’t be tempted to kick them off and run around in bare feet the rest of the day. its not really helping though.
oh the things we do!
Carole - Where’s your Band-Aid stick, Shan? ;O)