Shoes, Glorious Shoes

I went on a Crusade yesterday, to find a nice pair of comfy black sandals. I wanted some that would hold up to some serious walking, since I’ll be in San Francisco on Tuesday. Most of my sandals have been worn to the point where you can separate the soles. Not so good.

Last night I was meeting a good friend for dessert, and we chose to meet at the Tyson’s Corner Galleria where they have some nice restaurants. I arrived early and decided to window shop and hopefully find some good shoe sales.

If you’ve never been to the Galleria, let’s just say that it is the Mecca of shopping. We’re talking Prada and Ferragamo shoes. The kind where each shoe needs a personal security system. I don’t know if you’re like me, but inevitably I spy a pair of super-cute shoes and go to check them out.

$450. :confused54:

How is it possible? Now, maybe they are the most rockin’ shoes in the universe, but $450? Dang, those shoes had better come with built-in massagers. And those soles had better be made of platinum. So I dropped those shoes pretty fast and decided that, er…maybe this wasn’t the right store for me.

Note to self: One day, when I hit a bestseller list, I might buy a pair of shoes like that. But then again, I’m a practical girl. More likely I’d use that $450 for a plane ticket somewhere cool…like Ireland. :beer:

I wandered up to the third floor of the Galleria and found another store with a 60% off sale. Now we’re talking. Once again, I found pairs of plane-ticket shoes, but the sale rack wasn’t too bad. But even when a pair of $195 shoes is marked down to $99, you have to ask yourself–am I really going to wear these? Am I going to get that much use out of them? And is the white stitching on black leather really that distracting?

In the end, I put them back. Just couldn’t bring myself to spend the money, even though they truly were comfortable. So today, I’m going to another mall and will hopefully find something more reasonable in price and still cushy for my big old feet (size 10). Ack. Something that doesn’t look like I strapped surf boards onto my feet.

So here’s a question. Let’s say that you had the money where you could drop $500 on a pair of shoes without even missing the money. Would you do it?