Becoming a girly girl, one blister at a time

Last week I came to a realization: I need some more shoes.   

I think this makes me a strange person.  Women my age are supposed to be all, "OMG I am totally not allowed to buy anymore shoes, I have three hundred pairs already but I saw these cute little slingbacks and and I just HAD to have them so OOPS I bought another pair of shoes!"  Right?  I mean, that's what it was like on Sex and the City, and everyone knows that Carrie Bradshaw was a completely realistic and accurate portrayal of the modern woman.

I think my problem is just that I'm lazy.  It takes enough effort to throw a presentable outfit together in the morning; an outfit that hopefully includes clean pants and a shirt in the same color scheme and if I'm feeling really crazy, maybe even a belt.  Shoes?  No time to worry about those, gotta run out the door.  I have a black pair and a brown pair that live under my desk at my office.  I wear sneakers in to work, rocking what I like to call the Waitress Look, because it's a mile-long walk - uphill - and I just cannot do that in fancy shoes.  Plus, I need my running shoes for going to the gym after work and those bitches are bulky.  I don't feel like carrying them.  It just makes more sense to wear them on my feet, and if I lose a few fashion points... so be it. 

And if I "forget" to change out of my sneakers once I get to work and end up wearing them all day?  WHOOPS.  My bad.

But no more!  Operation Cute Shoes began this weekend.  It is a three-pronged assault.

1. Buy new shoes
2. Get rid of old shoes that I never wear to make space in our teeeensy little closet for new shoes.
3. WEAR NEW SHOES (as opposed to letting them sit in the closet, withering away in loneliness) 

Number one was accomplished on Saturday with a trip to Filene's Basement.  I got not one, not two, but three new pairs of shoes!  GO ME!

And number three was accomplished this morning when I actually remembered to pack my new pair of patent leather red flats in my tote bag and THEN actually put them on once I got to work.   I now have a massive blister on my left heel, but damnit, THEY ARE WORTH IT.

Unfortunately, this little Operation had a tragic casualty: my monthly budget.  Shoes like that call out for a cute outfit.  And so after our trip to Filene's (where I also somehow spent $100 on new bras), we trekked on over to Ann Taylor, where I took home three pairs of pants and two shirts and a credit card with a hole burnt through it.   So tell me, how do you like my new Business Pants?  I hope you think they're as cute as I do, because I bought them in capri length and full length.  May the Lord in Heaven bless Ann Taylor forever and ever amen for making petite sizes that ACTUALLY FIT PETITE PEOPLE.   Petite people who are not rail thin and have hips and are freakishly short, not like some other stores I know, AHEM JCREW.  AND GAP.   YOU ARE DEAD TO ME.

So, that was my weekend.  I also dropped off my car for some service and I might possibly have to consider returning everything I bought on Saturday if the repairs to my trusty chariot end up being expensive.  But we're not thinking about that right now, because the blister on my left heel is precluding me from thinking about anything but how badly I want to put my sneakers on right now.

Comments

[Angela]

Oh boy! Shoes!! I'm that girl you mentioned up there who just has to have that cute pair of shoes in the window every time I go shopping, so I get very excited when I see new shoe converts.

Let me tell you though, bandaids and Blister Block (you can usually find it in the aisle with all of the insoles) will become your best friend while you're breaking in your shoes. And anytime one of your blisters starts to hurt, just think about all of the people in the world who are looking at your shoes and wondering where they can find a pair just like it!

[Justin]

Ditch the car, buy a bike and get a pair of these: http://www.sidiusa.com/ergo2_S08.html

Now THOSE are nice shoes. ;-)

[Laurel]

Love the shoes! I do the opposite lazy thing--buy a lot of clothes in black / grey / white neutral colors and assume I'm being fashionable by adding wilder shoes.

Whatever, it works.

[RA]

I also love AT Petites. If I walk into a store somewhere that for some ungodly reason DOES NOT have a petites section, I just do an about-face and truck it out of there. There is no point in browsing through a non-petite stores. No point.

I find that vaseline and band-aids are a good blister fix. The vaseline cuts down on the friction, you see.

[elise]

Do you remember when you were a kid, and the weather finally warmed up enough for you to run around outside, sans shoes? Remember how at the start of every summer your feet would hurt as you would walk, barefoot, down the asphalted streets? And by the end of the summer your feet were tough as nails and you could walk just about anywhere with little to no problems?

That's just how "cute" shoes are to your feet. Brave the blisters now, and in a few weeks, you'll be good to go!

[Erin]

Cute Shoes!

I came late to the girly shoe club. I used to wear the same old shoes to work every single day. Not sure when it happened, but suddenly I felt the urge to buy new shoes...even when the old ones weren't worn out!

Also, band-aid makes a blister blocker...its a rub-on stick that keeps the friction of your shoes off your little feet. I chase preschoolers in my cute shoes and I rarely get blisters!

[-R-]

I love the shoes and the pants! Now you must show us the other new shoes.

Ann Taylor Loft Petites and I are BFF.

[Lindsey]

ATL=best store ever! I love how their pants fit and I love the pants you chose! I need to get my booty over there and get some new pants for fall. For some reason, I feel like I've just been rotating the same 5 pairs of pants. Wait, maybe it's because I have. I need new shoes too...I also tend to get the black/brown staples and wear them over and over and over again. I also need new bras DESPERATELY! I think I might join you on your little "operation."

[heidikins]

Cute cute cute! Love the red flats, am desperately awaiting photos of other recently acquired footwear.

That's all,
xoxo