I ordered a pair of sandals from Zappo dot com yesterday. This is my preferred method of acquiring shoes. For those of you who have seen my feet, not only do you know that they are my best feature, but also that they are damn skinny. Buying narrow shoes is a bitch. I am categorically excluded from 99% of cute shoes; therefore, to avoid the agony of shoe shopping in public, I prefer to buy them in a dark room, alone, in front of a computer, where no one can hear me crying.
Zappos allows one to choose "NARROW" and then all the narrow shoes I could possibly want appear on the screen and I don't have to see what I'm missing out on. I click through until I see something that I like, and then I buy it. If they don't fit or I hate them in person, then I take advantage of their free return shipping/100% cash refund option and it's like nothing ever happened.
I ordered my new sandals yesterday around noon and when I got home today from "work," there they were waiting for me in their little box. That's fast! I like the shoes, but they make a sort of weird air noise when I take a step. Somewhere between a baby's breath and a baby's fart. Maybe only I can hear it. They're pretty comfortable and look good, though they regrettably do not seem to be of the same quality as maudit standard SAS. I get pissy at SAS because they're the only purveyor of narrow shoes that I can rely on, and their shoes designs are targeted towards women in floral blouses who remember what they were doing the day Kennedy was assasinated. I've been wearing granny-assed shoes since high school and I get tired of it. You'd think that in our thin-obsessed culture, thin feet would be rewarded with a multitude of beautiful, stylish shoes. BUT NO. Those of you with obese feet, especially those of you who can wear Crocs, are oddly rewarded and considered normal. But why?
Posted by Zerd at June 27, 2007 04:48 PM