Supposedly, it’s still summer. Granted, weather here lately hasn’t exactly been the perfect picture of the season, nevertheless, it is still summer. As a result, my feet are revolting.
Let me explain: during the summer I’m not a shoe guy. Once it’s warm enough (daytime temps in the 60’s) I ditch the socks and shoes and hit the flip-flops and sandals exclusively. There might normally be three days tops where I’ll wear shoes during the summer months. Now that I’m working back in the office again things have changed, and my feet are not happy about it.
Our current dress policy requires the wearing of shoes for gents. Yes, no more sandals or flip-flops at work, both of which were allowed the last time I worked in the office during the summer (which was during 2005). Although I was barefoot and working from home when the policy change went into effect I could already feel my feet sweat just reading the email. Now I’m living it. It’s bad enough just having my “dogs” confined during the work hours, but to compound the issue I’ve found that most of my shoes no longer fit. My feet seem to have grown at least a half size in most cases, rendering many of my shoes unwearable. I have four pair of Converse (yes, four) that still seem ok (two are approaching snugness), a pair of Skechers that are decent, although they are hella heavy. I had three pair of Vans which has been whittled down to one which is barely passable. In all I believe I’ve ditched close to 8 pair of shoes in the past 5 weeks. My first thought is that I don’t have enough options! Then again, maybe I really don’t need that many.
Most days I’ve been slipping off my shoes and letting them breathe some, with the hopes in the back of my mind that I’m not going to poison anyone close by with noxious feet-fumes. What I’d like to find is a pair of leather slip-on shoes that don’t look like crap. Not an easy task, I’ve found. Skechers has a couple pair, but I’ve not liked any of them. GBX has one that I need to try on and see. Most of the ones I’ve looked at all look like ankle-high non-lacing hiking boots, which is not the look I’m after. I need a more casual work appropriate shoe that’s just easy to slip on and off so I can let my dogs out to breathe (to hell with my workmates noses).
Posted on August 27th, 2008 @ 2:39 PM by James
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