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30 Mar 2005

I think most men seem to be intimidated by shirts that are pink or even purple. Because, as we all know, wearing pink or purple means you’re a fag. Or something. So, at TJ Maxx, say, if there are a bunch of nice shirts on sale, the only ones left in my size are largely pink or purple. Now, I have no problem wearing pink and purple, and I’m a cheapskate to boot. The result is that I have a disproportionate amount of pink and purple shirts.

ugly shoe thing

Also, what is up with men’s shoe design these days? What is with every single shoe being some weird slip-on with a gigantic square toe. Whatever happened to a good old wingtip, or a loafer. Is that so much to ask? I mean, what is that thing supposed to be? Do I have to go to fucking Johnston & Murphy to get a pair of shoes that doesn’t look like it’s some sort of square-footed freak cobbler clown-shoe accident? Maybe I can learn to cobble.

Rockports are the only shoes I buy these days, and they are expensive and doubly-expensive to have re-soled. What’s a man to do?

Comments

Perci — March 31, 2005 at 04:48 · reply

You have to wear the square-footed freak shoes to balance out the extreme points on the women’s freak shoes.

(And how do you manage to wear out the soles of Rockports before the insides are so torn up they’re not worth having re-soled?)

cwage — March 31, 2005 at 04:55 · reply

I have actually had pretty good luck with the insides. They are comfortable, I’ll give them that. But i have one pair that already has a massive hole and a current pair well on their way.

There’s evidently an authorized rockport re-soler that you can ship them off to but it was like $30-40 a pop to get them re-soled, plus shipping. Screw that!

Muffy Wong — March 31, 2005 at 14:53 · reply

There’s a shoe store in East Nashville that is (as a conservative co-worker described) very flamboyant. It’s owned by an older gent, and is called Abe’s Shoes Store. I think.

I’m going to check it out one of these days - apparently the clientelle is primarily pimpin’ black men who want really snazzy, yellow or brightly colored dress shoes. Price range $50 and up.

Sounds interesting.

I like shoes.

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