Shoes for dummies

Who would have known that after all this years, all the technology and research that designers could be wrong about the only thing that they were supposed to get right; designing ergonomic foot wear. Obviously, some of them missed their calling. Or should I say most?

Since we now know that we’ve  been hammering our heels every time we went for a  jog, its a high time we carefully picked our foot wear, especially those that we play in.

Now that we are on the same page, and as thick as thieves, allow me to let you in on a story about a man and his ill fitting shoes.

Not so long ago, there was this young man who had just received his first pair of shoes; as a present for his birthday.Turned out that the shoes were not a perfect fit for him.

They were a size smaller and as a result hurt his feet and caused him pain. Whats worse, he never complained or went without them and amid the pain he wore them with pride as one may be proud of something that causes them misery.

Mostly because he had no prior experience in footwear, and thus he did not know if shoes were supposed to hurt one’s feet. He had never heard anyone complain about their shoes. And so he thought that shoes were actually supposed to hurt one’s feet and that one was not supposed to complain about it.

And so with pride, he wore his pain day in day out until the shoes were worn out and his feet almost damaged.

As someone with a passion for fashion, I wonder why there were no books like Shoes for dummies or even a simple manual about how to wear shoes.

Because even to this day, people continue to squeeze their feet in small sized shoes and bear the pain just to look good or to have a particular look. And the situation keeps getting worse as the shoes are not designed ergonimically and it is those shoes that we end up squeezing our feet into.

– bbc

Socks, tights and stockings

Most people wear socks to school and work, others wear them during special occasions only. Of course except for those who do not.

They were perhaps invented to afford warmth but have now been ingeniously turned into fashionable pieces and perhaps a must have for women. They have been transformed into shapes, styles and materials never imagined before.

Ballet dancing, working out, doing yoga, jogging, name an activity and I will name a special sock for that activity. They’ve become an integral and irreplaceable part of fashion.

Sock theory, an online boutique based in New York wants to extend a hand and help every lady achieve that fashionable look they yearn for  irrespective of their simple and elegant tastes, sensitive or picky personalities.

In other words, their collection is bespoke and will fulfill that desire for a new or inspired look.

SockTheory offers an exquisite collection of different kinds of socks including knee highs, thigh highs, socks, tights, and stockings.

If you are a socks person, you are going to love these ones. If you are not, you’ll fall in love without even trying.

The ugly truth about the ugg boots

The ugly truth about ugly things is that its ugly. Perfection in fashion is as rare as truth in science or justice in law or honesty in politics.

The ugg boots, their ugg:ness is short lived by being worn. And unlike crocs or other popular footwear, the do literary wear off the moment they are worn.

I have not worn a pair so far but I think that comfy, lightness or coziness depending on the wearer is the main asset.

Looking at a pair worn over a few days feels like looking at a badly stored loaf of bread. Specifically one that is not able to hold is intended shape anymore.

Ugghhrrrrr, only if breads could be baked to be breads.

Thats an amazing feat for a shoe, not! What makes the bread terrible for footwear is that it loses structural support not only externally but also internally and to make matters worse, it does that in a record time.

Within two weeks of constant wear, one can already make out the shape of the wearers leg from the outside, the inner expands sometimes adopting the shape of the wearer’s feet. Most often surpassing any ideal shape for a shoe or a leg for that matter.

And if that is not enough, like a structure that is so much in need of demolition, the uggs can no longer stand on themselves.

Structural reinforcement would be needed to get to 30. And by then, the soles will have given way, making the pair looks like a home experiment gone wrong.

And I can’t help but wonder how they manage to get these stuff to fly of the shelves. But then again it was an indoor shoe made transformed to an outdoor affair without much thought..