{"id":2566,"date":"2011-03-30T23:20:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T06:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/?p=2566"},"modified":"2011-03-30T23:24:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T06:24:01","slug":"irony-of-buying-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2011\/03\/30\/irony-of-buying-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Irony of buying shoes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;dress shoes, that is!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be attending two weddings this year (AFAIK!) \ud83d\ude42 One is this Saturday and the other in October for <a title=\"Sheryl &amp; Peter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sherylandpeter.com\">Sheryl &amp; Peter<\/a>&#8216;s big day! But back to the shoes&#8230; I looked at my shoe closet and I have NOTHING to wear for this Sunday! I have like, 4 types of minimalist running shoes, 2 pairs of my old running shoes, even the shoes I used for basketball! Alongside numerous flip-flops, flats, gladiator sandals(!), and my treasured pairs of Sanuk&#8230; BUT NO dressy pumps. WTH.<\/p>\n<p>So I went &#8220;shoe&#8221; shopping and realised a couple of things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have trouble justifying buying a pair of shoes that are $90+ and I&#8217;d prolly end up only wearing them once or twice a year. O_o OK, so my running shoes were around $80 to $100, but they&#8217;re for health! \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<li>I have wide feet. Not like, size EEEEEEEEEE but wide enough that dressy pumps are a bit uncomfy to wear. +_+ BTW, I really think those shoes were\u00a0designed for women with only 3 toes or at least have super narrow feet!<\/li>\n<li>On top of having wide feet, I also have SMALL feet! I normally wear a 6.5 for athletic shoes but a tiny 5.5 for dress shoes. FIVE \u00a0and a HALF. Do you know how difficult it was to find shoes that small?! IN THE WESTERN WORLD! Hahahaha&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyway, long story short&#8230; (too late), I went to Marshall&#8217;s and nearly got these &#8220;old lady&#8221; style pumps this afternoon. Luckily, my blood sugar was dropping (i.e., hungry!) so I left the store without buying them. This evening, at Choir Practice, my friend Stephanie and I were kinda chatting about my shoe dilemma so I decided to go shopping again with Steph&#8217;s tips&#8230; and then I found these:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2567\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/2011\/03\/guess-peep-toe-calandra.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2567\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2567\" title=\"Cute? (_) Yes! (_) Not\" src=\"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/2011\/03\/guess-peep-toe-calandra-360x270.jpg\" alt=\"Cute? (_) Yes! (_) Not\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/2011\/03\/guess-peep-toe-calandra-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/2011\/03\/guess-peep-toe-calandra-180x135.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/2011\/03\/guess-peep-toe-calandra.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2567\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cute? (_) Yes! (_) Not<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was the last pair in my size, and the exact shade I was searching for! The price tag? $40! SCORE. ^_^ The fit was good but let&#8217;s\u00a0how my feet will feel on Sunday morning, though.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;now I gotta find a purse (or clutch) to match +_+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;dress shoes, that is!<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be attending two weddings this year (AFAIK!) \ud83d\ude42 One is this Saturday and the other in October for Sheryl &amp; Peter&#8216;s big day! But back to the shoes&#8230; I looked at my shoe closet and I have NOTHING to wear for this Sunday! I have like, 4 types of minimalist running  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2011\/03\/30\/irony-of-buying-shoes\/\"> read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[349,348,347],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2576,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions\/2576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}