My life in shoes
on Sheila Ash (India), 14/Feb/2018 03:16, 34 days ago
At first there were a pair of handmade crocheted booteesSurpassed, for the photographer hired to capture my christening, by white round toed Mary Jane’s.At 5 I was in red leather Clarks Joyance‘school’ sandals, T barred with a pattern of holesAt 11 I chose white leather moccasins with 1in rubber heels.My very own ballet shoes replaced the shared black canvas gym pump pile that fell out of primary school cupboardsA pair of flaming flamenco red dance shoes with Tone King taps brought colour to my cheeksThe elegance of strappy sparkling gold“Strictly” ballroom heels to spin in.But the true pleasure was playing out in the wet and mud in Wellington boots.Disco nights in Mod white leather knee high Go-Go bootsmock André Courreges, no ‘Pretty Woman’ Cuissarde over the knee boots for me,No Dr Martens either, instead the black and white canvassof American baseball boots and sneakers.I klomped around in wooden Scholl’sCraving the comfort of my Birkenstocks skinBeachcombing in my jelly shoesSlipping lately into Oakley‘jangles’ to flip flop my way bravely to bare feet.I loitered in Loafers, ran in Desert boots and Reebok PumpsProudly polished my Charles Jourdan brogues.I suffered wide fit Van Dal’s for work – a token gesture to office conformityPreferring my riding boots, their Cuban heels, my Moon boots in the snow.Today I live in a rainbow MerrellsBoots, shoes and sandalsComfort from first to lastslipper of my evening.© Sheila Ash, 2018ashramblings