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In case you’ve been doubting my girlieness…

Published 1 Aug 2005

Ok, so I may not seem all that feminine to you, especially if you only know me from the JoshuaInk mailing list. After spending about an hour on the list this morning, and then transitioning back into meat-space, my husband informed me that I now “have the mouth of a soccer hooligan”. Heh heh. However, this post is sure to let the cat out of the bag that I am firmly trapped within the confines of my X chromosomes.

I am in the throes of a genuine shoe emergency and I am officially sounding the girl siren — I need help fast!

I have to fly across the country on Saturday to a wedding, which is bad enough. But this wedding is tainted by a ridiculous family feud that I refuse to be a part of, but somehow has still convinced me that I need to look good. So I did the only sensible thing, and bought kick-ass new shoes.

Here is the problem: the shoes, being primarily lime green, don’t match the dress I was planning on wearing, which turns out to be forest green. (Luckily my pantone chips are at work, or I would be seriously geeking this whole thing out right now…) So I figure, no problem, I’ll just have to find another pair of shoes. (By this I mean an additional pair of shoes— there is no way I am taking those lime green babies back. I am smiling just thinking about them.)

Exhibit 1: My kick-ass new shoes

So I spent today looking all over Old Town for shoes to go with this forest green dress. It turns out there are no shoes in this county that look good with it. Every single color I tried on clashes with it. Black won’t work, silver looked awful, and I’m not even going to mention the putridness that was white.

After coming home and spending a very sad hour trying on every combination of dresses and shoes in my closet, I decided to switch to a grey dress, which I had seen the prefect shoes for. So I went back to Old Town, only to discover that they don’t have those shoes in my size anywhere in Humboldt County. Meanwhile, Brian is really helping out by repeatedly saying that he refuses to believe that I don’t already own any shoes that I can wear to this wedding.

So it was 4:50 on Sunday before I had the brainstorm that what I really need to do is find a new dress that matches the new shoes, and all the stores were of course closing by this time. Brian is really in favor of this plan, by the way.

So basically, I am going to have to be shopping on my lunch hours every day this week until I can either find a dress or shoes. Which wouldn’t be a problem, except that I had already planned on spending my lunch hours working in order to get all the shit done that I need to do before I leave. Brian is now convinced that the lime green shoes match the dress, and is insisting that I bring them in to work and get the opinion of the girls before I go shopping.

This is all turning out to be much too ridiculous for me, and if there weren’t a distinct possibility that I am going to get both new shoes and a new dress out of this thing I’d say fuck it and just wear jeans.

OK, there is enough estrogen in the air now that I definitely can’t think straight anymore, so I’m going to go have a fruity drink and try on those shoes again…

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Commentary

goodwitch writes

Aug 1 at 06:34 PM #

ROFLMA in the supportive way that friends do…

Okay…try this…grab cool new shoes, and grab the two most likely outfits you might wear and head to a really nice shoe store. Me, I’d probably start with the forest green dress…but hey, do what feels right.

Ask the fabulous people in shoes to help you find the perfect shoe to match the outfit you most want to wear. Enjoy the expertise that flows and try to only buy one pair of shoes!

(You may wonder why I had you bring the 1st pair of shoes and the other outfit…options! A girl needs options! Now, if only you had a Nordstrom’s nearby)

Andrea writes

Aug 1 at 06:42 PM #

OMG—I would kill for a Nordstrom’s. But up here we don’t have a whole lot of options—I may be reduced to discount shoes stores in the mall, because I have exhausted most of the nice shoe stores around here. And, I am going to spend a week in West Virginia before the wedding, which has even less options, and definitely has no Nordstrom’s. :(

inguna writes

Aug 5 at 05:40 PM #

I was at Nordstrom yesterday. Trust me, you wouldn’t find any shoes that would a match forest green dress. You stand a much better chance of finding a dress of say chocolate brown or navy blue (or powder blue) to go with the shoes. My question, however, is: how come that as soon as you want to buy any item and have a specific color in mind you can NEVER find it! Meanwhile, here’s a nifty tool for matching colors: http://colormixers.com/mixers/cmr/

Andrea writes

Aug 6 at 11:45 AM #

Inguna: Good to know I wasn’t missing out on a gem at Nordstroms! And that is an awesome color mixer—it’s making some nice browns, which I always have trouble with.

I ended up finding some shoes at the mall that are an natural light brown to go with the dress, but not until after frantically buying a pair on my lunch hour that Brian declared were “the ugliest shoes I’ve ever seen you buy.” So I made him come to the mall with me to get his seal of approval.

i think they will work out—they’re not exciting, but they’re OK. I will try to jazz the outfit up with some borrowed jewelry from Natalie, who has the the biggest accessory collection of anyone on the North Coast. I will have to post a photo of the whole get-up so y’all can see what all the fuss was about… :)

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