Thursday, July 02, 2009

Nostalgia and Comfortable Shoes...

Despite our gender differences my brother and I wore the same kind of shoes until the age of five.

They looked like this:

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My mom called them our Christopher Robin shoes and I had pairs in navy and red while my brother had navy and white. (I’d never seen them in brown before I stole this picture off the interwebs.)

Today the memory of my Christopher Robins popped into my head, and I started to think of how versatile they were. The leather shoes with a hard rubber sole could be worn with shorts, dresses, jeans, you name it, AND they were comfy to boot. With this thought I scoured the internet for a grown-up-sized pair in brown, but came up empty. You would think *maybe* Clark’s or Born or the like would have something similar, but NOTHING.

So dear readers, if in any of your shoe-shopping escapades you come across something similar to the picture above (in adult sizes), will you send the store name, brand name, shoe name, link, or etc. my way? All I managed to find today was their real name: English Sandals.

6 comments:

LPC said...

Those are really adorable. I would not like to wear my childhood shoes. Brown lace up oxfords. Although I suppose in my Doc Marten phase I got pretty close.

Anonymous said...

http://www.mary-janeshoes.com/muffyses/muffysenglishsandal.html

Looky here.

gudnuff said...

The pics in that link are just wrong. So wrong.

Anastasia said...

LPC - I know, they *are* adorable, aren't they? Doc Marten phase?

Anon - Yes, but I really wanted them in brown. I could do Navy, but 'Muffy' apparently ran out in size 6 1/2-7.

Gudnuff - Have you noticed my url? I loved the link. And thanks so much for your recent email. I am going to reply to it soon! I promise! I almost sent you an 'unpublishable' story the other day.

PT-LawMom said...

I wore these in NZ as part of our mandatory uniform requirement. Ugh. Have you tried Brucettes?

Anonymous said...

http://www.shopstyle.com/browse?fts=mary+jane+flat

Closest I found:
http://www1.macys.com/catalog/product/index.ognc?ID=308314