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What will you be wearing on your feet this spring/summer?

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hunkermunker · 12/03/2006 21:19

Help me with ideas Grin

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harpsichordcarrier · 12/03/2006 21:20

two very small yaks
if I can find them

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kikidee · 12/03/2006 21:21

I will mostly be wearing Birkenstocks. Boring but perfect for walking. Also quite fancy some flat bronze/gold ballet pump type things.

FrannyandZooey · 12/03/2006 21:22

God I love flip flops but I really shouldn't wear them as they are v bad for my feet. I have some canvas dolly shoes which are cute, just bought some with ribbon ties, and my silver ballet shoes from last year will be called into service again also.

harpsichordcarrier · 12/03/2006 21:22

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bunny3 · 12/03/2006 21:26

I love my birkies but am also going to buy a pair of wedges/espadrilles from Clarkes. They have a closed toe which is ideal for me as I have a gammy toenail and like to keep it hidden. Cant link to the clarkes site but they are called "Grease". I also have a pair of tan clogs which I love to wear with flared jeans for a bit of flowerpower chic.

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hunkermunker · 12/03/2006 21:27

\link{http://www.funkyflipflops.com\Just remembered this website!}

I have odd feet (surprising to none of you, I bet) - different sizes, bony and narrow (sound gorgeous, right?!) so I find buying shoes really hard. I can't keep mule-type things on my feet - always have to scrunch my toes up and it makes them ache. Need a strap round my ankle with sandals.

Would like a new pair of boots for now too really.

Do like those from JTBM, HC. Pretty colour.

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alexsmum · 12/03/2006 21:29

the same birkenstocky,brown,walking sandals that i've been wearing evry summer for the past nth years!

harpsichordcarrier · 12/03/2006 21:30

too late for boots, hunker, get real
your feet sound lovely btw
what about some espadrilles?

Tortington · 12/03/2006 21:32

flip flops. the free ones from the back of a magazine usually

motherinferior · 12/03/2006 21:33

Harpsi, it is bitterly cold. Ideal boot-wearing weather.

I suspect I shall investigate the option of some new trainers. I may feel obliged to wear Ethical Trainers (the Converse style ones made with non-sweatshop labour) to go with my Ethical Pants.

harpsichordcarrier · 12/03/2006 21:36

nonono MI it is March and therefore SPRING
I wore my flip flops today
were they ethical though? maybe I should go and ask them their views on factory farming or something
MI I have difficulty imagining you in converse. I picture you in Jesus Sandals, like every other nun I have ever known

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hunkermunker · 12/03/2006 21:36

Don't barf at my feet, HC!

Actually, you may. I need to bathe them in breastmilk or something. Need them soft and luvverly for summer.

Do want boots though. But appreciate it's going to be sandal weather v soon. Espadrilles...aren't they made of raffia or somesuch nonsensical material?

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hunkermunker · 12/03/2006 21:37

Ethical pants?!

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hoxtonchick · 12/03/2006 21:37

campers. or birkies.

alexsmum · 12/03/2006 21:37

kind of on the same subject....
tried to get ds1 some wellies today and there was not a welly to be had.
the clarks shop had a bout 2 pairs but hundreds of pairs of sandals and doodles.
now explain this to me.If their shoes are supposed to be fitted , then why do they have summer shoes in when it's snowing outside?
How can you buy them in advance when you don't know what size they will be in the summer?
and i know that come june, the shop will be full of winter boots.grrrrrr.

motherinferior · 12/03/2006 21:38

My flipper-feet (they're small, flat, narrow at the ankle and broad across the toes) are going nowhere near a pair of flipflops at the moment.

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hunkermunker · 12/03/2006 21:38

Alexsmum, I thought exactly the same thing re Doodles in Clarks today.

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harpsichordcarrier · 12/03/2006 21:39

at MI's flipper feet
am a foot snob
what about campers hunker? they rock actually.

motherinferior · 12/03/2006 21:39

I have noted on another thread my Ethical Pants, which are perfectly normal-looking skimpy pants but made from organic fair-traded cotton and therefore Pants for Smug LiberalPinkos.

alexsmum · 12/03/2006 21:40

it's insane hunkermunker and it makes me really angry!Angry

georginarf · 12/03/2006 21:41

well it was going to be Campers for me but have bought 2 pairs of shoes in 2 days - boots (cheap), and a bee-yootiful pair of evening/concert shoes for £100

so no money left for shoes for a very long time. Am in love with the evening shoes though so I don't care

motherinferior · 12/03/2006 21:41

Alexsmum, cheapo shops will have wellies. Lovely ones in pretty colours.

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hunkermunker · 12/03/2006 21:41

I have no clue what you're talking about.

Sandals, I understand. (Your toes show)

Boots, ditto. (Come up your leg a bit - iyswim Blush)

Shoes, yep. (more open on top of foot than boots, ankle-length or lower)

Mules, just about (though can be confused with clogs, I suppose). (No back)

Anything else, you may as well be speaking Russian. I know nothing.

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Earlybird · 12/03/2006 21:42

Will watch this thread with interest for good tips, as I usually finally get in the mood to shop for shoes late in the season when stocks are severely depleted....and thus end up with nothing very nice.

Am being forward thinking though in the area of getting my feet ready for display, and have booked in a (first ever) session at the chiropodist on Tuesday.

HC - don't know what campers are. What do they look like?