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Why did she make fun of my sandals? they're not THAT ugly!

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expatinscotland · 05/03/2008 00:52

this is an American link because I can't get Schuh's to work as a link, but I got these here in the UK from Schuh.

of course, my sister laughed her arse off and said they were fug and my mother did one of her sighs again.

thesearenice

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snowleopard · 05/03/2008 13:19

So did you like my link? Did ya?

yorkshirepudding · 05/03/2008 13:20

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snowleopard · 05/03/2008 13:20

Now they are cool, pudding. Fantastic.

expatinscotland · 05/03/2008 13:21

yes, but you won't see mine because they are not ugly .

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jumpingbeans · 05/03/2008 13:23

bloody hell, you could paint your nails while wearing those,handy or what

yorkshirepudding · 05/03/2008 13:25

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Miaou · 05/03/2008 13:31

hmm I'm not exactly in love with them, but they're 100x better than the ones your sister suggested. I wouldn't do tights and skirt with them but I would do socks and jeans.

But then what do I know, I wear purple dm mary janes and my sandals look like jesus sandals

And also they should be looking forward to enjoying your company, not being fashion police

choccypig · 05/03/2008 13:34

Haven't read the whole thread, but those sandals are SUPER.

They look like you could actually run in them, and not get sweaty, and not get blisters.

DualCycloneCod · 05/03/2008 13:35

you have form for bad shoes expat

you have reoffended.

Miaou · 05/03/2008 13:36

(except hobbits don't wear sandals, pudding )

yorkshirepudding · 05/03/2008 13:54

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Oblomov · 05/03/2008 14:02

Expat, thay are totally gross. Pregnancy does not excuse fogging of the the part of the brain that relates to style. Well, not to this extent anyway .
ha-ha-ha-ha-ha

saltire · 05/03/2008 14:04

Weeelllll they are nice, and ideal for wearing around Brigadoon, you know heather, moors etc, but I don't really think they ideal for Madrid,a nd definately not with skirts!
Never mind that though, I noticed the word "pregnant" in one of your posts. Did I miss an announcement? Really hope it all goes well this time

Oblomov · 05/03/2008 14:04

Threadworm & I have totally square feet, but even I wouldn't wear those.

expatinscotland · 05/03/2008 14:22

Miaou, it's a bit of an inside joke in our family. See, my mother and her sister had a French mother and a Mexican-American father and they both have impeccable taste in clothes, furnishings, well, just in life in general.

You go to their home and feel warm and welcome and eat tasty food, but you can't help noticing their house looks fabulous and so do they.

My sister is very Latina in style.

I have always been the hippy dippy and cursed with the fashion sense of Whoppi Goldberg.

So they never fail to wonder what I'll turn up wearing.

I remember when my sister and I were teens, once we were all going to go to out somewhere, I think it was dinner and a party at someone's house - they're always doing stuff like that - and my sister refused to go until I changed my shoes.

I was wearing some old turquoise leather ballet slippers I'd worn a hole in the sole in at dance class and rolled gaffa tape over. With a tie dyed skirt and a huge black top I'd fitted onto my form with safety pins - it was the 80s!

I thought I looked great! She thought I looked like a bucket of sick.

At least I wasn't wearing my banana yellow parachute trousers!

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Miaou · 05/03/2008 14:24

oh lololol expat at the dinner party outfit

OK if you are fine with the teasing, I will take my indignant elsewhere ... (but you have my solidarity as a fellow anti-fashionista )

FioFio · 05/03/2008 14:27

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expatinscotland · 05/03/2008 14:28

C'mon, siblings tease each other. I take a pop at her all the time for things, that's for sure. She has truly awful, trashy, lowest common denominator taste in films and her sense of humour is on par with a rat.

My mother didn't laugh, she just inherited this very French way of expressing disdain without having to say a word. I can never do it myself, but even if I'm talking on the phone with her and she heaves that sigh I can picture how her face is looking. It's all in the eyes.

I also tease my mother relentlessly for abandoning projects and hiring them out and for hoarding.

And Auntie Lucie, well, her legs look awfully graceful in all those heels, but you should see the state of her feet!

They look like retired ballerina feet - not pretty.

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Blu · 05/03/2008 14:29

I immediately look like Lily Savage if i put heels on.

Well, without the tits and hair.

So, like a man, really.

We could start a variety act, Fio.

Oblomov · 05/03/2008 14:29

Yoooo-hoooooo EXPAT
Check the other threads.....
You are being summoned/called/talked about.

FioFio · 05/03/2008 14:30

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MrsJackJohnson · 05/03/2008 14:34

bad bad bad ... sure they are comfy though..

JeremyVile · 05/03/2008 14:35

Oh my, they're lovely

(Just off to rinse my eyes out with Fairy....)

hifi · 05/03/2008 14:50

they are a bit lesbian chic.

WallOfSilence · 05/03/2008 14:57

How do I put this nicely....

Is there, like, an ugly shoe gene in your family or something?