Only worn once
These shoes were toxic!* (image: carolita johnson)
While packing my stuff in preparation for moving to my new apartment, I found these. Shame on me. I bought them for an occasion on which I felt I had to absolutely look chic. Mainly because I had been given about four thousand dollars worth of clothes to wear by a designer I worked for, and none of my shoes were worthy of the outfit! Needless to say, they’ve only been worn once! What I spent on them doesn’t bear pronouncing. Not before lunch—I’ll just lose my appetite. And even more to my chagrin, they were painful within minutes (of course they didn’t hurt at Barney’s, where I bought them!). I should be whipping myself with them as a penitence!
Lesson of the day: don’t do as I did. I should have worn my Converse All-Stars, or my jellies.
- note the pained grimace on the “newyorkette skull of approval” for toxic fashion logo.
September 29th, 2006 at 7:13 pm
If the actual shoes are as fine as they are in your sketch, they were worth the money. I’ve had painfully gorgeous (purple) shoes. I kept them on and my feet reluctantly adapted. They (the shoes) are worn out now.
Actually, ‘shoes’ is a really strange word.
September 29th, 2006 at 7:21 pm
And I think it should be “Worn only once.” “Only worn once” means you “only wore them” on that one occasion, as if you might have done more with them than just put them on (that one time).
October 4th, 2006 at 9:18 pm
I did a cartoon about the same thing. Drives me nuts. Men would never put up with this!
http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=csmfz&uc_full_date=20060921