Advantages: very comfortable, wide colour variety Disadvantages: don't look cool and pretty at all, so good for home wear
I saw loads of people wearing those ugly slippers and I resisted that I won?t spend a penny on them. This was the summer of 2008. Then my friends asked me to order them loads of different Crocs shoes because in the country where they live they are not yet available or costs much more. So I ordered them about 15 different types and sizes of Crocs sandals, shoes and even boots and I sent them. Their madness for Crocs made me curious and I ordered myself a pair of Crocs for winter. It is a closed one with leather top but similar to Cayman in its form. It doesn?t look very nice but it was one of my most comfortable shoes. I wear them only at home. It supports well my legs so standing in it for hours is still very comfortable for my feet. This was the spring of 2009. As the weather was warmer and warmer I had to order myself a Cayman to ...
Advantages: comfortable, better fitting shoes at reasonable prices Disadvantages: limited range, most of them are quite ugly
First let me explain ?scone shoes.? When I first ordered shoes from the Shoe Tailor, experts in wider-fitting shoes, I measured my feet incorrectly and found that the only shoes in their catalogue that would fit me were their widest, ugliest, most orthopaedic, brown, granny shoes: the type you might wear to go out with your friends for a scone, in your later years. Hence my friends groaningly called them my ?scone shoes? and walked several yards behind me on the way to the pub every night.
They were very comfy! However, they fell apart after a couple of years of continuous wear, and once gone, same said friends took me shopping to some ?proper? shoe shops in Glasgow and I never once consulted my Shoe Tailor catalogue again.
That was about eight years ago, and although I?m not exactly old and doddery yet, I am finding shoes to be ...
molelover 06.10.2004
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Advantages: well thought out characters and a nice story Disadvantages: likely to make you cry
I first read Ballet Shoes when I was eight. It was the first of Noel Streatfield's books I'd read, and it remains my favourite. I put it away during my teenage years and forgot about it until Christmas 2007 when I watched the BBC adaptation with Emma Watson.
I went to Indonesia and got the film on knock-off DVD, and immediately after watching I rang home to get my parents to order me a copy. It was a great welcome home.
The book opens with 'Garnie' moving into a huge mansion, filled with fossils. She and her nurse (Nana) are moving in with her uncle. You don't really get any of their story until one day her uncle Matthew arrives home from a trip with a package, containing of all things... a baby! They agree to take the baby and name her Pauline.
Once Pauline is a bit older, and Great Uncle Matthew (GUM) is away again, another package ...
