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To every factor there is a season, and a time to every purpose. A time to weep, and a time to snigger. A time to mourn, and a time to dance. A time to buy crazy responsive shoes and a time to invest in good leather kicks.
My keep quiet, ever wise, said to me last night, “Life is too short to corrosion cheap shoes.”
He wasn’t speaking from a Carrie Bradshaw perspective, saying I should pass the equivalent of a mortgage payment on some Manolo Blahniks out of some false wisdom of entitlement.
He was saying that you only get one pair of feet in life, you depend on them every day, so you’d well-advised take care of them.
And stuffing them into second-rate shoes to save a buck is not the way to do it.
As fancy as I’ve known him, he has always splurged on good shoes—Bass, Clark’s, Bostonian.
Most recently he has been on a backlash with Earth brand shoes, which have relieved the painful foot brainwash he picked up after years of double shifts in the restaurant business.
Source: Buffalo News