Day 10- Perfect Boots

Here we have the at least the fourth pair of what to the untrained eye appear to be the same exact boots. They are a fraction of the boot subsection in my closet that has caused me to get to the back door in two different boots more than once. In my world there is an infinite search for these boots or something close to them. The search does not end when I locate them, locating them simply means there will be one more pair of not quite perfect "Perfect Boots" in my closet. I say not quite perfect, because likely the sole is too thick, the sole too thin, they are too narrow, they are too wide, they do not stay up or they melt like the Wicked Witch of the West if the humidity gets too high, god forbid a drizzle occurs AND you might only imagine what snow and salt will do to them. By the time the are literally thread bare garbage, with the lining hanging out of the hole in the back where the heal used to be, guess what I am over the short comings and love, love, love them but they are discontinued, therefore no longer available. After the first cheap pair of  "I love these, I can wear them every day, with anything, even at the beach in July (not kidding), black knee high, perfect boots, boots" fell apart because they are constructed of some kind of man made fuzzy stuff (which may actually be related to tissue paper) I was on a mission to find a decent pair. Boots made out of something slightly more durable than cardboard would be spectacular. Plenty that look similar out there on the net, really not hard to find at all, but they seemed to be either $25 pairs (that start to disintegrate as soon as you remove the plastic wrap) and $600 pairs (that can actually manage to look down their own nose at plastic wrap... also at me because I can only dream of being in their tax bracket) and shockingly enough NOTHING in between. Finally I found these in winter 2012, they were not super cheap or crazy expensive, given that they have an 8 comfort rating and will be likely worn until I can see my sock straight through bottom totally worth the price still "you get what you pay for"... I must not have paid quite enough...so this is how they roll...

*Wear  ?? (July 2013)
Circa Jan. 2012

Cost  *90

Comfort 8

Pair 12

(As of 6-19-18 MIA, Guessing Trashed) 

Day 9- No I Was Not Plotting A Career Change

Now these are some boots! They are not now, nor do I believe they ever were in style but about 10 years ago I "had to have them". There was no way to creatively justify the cost because in all seriousness what would be the "occasion" for these boots? Never the less I had to have them and after a few days of thinking about them low and behold I was given money for my Birthday and told not to spend it on bills or anything I would buy for myself...JACKPOT! I ran right back to the store (Hot Topics I believe) and bought the boots. I have searched for the appropriate occasion to wear them but never really found it. I have called them goth, I have worn them on Halloween, I have even tried to pass them off as rain boots, still in reality they are simply an exercise in creativity because it take s a lot of creativity to conjure an outfit worthy of these boots that does not look trashy! In spite of the fact that there is no practical purpose for them, it takes a brave 40 year old to wear them out in public. Problem: every time I wear them the whole platform bottom falls off causing a trip to the shoe repair shop and I keep paying to have them fixed, because I find them fascinating...besides anything that looks like this and still gets a 6 for comfort rating deserves to go on for at least another 10 years!

Wear *6 *(July 2013)
Circa 2003

Cost  *60

Comfort 6

Pair 11

Day 8-Straight From Italy

Nothing like getting VM saying "You need to respond to this message ASAP, because I am shopping in Italy and I don't have your shoe size. If you don't respond soon I won't be here anymore". Sweet Mother Of Kangaroo Feet! When was this message left? What if I missed her? What if she is back on the ship? What if she doesn't have service and can't pick up her messages?
Yep not even kidding! All that stress over someone else picking out an unknown shoe, in an unknown style, in a foreign land. Well all that stress was not for nothing :)
My dear friend returned from Italy with this little gifty for me in her suitcase (I believe it was around Christmas 2011). These little cuties have been worn twice, get a comfort rating of 6 and cause no blisters! If you have been following this experiment you have seen some of the things I have put my feet in and can likely appreciate how excited I am about shoes that don't blister anything!

Wear 2 *(July 2013)
Circa Christmas 2011
Cost  Gift
Comfort 6
Pair 10