# your shoes! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 27, 2002, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-shoes/145235 "2002-12-27T21:34:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-shoes/145235/61 "2002-12-30T20:32:47Z")
Size 13 Skechers. Black and Tan, very comfortable. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-shoes/145235/62 "2002-12-30T20:35:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JessEnigma \* > \*\*There’s gum stuck to the sole, along with cotton stuck to the gum because I couldn’t get it off and having my shoe stick to the ground every few steps was annoying. > \*\* If you place an ice cube directly on the gum for a minute or so it will become hard and brittle for a few seconds after you remove the cube, and you can break or chip it off where it is stuck during that time. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-shoes/145235/63 "2002-12-30T20:39:00Z")
English tan Cole Haan, split-toe oxfords. Five eyelets, brown shoe strings. Thin leather sole. The most comfortable shoes I’ve ever had. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-shoes/145235/64 "2002-12-30T20:40:33Z")
Sorry, size 10 ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-shoes/145235/65 "2002-12-30T21:13:02Z")
Black leather Mary Janes, with a chunky 3 inch heel. My faves. Dark grey socks. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-shoes/145235/66 "2002-12-30T22:16:19Z")
Oh, I hope Stinkpalm is here somewhere. I’m wearing very sexy size 6 caramel colored, faux alligator, peek-a-boo toe, ankle straps with a narrow (but not stilleto) 4" heel. I got them from Victoria’s Secret. They give the illusion of perfectly adorable feet (which I don’t have). Women have stopped elevators to tell me they love these shoes. Complete strangers tell me they want to buy them off my feet. I should have bought three pair. ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-shoes/145235/67 "2002-12-30T22:19:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\*I used to have a pair of clogs when I was a kid, and I spent a lot of time on the farm where my best friend grew up. Does that count? 🙂 \*\* I got a pair when I was in Appledorn (sp?). My friends told me that a lot of people still use them for gardening after sealing them. it’s true, they are pretty comfy out in the yard. now if only I could get my husband to stop laughing at me… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CasperQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@CasperQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CasperQ)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-shoes/145235/68 "2002-12-30T23:03:49Z")
on the opposite end of the **scablet** spectrum, I’ve got on white size 6 wide keds, the leather kind not the canvas. Nubby white scrunchy socks. And this high-fashion ensemble allows me to stand at a whopping 5’3"!! ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-shoes/145235/69 "2002-12-31T00:20:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bad News Baboon \* > \*\*I got a pair when I was in Appledorn (sp?). > My friends told me that a lot of people still use them for gardening after sealing them. > > it’s true, they are pretty comfy out in the yard. > > now if only I could get my husband to stop laughing at me… > 🙂 \*\* Apeldoorn, but that’s OK. Wow, not exactly as rock and roll as Amsterdam. I take it you know some people there? 🙂 I wouldn’t say “a lot of people” still use them. They’re mostly a tourist gadget these days, but most farmers and some avid gardners still wear them. ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-shoes/145235/70 "2002-12-31T04:04:02Z")
I’m wearing a pair of pluggers. Sometimes called thongs (which is quite different to a g-string thankyouverymuch), my pluggers are black and white and made of cheap rubber. I bought them last week for the grand sum of $2.40 from the local supermarket. They hurt my feet and leave black rubber marks between my toes and a funny flip-flopping sound when I walk in them. On the beach, pluggers flick hot sand up my shorts and all over the people walking behind me. They’re also dangerous to drive while wearing, in case the rubber gets caught on the car floor while moving your foot to the brake pedal. I have a very comfortable $70 pair of Colorado leather sandals by the front door, but I’m sticking to pluggers this summer. Why? ‘Cos they’re so frikkin’ cool. Thongs scream, “I spent 2 bucks on my footwear, and I’m darn proud of it!” Thongs are the footwear of the yobbo, the derro and the bogan, so there is a gleeful irony in young white collar workers wearing the least-fashionable, cheapest footwear available. Plus, they’re _sooo_ Aussie, which is always cool. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-shoes/145235.md?page=3)