Shoes I have loved

This is a light post, but tonight I thought of two pairs of shoes that I dearly wanted in years past. They are:

1998

2003

I can't say why I never got them, and now the admiration has faded. I wonder if that would generally happen if I/we were to always deny ourselves for long enough?

And then lately I did get two new pairs of shoes. One is my beloved Birkenstock Gizeh. They come in narrow sizes and I can literally wear them every day for all summer months. It's my fifth pair because the cork doesn't last forever. Will my style hold for another decade?

I'm a little bit proud that I bargained with a shopkeeper in Steamboat, and not on a bazaar, for their last pair of blue Oxfords. Apropos, I had wanted a pair of Oxford shoes since 2011, when I saw a grey pair at Nordstroms.

 (2004, 2008, 2010, 2012) 2015

2015