The Devout Life

*posted by Hilary Jane Margaret at 2007-04-18 15:43:54*

On to more important topics.

Shoes.

(Male readers may want to turn the page and go on to read New Oxford Review or LifeSite or something important like that.)

I've been home sick the last couple of days and I have learned that there is a limit even to my ability to net-surf the political blogs without my brain starting to melt.

I have discovered, however, that it is possible to treat the internet like a fashion magazine/catalogue. I have never been a big one for online shopping (no credit card: mama didn't raise no fools!) but that has all changed.

I often find it very frustrating to shop in modern shops. I can never find anything that is worth the absolutely stupefying amounts of money they are asking. Everything is held together with serging and staples. And for some reason that defies comprehension, the '70's are back in style. I'm afraid I find it very difficult to go to a mall and hide the look of disgust at all the bellbottoms and disco rubbish I see in shops. I like to tell shopgirls that "I remember the 70's and really, I can't tell you how happy I am that they are over and will never return." Platform shoes! Heavens!

Well, yesterday, between blowing my nose and whimpering to my roommates about my aches, I found that you can still buy real clothes, or more specifically, you can buy patterns for real clothes. Or you can just buy them straight up. Really really beautiful stuff. And I don't own a serger.

As always the trouble with making one's own clothes is footwear. Unless one is very ambitious, making one's own shoes is an undertaking beyond the capacities of even the most enthusiastic.

Well, have I got the solution for you. Allow me to introduce Fugawee's

and their shoes...oh! their lovely shoes! such lovely, lovely shoes...