As I mentioned below, today's high temp was 20-something. It was definitely a bundle up kind of day.
Believe it or not, I spotted not one but several women at Wal-Mart doing their shopping without the benefit of hosiery.
There was a lovely lady in salwar/kameeze wearing backless mules. Okay...
Then there was the woman with her bare feet jammed into backless fleece-lined clogs. Okay...
But there were two women walking around in winter jackets wearing rubber flip-flops on obviously bare feet. My toes hurt just looking at them.
Then there was this kid of maybe 15 or 16, who seemed to be a nice enough suburban white kid, trying to project the hip-hop vibe. He started with a white ball cap worn backwards and a nice royal blue polo-type shirt under a vastly oversized sleeveless t-shirt with an appropriately in-your-face kind of graphic on front. He had on clunky white athletic shoes with blue trim that matched the shirt. Not bad. Then there were the pants -- white warm-up pants with a blue stripe down the side of each leg, and they actually coordinated nicely with the rest of the outfit. But they were so oversized that the crotch was somewhere around his knees, and the elastic in back drooped below the point of no return, if you get my drift. He was walking around trying to discreetly hold them up at the sides, which got kind of tenuous after he bought a soda and only had one hand for the pants.
Well, all of us probably fell prey to some sort of fashion faux pas when we were that age. I'll probably never run into him again, but I hope he figures things out. Except for the fit of the pants, he didn't look half bad.
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Barbara -= All those Wal-Mart ladies are my cousins. I haven't worn anything but sandals so far this winter - except one day it snowed and I had to don the Vasques to get to work. Bah humbug on shoes, as you well know, will be on my gravestone.
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