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Arousing Shoes Tomorrow (almost)

Saturday 6th January, 2007 @ 8.52pm GMT Europe/London by Pandammonium

So, I have a dress fitting on Tuesday, and I’m told I need my wedding underwear and my wedding shoes for it, so they can adjust the bust and the length as necessary. So I went out today (awfully crowded in the shops. Is it the January sales? Is it Saturday? Oh, yes and yes. That’ll explain that then) to look for wedding shoes in the Grafton Centre. I thought Debenhams would sell them. They didn’t, although they did have bridesmaid dresses (no shoes to go with them either) and fancy hats (too many fancy hats), so you would have thought they’d have some suitable shoes, but they didn’t. I looked in all the normal shoe shops, but they just have shiny gold or silver ones, with or without sparkly bits which you can keep, thank you very much. And let’s not even look at how high the heels are!

I went to BHS, not expecting them to have any, but they did, on the first floor! The flat ballet pump style ones were too flat, even for me. The heeled ones weren’t too ludicrously high, so I popped a particularly pointy pair on my feet, in my correct size, not expecting them to go on because I have wide feet and so I have to go up a size normally to get the right width fitting, but then they’re too long, but go on they did, and they weren’t too horrendously tight, until I’d had them on a while, when they became quite nasty, so I tried on another similar pair, which were a little better, but still a bit too pointy. I don’t have pointy-shoe-shaped feet, you see, from never being allowed pointy shoes when I was younger, like everyone else wore. There was a pair, a plainer pair - the two I tried on were a little sparkly, but not too horrendous, and they certainly weren’t silver sparkly. More tastefully sparkly. Anyway, I digress. Where was I? Oh yes. There was a plainer pair, which were more square-toed, which were much more comfortable than the other two. I can walk in them, just about, and they were a lot less than I thought they’d cost, so I thought I might get them. Another bride-to-be was also trying on these shoes. She was also dithering and having trouble finding somewhere selling shoes. She said she’d heard Robert Sayle were good, so I asked the till girl to put the shoes behind the counter for me while I went to Robert Sayle; she acquiesced. Robert Sayle didn’t have any wedding shoes at all, but I did bump into Duncan, and we had a nice chat, so it wasn’t a totally wasted trip. I went back to BHS, and purchased the shoes there and then.

Good old BHS, I say.

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