Goodbye, Boots
Dec. 20th, 2009 12:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dcseainWhen i was 11, my parents bought me a pair of blue boots. I donned them again today to clear the car 3 times. When i came in the last time, and removed the right boot, i saw white where there should have been navy. Alas, the plastic is dead. A twenty-seven year run for boots is pretty good. I'll miss them. They've served me well.
They got me through years of sledding and hiking. And walking to work, especially in my time in Boston, where shoes lived at my desk, and the boots are what i wore outside from when it started snowing until most of the snow was gone, so a good 5 months a year up there. It was there that CRK informed me that they are snowmobile boots. All i know is no one else in the neighborhood or at school had ones like them. Knowing our shopping habits back then, they probably came from Zayre or Kmart.
I talked to my mom today. Told her about the boots giving up the ghost. She doesn't remember them, and was surprised they still fit. My feet have been very large for a very long time. I wonder if she's forgotten travelling to the Tiny Shoe Box in Dumfries, VA to buy me shoes as they were the only shop around that had men's size 13 in stock back then - at $60-75 a pair. The cost of my shoes back then is part of why i think nothing of spending $80-100 or so for shoes today. Today, of course, most shops stock 13s.
When i was in Boston, i was being fitted for shoes at the Lord & Taylor, and the salesman - probably about a decade older than me - commented that people my age and younger had feet 2-4 sizes larger than our parents, and that 11-13 was normal in my age group. Of my partners through the years, the nearest in size to me wore a 9.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tomhundleyrn is an 8.5. Kevin/Midian and Brad were 9s. CRK - 7.5 i think. Me feet are larger than most of my age-peers still to this day. I've met many a bit younger than me - 10 or so years - who have feet as large as, or larger than, mine.
Anyway, I will miss these boots, as they have kept me warm, comfy, and dry for most of my life. May the next pair prove to be at least half as durable.
They got me through years of sledding and hiking. And walking to work, especially in my time in Boston, where shoes lived at my desk, and the boots are what i wore outside from when it started snowing until most of the snow was gone, so a good 5 months a year up there. It was there that CRK informed me that they are snowmobile boots. All i know is no one else in the neighborhood or at school had ones like them. Knowing our shopping habits back then, they probably came from Zayre or Kmart.
I talked to my mom today. Told her about the boots giving up the ghost. She doesn't remember them, and was surprised they still fit. My feet have been very large for a very long time. I wonder if she's forgotten travelling to the Tiny Shoe Box in Dumfries, VA to buy me shoes as they were the only shop around that had men's size 13 in stock back then - at $60-75 a pair. The cost of my shoes back then is part of why i think nothing of spending $80-100 or so for shoes today. Today, of course, most shops stock 13s.
When i was in Boston, i was being fitted for shoes at the Lord & Taylor, and the salesman - probably about a decade older than me - commented that people my age and younger had feet 2-4 sizes larger than our parents, and that 11-13 was normal in my age group. Of my partners through the years, the nearest in size to me wore a 9.
tomhundleyrn is an 8.5. Kevin/Midian and Brad were 9s. CRK - 7.5 i think. Me feet are larger than most of my age-peers still to this day. I've met many a bit younger than me - 10 or so years - who have feet as large as, or larger than, mine.Anyway, I will miss these boots, as they have kept me warm, comfy, and dry for most of my life. May the next pair prove to be at least half as durable.
