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[thejunipertree]

am in mourning. Full scale, wailing and gnashing my teeth. Rending my hair.

My favourite shoes broke today, whilst out grocery shopping with my mother and the Engineer.

Well. Actually, just the one broke. But, one is bad enough. Especially when it was the goodone. I had recently fixed the left shoe, whose upper was separating from the sole and heel. The right shoe had no damage to it, whatsoever. And that was the one which broke today.

The strap (these shoes are Mary Janes, Demonia black vinyl bubble toe platform Mary Janes to be specific) snapped.

>:O

So, not only did I have the dubious pleasure of finishing the marketing (as well as carting all the grocery bags into the house) with a flappy shoe, but it also had to be my favourite shoes which I had only fixed a week or so ago.

This is the second pair of these I've been through. The first pair were bought two years or so ago, when Richard was visiting me. They died the death of upper leaving the lower during a trip to New York to see Nick Cave in concert. This second pair I special ordered from another store (they're discontinued) and they originally broke about a year ago. The opposite shoe, mind you, from the first pair. If I had kept the first pair, I could have had a complete set and no worries!

After the second pair originally broke, I didn't throw them out. I kept them on my shoe shelf in my bedroom in the hopes that one day I would find glue strong enough to fix them. Which I did. And fixed them I did, last week. Then this bitch of a strap has to break on me.

I have a whole bag full of shoes that need to be repaired. All of them platform Mary Janes (are you sensing a pattern here?). I just need to find a shoe repair store now. Two pairs have snapped buckles (one of these, the red and black Mary Janes, I had only worn twice before the buckle broke on me). And another two pairs have broken straps.

*cry*




I can't believe I just wrote an entire entry about SHOES. I think I need an intervention.

Comments

[death4breakfast.livejournal.com]

I can relate to the shoe angst, I've lived through that sort of thing myself with a favorite pair of boots.

My advice: *Do* find a shoe repair place. Look in the yellow pages and go. If it's all bright and new and shiny and clean, watch out. A decent shoe repair place should look like they actually work on shoes there. It should Smell like a place where they work on shoes, with a smell of old leather, and a bit of a chemically smell of the stuff that they use on the shoes. You want a place that has a bit of character.

For the stuff that you're talking about, it shouldn't even run you too much. Even getting my boots completely resoled only ran me forty, forty-five bucks or so, and getting something like a strap or buckle replaced will generally wind up being under ten bucks, certainly under twenty. And it's a lot cheaper than getting new shoes.